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At this year's Metascience conference in London, GRIOS - Global Research Initiative on Open Science presented to the wider research community for the first time. We shared our mission while exploring a fundamental question: how can the tools and methods used by research itself help drive Open Science uptake? We also posed a bold proposal to the room of more than 800 researchers, policymakers, and funders: What if together we created an Intergovernmental Panel for Open Science? Just as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) synthesises scientific evidence to inform global climate policy, the next generation of open science policies needs systematic evidence synthesis to guide decision-making. We want to thank everyone who engaged with us at the conference. We've been reflecting on those conversations and what they mean for the road ahead. In our blog post, we have summarised our reflections from the conference, exploring what we learned from cross-national dialogues, why we joined the Metascience Alliance, and what comes next for evidence-based Open Science policy. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/dxyq_JxZ #OpenScience #Metascience #Metascience25 #EvidenceBasedPolicy #Research

Happy to share work by 3 fantastic CROCUS early-career scientists: Jangho Lee, Sunyoung Park, and Abhinav Wadhwa - published in Environmental Research Water. This study explored different urban flooding indicators in creating flooding records in Chicago. These include radar, satellite SAR, hydraulic modeling, and citizen science reports. https://lnkd.in/g-xsYq2W

💡 The SaLLy • Statistical Learning Laboratory Director, Paulo Canas Rodrigues, delivered the plenary talk “Spatio-temporal modelling and hierarchical time series forecasting of the Brazilian wildfires” at Workshop on Dependence Analysis, held at the Campinas State University (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), Campinas, Brazil, from September 26-27, 2025. 📊 The presentation explored new developments in spatio-temporal modeling and hierarchical time series forecasting, with special interest in climate change, pollution, and wildfires. #SaLLy

It's here: the 2024-2025 Annual Report of the Environmental Institute! Highlights inside include: - Four new Grand Challenges hires in sustainability and resilience research - A new Climate Collaborative, this one in the Arctic - Updates on research in key areas like Energy + Infrastructure, Environment + AI, and Coastal Resilience - The creation of new Research Interest Groups - Two new Practitioner Fellows - A cohort of twelve Climate Fellows - The expansion of the Decarbonization Corps for students Download and read to learn more - https://lnkd.in/eXVJWbCg

I’m pleased to share our newly published paper in Scientific Reports, which explores the dynamics between invasive alien species (IAS), research effort and climate change. This work adds to the growing body of research on IAS and emphasizes the role of Local Ecological Knowledge (especially fishermen) in detecting IAS — read more here: [https://rdcu.be/eLIs4]

Excited to share our latest publication from our interdisciplinary project on the relationship between climate change and migration, published by Nature's Communication Earth and Environment. This paper comes at an opportune time when countries in the Global North are moving towards increasingly more restrictive migration policies and border controls while the climate change and its associated impacts, especially in the Global South worsen. Excellent collaboration from co-authors: @Xiaoye Chang, @Deliang Cheng, and @Anders Burman. School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg @Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg Full article available open access: https://rdcu.be/eLIcP

Supporting open science practices With its emphasis on transparency, accessibility, and collaboration, open science speeds up scientific progress and facilitates the rapid sharing of knowledge. For researchers, sharing research outputs openly is crucial to address the world’s most urgent challenges, from poverty to climate change. This blog series explains how and why research data, code and protocols should be shared, and what the benefits are to authors and the wider scientific community: http://spklr.io/6047BH7Oh

Let's start OAWeek with this delightful news: Tellus is relaunched 💫 An international, open-access journal publishing high-quality research on the processes and interactions that shape the Earth system in a changing climate. The relaunch is a collaboration with Bolin Centre for Climate Research. #OpenAccessWeek2025

Supporting open science practices With its emphasis on transparency, accessibility, and collaboration, open science speeds up scientific progress and facilitates the rapid sharing of knowledge. For researchers, sharing research outputs openly is crucial to address the world’s most urgent challenges, from poverty to climate change. This blog series explains how and why research data, code and protocols should be shared, and what the benefits are to authors and the wider scientific community. http://spklr.io/6043BKfmX

In our first Global Research Newsletter of the academic year, Professor Rebecca J. Lingwood FREng, Vice‑Chancellor (interim) reflects on Lancaster University’s growing global footprint and research impact. Features include Lancaster University Leipzig’s research strengths in AI and management with Jian Wang and Jienjun Hu-Bols, Professor Nick Dunn’s book Dark Futures on light pollution, Jana Purkiss and Emanuele Giorgi on the globalisation of tropical diseases, Phil Haygarth on the global importance of phosphorus, and we catch-up with Lancaster alumna Dr Aluna Everitt at the University of Canterbury. Also featured in this month’s Global Research Newsletter: Mark Roulston, Kim Kaivanto on How market competition can deliver better climate change forecasting, 'More Crop Per Drop' with Ian Dodd, Elizabete Carmo-Silva and Martin Parry, and we celebrate David Higgitt's time at BJTU and his receiving of the 2025 Wing Ip Medal by the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Read the full issue and subscribe on our website: https://lnkd.in/gRjQBGzX