Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With

The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists ...

Research institutions tout the value of scholarship that crosses disciplines – but academia pushes interdisciplinary researchers out

Researchers who focus on one specialty are more likely to rise through the academic ranks, even though wicked societal ...
TechCrunch

An OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card denied

Kai Chen, a Canadian AI researcher working at OpenAI who’s lived in the U.S. for 12 years, was denied a green card, according to Noam Brown, a leading research scientist at the company. In a post on X ...
MassLive

Harvard researcher’s work gives ‘hope’ for Parkinson’s. But the feds cut his funding

When Bence Ölveczky came to the U.S. from Hungary at the age of 28, it was the first place he didn’t feel like a foreigner. “This is a unique country because it’s a country of immigrants. And that’s ...
The Scientist

Rising Publication Costs Strain Researchers

Open access publishing has led to researchers paying thousands of dollars to publish their work, limiting funds for research ...
Futurism

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth

OpenAI has long published research on the potential safety and economic impact of its own technology. Now, Wired reports that the Sam Altman-led company is becoming more “guarded” about publishing ...
Nature

Hybrid working has benefits over fully in-person working — the evidence mounts

The COVID-19 pandemic upended lives around the world. And for one group of mainly higher-skilled, higher-earning office-based workers in sectors such as computing, marketing, accounting and finance, ...