Highlights

Interview

2024 could become the year with the highest number of dengue cases

FAMERP virologist Maurício Nogueira discusses the characteristics of the current epidemic and the need for the health system to prepare for more patients

By Ricardo Zorzetto

Data

Women in higher education

The presence of women in higher education has been increasing since 2010

By Redação

Good practices

Signs of forced consent

Suspicion that ethnic groups were coerced into providing data and biological samples calls 96 forensic genetics articles into question

By Fabrício Marques

Good practices

Norwegian minister behind crackdown on student misconduct resigns due to plagiarism

Sandra Borch resigned from her post on January 23 after allegations that she plagiarized at least 20% of her master's thesis

By Redação

Good practices

American university museum returns artifacts looted from Greece

Emory University reached an agreement with the Greek Ministry of Culture to return three artifacts held at the institution’s Michael C. Carlos Museum

By Redação

Human resources

Field courses in ecology encounter obstacles in Brazil

Practical disciplines, essential to the training of future researchers, suffer from a lack of funding

By Sarah Schmidt

Funding

Fund to identify organizations that support the Black population with Black leadership

Initiative seeks to collect data on inequality and philanthropy

By Maurício Oliveira

Equality

Breaking down structural barriers

Research network covering 16 countries maps gender inequality in the scientific environment and shares strategies to tackle the issue

By Fabrício Marques

Interview

Barbara Weinstein: A Brazilianist in transformation

Part of the first group of women to graduate from Princeton University, the American historian analyzed the leading role of regional elites and workers in business dynamics in Brazil

By Christina Queiroz