Momentum is building for a Brics bloc telescope network to track transient cosmic events.
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How money, politics and technology are redefining the PhD experience in 2025
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New or starting a #STEM #PhD soon? Soak up the hindsight from those who've gone before. The best pieces of advice from @nature.com 's 2025 global PhD student survey. Expertly curated by @lindanordling.bsky.social
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Could an African ‘eBay for data’ that allows researchers to advertise their data and specimens to other users cut the continent's dependence on repositories in the Global North?
Read about ADBEx, the tool that aims to do just that. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...
It was a 15 min presentation, so didnt go into that much detail. Overall it seemed to improve consistency for reviewers, the long protocols taking days to read, usually.
AI slashes African ethics review times from months to weeks
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Good luck - I had to double check the conversion to USD twice... It sounds like a lot in Rands but it's so little.
Some relief for medical researchers hit by US federal funding cuts in South Africa:
South Africa unveils funds for research hit by US cuts www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...
South Africa to tighten oversight of foreign university staff numbers amid concern that locals are losing out on academic jobs.
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"Bioinformatics infrastructure is as essential as a lab. But it’s often invisible or taken for granted," Nicola Mulder told me this week, speaking about Africa's new bioinformatics institute, ABI.
Interview here: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...
Four entities reporting to South Africa’s science department pay their chief executives above Department of Public Service and Administration guidelines
Full story in link below
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Just over a week left to participate in Nature magazine's survey of PhD students in STEM. Active doctoral students anywhere in the world can participate, and a lucky two will win cash money! You gotta be in it to win it. Link straight to the survey: survey.walr.com/R540ZC?sampl...
Books turned spine to the wall on a shelf
South Africa's HSRC offers 90% discount on selected stock to shift costly print runs in "unprecedented" sale
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Heartbreaking story about Sudan's trashed scientific legacy.
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NIH foreign policy changes expected to cause ‘chaos’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
This week, SAMRC president Ntobeko Ntusi told me international research funders have made substantial pledges to help South Africa plug gaps caused by US grant cuts. However, the support is conditional on government matching investments. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...
Pick a disease -- any disease...
Global aid cuts raise polio resurgence fears www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
African science leaders unite to amplify continent's global voice www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...
Unbelievable quote from USDHSS. But what's believable has shifted a lot in the last months.
“the COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.”
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'They really should make a darkly satirical TV show about these absurd, degenerate, unpleasant people. Call it The White Potus.'
I love you Marina
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Any AI-related recruitment horror stories from scientists on here? Especially interested if you feel your CV/cover letter/application was rejected by an AI "sorting hat".
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US aid cuts have stopped research projects in their tracks—here's what some global health funders are doing in response. #USAID #Wellcome #EDCTP3 #aidcuts
Global health research funders rally as Trump’s cuts bite www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Super story by @sciwriabdul.bsky.social—as usual!
‘We have to become self-reliant’: African scientists respond to dramatic U.S. aid cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Science journalist friends, I am available for interviews, as are the leaders of several of these societies and the UCS leadership team. 🧪
DMs open, or whysharksmatter at gmail.
USAID has axed funding for HIV/Aids organisations across South Africa — a decision that stands to have devastating consequences for medical research, disease prevention, support for key populations and community-based testing and tracing. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Congratulations. no mean feat!
A magnifying glass over papers with charts on them
A non-final version of the African Innovation Outlook (the fourth of its kind) was published last week. It suggest some ways to fill the widening R&D data gathering gap in Africa.
"African R&D tracking falters as draft report calls for reform"
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Can someone in Kenya demystify this for me? How big is this problem of 'unlicensed/unauthorised' research and why aren't researchers getting the required licenses/authorisiations?
www.nacosti.go.ke/2025/02/17/n...
Global vaccine alliance Gavi's got a funding replenishment conference coming up in March. But fears that UK and US could scale back support come at a really bad time for Africa's ambitious plan to manufacture its own vaccines.
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Looking at #Gavi's uncertain funding outlook and wondering what will happen to the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator #AVMA launched last June...
@amref.bsky.social do you have a take?
#USAID #cuts #FDCO
