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Nature thanks the guest editors of our racism in science special issue
This special issue is part of Nature’s commitment to change. We thank our inspiring guest editors for helping us to make it happen.
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The unseen Black faces of AI algorithms
An audit of commercial facial-analysis tools found that dark-skinned faces are misclassified at a much higher rate than are faces from any other group. Four years on, the study is shaping research, regulation and commercial practices.
- Abeba Birhane
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The geoscientist fighting for universities to confront systemic racism
Christopher Jackson felt obligated to speak out against racism in UK institutions, but a lack of support left him disillusioned with academia.
- Tosin Thompson
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‘I was treated as if I was dirty’: a paediatrician decries racism against African scientists
Nadia Sam-Agudu is tired of how international funders and collaborators infantilize her and her colleagues.
- Abdullahi Tsanni
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‘It’s a constant hum’: a planetary geologist calls out racism in academia
Martha Gilmore has faced not only accusations of theft and lying, but also quiet isolation and the pain of watching racism bear down on others.
- Kendra Pierre-Louis
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The first Indigenous female surgeon in Canada is battling for health justice
Nadine Caron was appalled to hear racist views about Indigenous health from a project adviser. So she’s fighting to change perceptions.
- McKenzie Prillaman
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‘There’s no space for us’: an Indigenous-health researcher battles racism in Australia
Chelsea Watego saw a message in the cold, cramped office space she was given. She decided to fight back.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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Nature Index |
Should AI have a role in assessing research quality?
A UK study aims to find out whether artificial intelligence could ease the peer-review process for the country’s Research Excellence Framework.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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Nature Index |
The rural areas missing out on AI opportunities
Behavioural data scientist Ganna Pogrebna believes the AI revolution is overlooking remote communities.
- Benjamin Plackett
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Human brain cells implanted in rats prompt excitement — and concern
Rat–human hybrid brains offer new ways to study human neurological disorders, but also raise ethical questions.
- Sara Reardon
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A big chance for science at the heart of global policymaking
The UN’s top leadership is reaching out to the scientific community to help inform decision making — a welcome move in a highly uncertain world.
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How Nature contributed to science’s discriminatory legacy
We want to acknowledge — and learn from — our history.
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Outlook |
Psychedelic research and the real world
Clinical trials of psychedelic drugs impose constraints that make it difficult to judge how effective they will be in treating people.
- Paul S. Appelbaum
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Correspondence |
Dual-use research needs international oversight
- Simon Whitby
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Career Feature |
How hiring policies can help end workplace harassment
US institutions and states are revamping hiring practices in an attempt to increase transparency about past misconduct in academia.
- Emily Sohn
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The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby
Some companies offer tests that rank embryos based on their risk of developing complex diseases such as schizophrenia or heart disease. Are they accurate — or ethical?
- Max Kozlov
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Correspondence |
Fieldwork: institutions can make it more ethical
- Laura E. Picot
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Correspondence |
Employers — stop discrimination against people who’ve had COVID-19
- Di Xu
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Comment |
Partially revived pig organs could force a rethink of critical-care processes
Procedures used in life support and to preserve organs in deceased human donors might one day need to be re-evaluated in the wake of a study that restored some cell function in pigs one hour after death.
- Brendan Parent
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Obituary |
James E. Lovelock (1919–2022)
Inventor who introduced the Gaia hypothesis to environmental science.
- John Gribbin
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Hybrid brains: the ethics of transplanting human neurons into animals
Transplanting human cells into animal brains brings insights into development and disease along with new ethical questions.
- Kendall Powell
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World View |
Retractions are increasing, but not enough
Retraction Watch has witnessed a retraction boom since its founding 12 years ago. But the scientific community must do much more.
- Ivan Oransky
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Support Europe’s bold vision for responsible research assessment
There have been many initiatives to combat the distorting effect of research assessment exercises. The latest looks like it might work
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Exclusive: investigators found plagiarism and data falsification in work from prominent cancer lab
Ohio State University investigations identified misconduct by two scientists in lab of high-profile cancer researcher Carlo Croce. The university has cleared Croce of misconduct, but disciplined him over management problems.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Africa: regulate surveillance technologies and personal data
CCTV cameras and spyware are proliferating in the continent without checks and balances. Governments must legislate locally to prevent civil-rights abuses.
- Bulelani Jili
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World View |
I wouldn’t be a scientist without my abortion
To decide my future, I had to overcome unnecessary barriers to health care.
- Jacquelyn Gill
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Comment |
Who to vaccinate first? A peek at decision-making in a pandemic
Faced with the challenge of advising the World Health Organization on who should be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, an advisory group used an approach it hadn’t tried before.
- Ruth Faden
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Correspondence |
Removing carbon dioxide: first, do no harm
- Ken Buesseler
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Comment |
Six research priorities to support corporate due-diligence policies
Laws to stamp out deforestation, pollution and child labour in global supply chains might have unintended consequences. Researchers need to investigate these effects.
- Jorge Sellare
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Book Review |
How the peanut trade prolonged slavery
The legume’s history in West Africa is intimately linked with conquest.
- Amy Maxmen
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World View |
I have funds to buy reagents, but not remedies
Ignoring the challenges of research in low-income countries only perpetuates inequity.
- Kondwani Jambo
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News |
Open-source language AI challenges big tech’s models
BLOOM aims to address the biases that machine-learning systems inherit from the texts they train on.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Many researchers say they’ll share data — but don’t
Reasons included a lack of informed consent or ethics approval to share; misplaced data; and that others had moved on from the project.
- Clare Watson
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Research must do no harm: new guidance addresses all studies relating to people
Springer Nature editors urge consideration of the potential harms of all research relating to human populations, not just that directly involving human participants.
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African researchers lead campaign for equity in global collaborations
Cape Town statement on research partnerships between the global north and south will highlight unethical practices and offer advice to scientists.
- Holly Else
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News Q&A |
This app helps researchers explore ethical dilemmas
The creators of a game featuring research-integrity puzzles hope to open up discussions among scientists.
- Holly Else
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Correspondence |
Fifty years after UN environment summit, researchers renew call for action
- Maria Ivanova
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Nature addresses helicopter research and ethics dumping
New framework aims to improve inclusion and ethics in global research collaborations amid wider efforts to end exploitative practices.
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First pig kidneys transplanted into people: what scientists think
The genetically modified organs seemed to function for more than two days but some researchers are sceptical that the experiments had value.
- Sara Reardon
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Career Column |
How I found a way to balance research integrity with people’s welfare
Laura McCosker faced ethical dilemmas when the need to distribute COVID vaccines disrupted her research plans.
- Laura McCosker
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Correspondence |
How to ensure the Human Cell Atlas benefits humanity
- Partha Majumder
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China focuses on ethics to deter another ‘CRISPR babies’ scandal
But some question whether a statement from the government will deter scientists from carrying out research that violates ethical norms.
- Smriti Mallapaty
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How a Brazilian dinosaur sparked a movement to decolonize fossil science
Rather than excitement, the discovery of the species set off a Latin American movement to stop colonial palaeontology.
- Mariana Lenharo
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Perspective |
The Human Pangenome Project: a global resource to map genomic diversity
The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium aims to offer the highest quality and most complete human pangenome reference that provides diverse genomic representation across human populations.
- Ting Wang
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- & David Haussler