International Research Awards on New Science Inventions

  Multi-million dollar boost to research infrastructure, Pawsey Access to research infrastructure  for Australian scientists has improved thanks to a $39.5 million investment from the Australian Research Council and $22.4 million of state government funding for the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Western Australia. The latest Australian Research Council (ARC) funds come out of the annual Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) scheme, with funding to begin 2023. It represents a $17.1 million increase on the amount of funds distributed to projects in 2022. Funding through LIEF supports the acquisition of research equipment and infrastructure, and enables access to expensive facilities nationally and internationally. A total of 45 research grants has been awarded for projects across 21 universities. Advanced manufacturing projects were the most likely to receive funding, making up 19 of the successful projects. Energy-related and projects that did n...

Persistent identifiers – or PIDs – are long-lasting references to digital resources. In other words, they are a unique label to an entity: a person, place, or thing. PIDs work by redirecting the user to the online resource, even if the location of that resource changes. They also have associated metadata which contains information about the entity and also provide links to other PIDs. For example, many scholars already populate their ORCID records, linking themselves to their research outputs through Crossref and DataCite DOIs. As the PID ecosystem matures, to include PIDs for grants ( Crossref grant IDs ), projects ( RAiD ), and organisations ( ROR ), the connections between PIDs form a graph that describes the research landscape. In this post, Phill Jones talks about the work that the MoreBrains cooperative has been doing to show the value of a connected PID-based infrastructure. Over the past year or so, we at MoreBrains have been working with a number of national-level resea...

For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together countries from around the globe to hold climate summits on how to address the growing climate crisis. Last year’s Conference of the Parties (COP) in Glasgow (delayed by a year due to the pandemic) took major steps toward addressing the climate crisis, but failed to deliver the national commitments required to together limit warming globally to 1.5C laid out by the Paris Agreement. After a year of extreme weather events, from record heatwaves to disastrous flooding, this year’s COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, will be crucial as the world seeks to take steps together toward mitigating and preventing the worst impacts of climate change.  A UN Climate Change ‘Global Innovation Hub’ (UGIH) will be held during COP27, accessible digitally for the first time to enable greater collaboration, and is set to “ ratchet up the scale and effectiveness of innovation in tackling climate change and help deliver on the UN’s Sustainable D...