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Join the Ambassadors Coordination Group to Strengthen Community Connections for Global Impact
This poster introduces the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Ambassadors Coordination Group (ACG) and invites RDA members from all regions and disciplines to join. Ambassadors connect communities, promote RDA outputs and FAIR data practices, and mentor new members. The group works thr...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Understanding data, AI, sovereignty, and open science
Presentation given at the EGI Conference 2026 (Ghent, 23 September 2026) in the session of the CODATA Open Science Cloud Service XI Metadata Task Group, 'Exploring the AI-driven knowledge world with the metadata approach and beyond', following the Task Group's gap analysis presen...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
The second of two independent opinions on the ethics screening of research for European Commission funding, written in a personal capacity by a member and co-rapporteur of the panels and submitted to the European Commission on 28 July 2026. It concerns the internal dimension of e...
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The space of conscience is a position paper in the GCPA-SIDCER series Science, Policy, and Ethics in Conversation. It argues that the question whether an artificial, biological, or hybrid system might cross a threshold into moral standing, posed as a question about what an entity...
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The first of two independent opinions on the ethics screening of research for European Commission funding, written in a personal capacity by a member and co-rapporteur of the panels and submitted to the European Commission on 28 July 2026. It examines the treatment of artificial...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Metascience, Research Software, and the Case for RS Metascience: Extended Preprint
Metascience is the study of science itself, including how scientific research is conducted, evaluated, and improved. Rather than asking questions about the natural or social world, metascience asks questions about scientific research -- its methods, objects of study, participants...
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Metascience, Research Software, and the Case for RS Metascience: Extended Preprint
Metascience is the study of science itself, including how scientific research is conducted, evaluated, and improved. Rather than asking questions about the natural or social world, metascience asks questions about scientific research -- its methods, objects of study, participants...
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BACKGROUND: Sex differences in cardiovascular disease are well established, but the role of androgens and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) remains unclear. We investigated whether these hormones and SHBG mediate sex differences in the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction (...
- Engineering & Technology
The impact of Deep Learning (DL) models in multiple areas of science and technology continues to grow at an impressive rate. Induction thermography inspection systems could greatly benefit from DL as it would allow for fully automated defect detection based on the thermal images....
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Abstract Artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies are entering health research faster than the systems that oversee it can adapt. Two reform movements respond. A global movement runs through the World Health Organization’s action plan for clinical trial ecosystem s...
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Research software is essential to modern science, yet many research-performing organisations lack coherent policies to support its development, sustainability, and recognition. Despite its central role in research outcomes, research software and its personnel are often excluded f...
- BiologyOpen access
The distribution of fitness effects (DFE) describes the selection coefficients of newly arising mutations and fundamentally influences population genetic processes. However, the extent and mechanisms of differences in the DFE for non-synonymous mutations have not been systematica...
- Health & Medicine
Background: Despite the use of atrial fibrillation (AF) cutoff of 30s as the standard for success in most AF clinical trials, patients consider an AF Severity Scale (AFSS) of ≤ 5 or AF duration ≤ 1 hour as treatment success. Prevalence and factors associated with these patient-de...
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From pilot to method: the CoARA-ERIP instruments and the road to 2033
Research assessment reform has entered a second act. Its principles are broadly settled, and the argument has shifted from whether to reform to how, and to how the reform itself is to be known. This article argues that the frontier now runs through questions the reform has mostly...
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From pilot to method: the CoARA-ERIP instruments and the road to 2033
Research assessment reform has entered a second act. Its principles are broadly settled, and the argument has shifted from whether to reform to how, and to how the reform itself is to be known. This article argues that the frontier now runs through questions the reform has mostly...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
A GCPA-SIDCER position paper in the Science, Policy, and Ethics in Conversation (SPEC) series. Drawing on the FSCI 2026 course 'Who's afraid of knowing?', which the author chaired, and on the reform of research assessment, the paper argues that artificial intelligence has become...
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Conscience and its place in the governance of AI agents: the RDA-Microsoft Data Director
This position paper, in the Science, Policy, and Ethics in Conversation (SPEC) series, builds on a set of comments contributed to the community review of the RDA-Microsoft Data Director Agentic AI Tool Blueprint and takes that Blueprint as a worked case. It argues that the specif...