Letters to a Pre-Scientist (LPS) pairs students with a worldwide network of STEM professionals for a yearlong pen pal program during science class. LPS aims to broaden students’ awareness of what STEM professionals look like and do at work and inspire all students to explore a future in STEM. They work with fifth to tenth grade ..read more

Read the full story at Undark. Scientists who spend time peer-reviewing manuscripts don’t get rewarded for their efforts. It’s time to change that ..read more

Read the full story at Dynamic Ecology. Recently, we invited you to ask us anything! Today’s question comes from Falko Buschke (click that link for the full question, which I’m about to summarize). Falko notes that, in the latest Clarivate journal citation reports, several leading ecology journals rank surprisingly low in impact factor (IF) among ..read more

Read the full story from Minnesota Public Radio. Minnesotans now have more options to fix damaged consumer electronics, appliances and more thanks to a Right to Repair law that took effect Monday.  ..read more

Read the full story from MIT Technology Review. Stijn Lemmens has a cleanup job like few others. A senior space debris mitigation analyst at the European Space Agency (ESA), Lemmens works on counteracting space pollution by collaborating with spacecraft designers and the wider industry to create missions less likely to clutter the orbital environment ..read more

Read the full story at Fast Company. Johannes Lenhard and Hannah Leach explain how the continued backlash against environmental, social, and governance integration in investing is frustrating because there’s a clear business case and it’s in taxpayer interests ..read more

Read the full story at Fast Company. Legislation opposing ESG initiatives once again dominated state legislative agendas in the 2024 sessions, but increased opposition from everyone from investors to business leaders managed to squash most of those efforts, a new report from policy research and advisory firm Pleiades Strategy has found ..read more

Read the full story from the London School of Economics. Research integrity and trust in science have made global news this year. Reflecting on the scientific norm of organised scepticism, Panagiotis Kavouras outlines how building trust in science requires commitments to social and technical means of ensuring transparency and reproducibility across scientific processes ..read more

Awolesi, Oluwafemi, Corinne A. Salter, and Margaret Reams. 2024. “A Systematic Review on the Path to Inclusive and Sustainable Energy Transitions” Energies 17(14), 3512. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17143512 Abstract This paper surveys the energy literature and systematically reviews the path to an inclusive and sustainable energy transition by exploring factors that drive the current energy transitions, countries with ..read more

Heffron, R.J., Foley, A. & Furszyfer Del Rio, D.D. “The role of justice is set to shift accountability and responsibility in the energy sector.” Nature Energy (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01544-4 Abstract The understanding of justice in the energy sector has now been harmonized across stakeholders, causing risk, reward and — in particular — responsibility to be reallocated ..read more