Chemists call for boycott over all-male speaker line up
Scientists are being urged to boycott a major international chemistry conference after its preliminary list of invited speakers and chairs featured no women. Read more
Scientists are being urged to boycott a major international chemistry conference after its preliminary list of invited speakers and chairs featured no women. Read more
Ministers from 12 European Union member states have urged the European Commission to reconsider its proposal to approve a new strain of genetically modified maize. Read more
The publisher of the august journal Science is to launch its first open-access journal in early 2015. The nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced the new online-only broad-discipline journal, to be called Science Advances, today ahead of the AAAS annual meeting in Chicago. Read more
Canada’s International Development Research Centre is offering a six-month, full-time science journalism award worth up to CAD$60,000 to an English-speaking Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada. The successful applicant will receive training and work as an intern in the London news room of the leading international science journal Nature before spending up to four months reporting science stories from developing countries. He or she will be at an early stage of his or her career, but with at least three years’ experience as a journalist. Read more
English universities will face significant funding cuts in the next two financial years, the government has announced. But research spending has once again been preserved. Read more
The European Union (EU) may set up a dedicated directorate within the European Space Agency (ESA) to resolve mismatches in the way the two bodies cooperate. Read more
An influential group of UK politicians has demanded that more be done to increase the number of women in scientific careers. Read more
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced that it will restore a network of moored buoys in the equatorial Pacific Ocean that serves as an early warning system for periodic and disruptive warming events, known as El Niños. Read more
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