Pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and get results out as quickly as possible has led to weak study designs and shortened peer-review processes.
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Scientists can be asked to help find solutions during disasters. A study of how archaeologists worked on the problem of looting during the Syrian war offers lessons for science done during crisis.
Open access to COVID-19 research accelerated the development of solutions. The urgency of climate change demands the same approach, but more than half of Australian research is still behind paywalls.
The plight of live music mapped in the new survey should concern anyone looking to the return of the country’s diverse live music scene.
Antibodies are great for neutralizing viruses. But they are big and bulky. Antibody engineers are now creating smaller synthetic antibody-like molecules that may be better for fighting COVID-19.
Some of the priorities were drawn from the World Health Organisation’s Roadmap; others were expressed by researchers in and from Africa as being important to the continent’s many contexts.
The Lancet launched an independent investigation but ran into resistance from the institution, which refused to disclose the raw data, forcing the journal to retract the article.
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Program Lead, Innovation in Knowledge Communication, Curtin University
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Research Communications, Curtin University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
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Peneliti The Cochrane Collaboration; Associate Professor, School of Medicine dan Institute of Research, Development, and Innovations, International Medical University (IMU) Malaysia
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Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Antibody Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh
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Programme Manager for Grand Challenges Africa, African Academy of Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, University of New Haven
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University
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Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A&M University
