Moonshots, lump-sums, ECF links and dual-use: new details emerge researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

(...) Under the proposal, Erasmus+ would have to fund the European Solidarity Corps youth volunteering scheme, as well as outbound international mobility, which was previously funded by a different EU instrument. Read EUA's reaction at bit.ly/46haVyf

‘Extreme concern’ over ‘veiled attack’ on ERC researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

Disbelief over justification for move to cut ERC head’s term researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

Commission plan to halve term of ERC president is ‘a misplaced step’, says a former head researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

Free to read: Increased submissions drive Springer Nature profit higher researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-world-…

Free to read: Researchers suggest one-a-year publication limit to address “publish or perish mania” researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-world-…

From our US coverage: Vaccine disinformation condemned after fatal CDC attack researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-usa-fe…

"The way that Europeans reconcile work & life is really different. I've felt it much easier to live in this balanced way. Research is done, but family, life, friends & socialising are a really important part of European life." Sociologist Anne-Marie Jeannet, Italy #ChooseEurope

LOTS of readers for this article we published last week

Beijing is watching how the U.S. responds to the war in Ukraine and thinking if America is not defending its European interests, surely it won't defend its interests in Taiwan or the South China Sea. youtube.com/watch?v=NIDU4N…

You know very well that Jen Psaki and the rest of us are not attacking you for praying. We’re attacking you for invoking prayer as a cynical substitute for *action*. We’re attacking you for claiming to be compassionate Christians while letting young kids regularly get slaughtered.

Chickenpox is common. Usually it is just unpleasant, but it can be severe or life threatening. A long established vaccine to prevent it will be offered to all children rather than only those who can pay. Immunity by vaccination is safer than by infection.

Over the last three years, housebuilding in London has collapsed. Molior recorded just 2,158 private starts in the first half of 2025, around 5% of London’s (low) targets, and still falling. What is going on? I have posed this question to numerous specialists, most of whom

Who the fck are you at war with? Common sense?

Staggering numbers by the Lancet. Vaccinations have: - Averted 154 million deaths - For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average = 10.2 billion years total - Accounted for 40% of the observed decline in global infant mortality

Robert Redford. I loved him, and admired him—for his friendship, his fiery independence, and the way he used any platform he had to help make the world better, fairer, brighter for others.

To mark the 30th anniversary of HACKERS I caught up with director Iain Softley to chat cyber-culture, raves and a bunch of other cool hack-y stuff for Dazed ! Screenings tonight at Prince Charles Cinema / new deluxe release via 88 Films Ltd. dazeddigital.com/film-tv/articl…

EUA Director of Research & Innovation, Vinciane Gaillard warned that achieving the expressed objectives for the #ERAAct “won’t be easy”, adding that “legislators should be mindful of existing national and other frameworks, and related implementation issues”.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic –