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View‘Normality should be something we make together’

Online academia is here to stay—researchers must work to shape it, says Robert Braun

ViewConstant messaging

Europe must improve science communication to beat vaccine hesitancy

ViewRead the manual!

Earma 2021: Covid-19 has changed grant audits—but some advice is timeless, says Ellen Thompson

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Back page gossip from the 15 April issue of Research Europe

ViewWhat makes research support excellent?

Earma 2021: research managers and administrators lack well-established markers of success, says Olaf Svenningsen

ViewOne year on

What should the path from the pandemic look like for research?

ViewEurope needs a common approach to assessing research careers

A coherent but flexible framework would boost excellence across the continent, says Jan Palmowski

ViewTake this chance to reboot Europe’s R&D spending

Post-pandemic funding and policy initiatives can help end decades of stagnation, says Daniel Spichtinger

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Back page gossip from the 25 March issue of Research Europe

ViewOne year on: views of the pandemic

Special edition: Covid-19 comment from our Research Europe and Research Fortnight contributors

ViewReviewers of Covid papers play the good cop

The pandemic has turned reviewers from gatekeepers into coaches, says Serge Horbach

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Back page gossip from the 11 March issue of Research Europe

ViewSlow and unsteady

Covid-19 could spur higher education to diversify—at long last

ViewTake the European Universities Initiative to the next level

A streamlined and open programme can build on existing energy, say Dorothy Kelly and colleagues

ViewWhy Sweden chose a different path through the pandemic

Controversial policies on Covid-19 stem from a deeply rooted view of evidence, says Morten Sager

ViewSupport structures

The ERC must strive to widen participation if it is to remain relevant

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Back page gossip from the 25 February issue of Research Europe

ViewEurope’s space policy can learn from down-to-earth experience

Joined-up approach to research infrastructure should reach beyond Earth, say Katharina Cramer and her colleagues

ViewRepository of broken dreams

Failed Swiss data-sharing project has lessons for Europe, say Fritz Sager and his colleagues

ViewScience fiction reveals the dark side of impact

Cheerleaders for links between academia and society should read more novels, says Joaquín Azagra-Caro

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Back page gossip from the 11 February issue of Research Europe

ViewAfter the fact

Academia must help nip damaging populist arguments in the bud

ViewRevoke PhDs for misconduct

Pivotal scientific qualification should be guarded more carefully, says Dalmeet Singh Chawla

ViewScholarly publishing needs regulation

Creeping oligopoly threatens value, innovation and the flow of knowledge, says Jean-Claude Burgelman

ViewOut of control

Governments should trust researchers to maintain integrity

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Back page gossip from the 28 January issue of Research Europe

ViewA to-do list for research policy in 2021

This year’s themes should be openness, collaboration and early-career researchers, says Lidia Borrell-Damián

ViewResearch is a wallflower in the EU. It should be front and centre

Europe should change its mindset and narrative on what research can do, says Daniel Spichtinger

ViewDéjà vu

Academic anger is rising over the latest lockdowns

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Back page gossip from the 14 January issue of Research Europe