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Invasion of Ukraine begins cascade of decoupling from Russian science

Science community continues cutting links with Russia and Belarus

The rush to cut academic and research links with Russia and Belarus is picking up speed, as more western governments and organisations move to isolate the countries scientifically. The Netherlands announced today it is freezing all research and education ties with Russia and Belarus over the Russian-led attack on Ukraine.

Europe divided on whether to isolate Russia scientifically

Governments, universities and individual academics across Europe over are being forced to choose whether to cut research ties with Russia after Moscow shocked the scientific community with its assault on Ukraine. Germany, Russia’s second biggest research collaborator after the US, has said it will halt all scientific cooperation, while the UK is reviewing its links.

Covid as Medusa's raft

When you are told "we are all in the same boat", be suspicious. In fact, 205 years after the survivors of the Frigate of Medusa shipwreck were reduced to cannibalism to survive, "we are all on Medusa's raft".

New statement assesses the legal hurdles of patent waiver proposal for Covid-19 vaccines

The low level of Covid-19 vaccination in the Global South is ethically unacceptable and risks prolonging the pandemic. The patent waiver in discussion since 2020 within the World Trade Organization (WTO) will not solve these vaccination bottlenecks in the short-term.

Patent waiver is not silver bullet in pursuit of vaccine equity

The low level of Covid-19 vaccination in the Global South is ethically unacceptable and risks prolonging the pandemic. The patent waiver in discussion

Putting COVID-19 patents aside would not guarantee vaccines equity, say European Academies

A patent waiver will not help guarantee COVID-19 vaccines equity around the world and instead richer countries should back compulsory licensing, says a new report by the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA).

There are more questions than answers: what to watch for at COP26 in research and innovation

This Sunday, 31 October, an estimated 25,000 delegates will descend on Glasgow for the official beginning of the mother of all climate change conferences: COP26. Over two weeks, world leaders (though probably not Xi Jinping of China or Russian president Vladimir Putin, who are reportedly not attending in person) will deliver soaring speeches about their green ambitions and the urgency of keeping global warming below 1.5 centigrade.

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