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Policy & Ethics

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 31-Dec-2025 04:11 ET (31-Dec-2025 09:11 GMT/UTC)

29-Oct-2025

New Wiley guidelines give researchers clear path forward in responsible AI use

Wiley has set new standards for responsible and intentional AI use, delivering comprehensive guidelines specifically designed with and for research authors, journal editors, and peer reviewers. This new guidance draws from more than 40 in-depth interviews with research authors and editors across various disciplines, as well as the company’s experts in AI, research integrity, copyright and permissions.

29-Oct-2025

AAAS launches Pathways to Policy Fellowship

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Business Announcement

AAAS has launched the Pathways to Policy Fellowship, its third immersive fellowship program, and recently welcomed its first pilot cohort. The fellowship builds on the success of the long-standing AAAS S&T Policy and Mass Media Fellowship models, which place scientists in the federal government and newsrooms around the nation respectively as a powerful way to serve society.

29-Oct-2025

New guide makes the case for the social good of librarians, editors, and other information curators

SAGE
Business Announcement

The People’s Case for Curators makes the case for “public-good curators” including librarians, editors, research integrity officers, specialist journalists. Their careful, principled work helps society find reliable information through transparent and accountable processes.

29-Oct-2025

Global science networks unite to accelerate evidence-based action on health and climate

Frontiers
Business Announcement

The Frontiers Research Foundation and the One Sustainable Health (OSH) Forum are deepening their collaboration to strengthen the global science-policy interface for health and climate – uniting researchers, institutions, and policymakers ahead of the upcoming OSH For All Forum in Lyon, 2-5 November 2025.

29-Oct-2025

The 4th Japan-India Universities Forum on 15 November

Japan Science and Technology Agency
Meeting Announcement

The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) will hold the 4th Japan-India Universities Forum in India on November 15, 2025. In the event, we will focus on promoting Japan-India brain circulation and utilization of its human resources in the fields of science, technology, and innovation. Participants from 37 universities and research institutes and related organizations, and 11 business corporations in Japan and 35 universities and research institutes in India will be gathered.

28-Oct-2025

World Health Organization’s priorities shaped by its reliance on grants from donor organisations such as the Gates Foundation

BMJ Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) priorities are being skewed by its increasing reliance on donations from organisations such as the Gates Foundation (previously known as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), which must be spent on specific health challenges favoured by the donors, suggests a study published in the journal BMJ Global Health.

Journal: BMJ Global Health

28-Oct-2025

Wetlands efficiently remove nitrogen pollution from surface water, leading to cost savings for municipalities

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wetlands are an important part of the ecological system, providing a myriad of benefits for people, wildlife, and the environment. They also serve as “nature’s kidneys,” filtering out pollutants from surface water. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign finds that wetlands along the Mississippi River Basin effectively clean up nitrogen runoff from agricultural fields. The researchers also show this can lead to significant savings for local drinking water treatment facilities.

Journal: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Funder: National Great Rivers Research and Education Center.