ARVO2020 cancelled because of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ARVO has decided to cancel the Annual Meeting to have taken place May 1 – 7 in Baltimore, Md, USA
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New Technologies for Outcome Measures in Uveal Melanoma
Basel Series of Special Interest Focus Groups (SIFG) - „New Technologies for Outcome Measures in Uveal Melanoma” In Collaboration with the European Ocular Oncology Group and the International Society of Ocular Oncology
How to be an ethical scientist
True discovery takes time, has many stops and starts, and is rarely neat and tidy.
EC supports Erasmus+ European Universities pilot with an additional 34 million from Horizon 2020
The European Commission announced that the first 17 alliances of universities selected under the Erasmus+ programme will each receive a complementary EUR 2 million support from Horizon 2020. With this support, the European Universities will explore further integration and transformation in their research and innovation missions.
Simply Expanding Medicaid Coverage Can’t Solve This Leading Public Health Challenge
New research shows significantly more people with diabetes got their critical annual dilated eye exam during the first two years following Medicaid expansion under the under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). However, this encouraging increase in the exam rate did not persist beyond two years.
Australia is cracking down on foreign interference in research. Is the system working?
Pioneering guidelines aren’t enough to prevent overseas militaries such as China’s from co-opting the country’s science, say some experts.
How to shake off the ‘impostor’ fears that plague your PhD studies
Three strategies for fighting those insidious feelings that you don’t deserve to be where you are.
How researchers overturned US sanctions on a virtual summer school
US rules forced an online neuroscience course to block people in Iran from signing up, but the organizers won a last-minute reprieve.
Artificial intelligence recognizes deteriorating photoreceptors
Software based on artificial intelligence (AI), which was developed by researchers at the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital Bonn, Stanford University and University of Utah, enables the precise assessment of the progression of geographic atrophy (GA), a disease of the light sensitive retina caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Conferences failing to protect LGBT+ researchers
Promoting equity, diversity and inclusion at meetings requires more than a code of conduct, analysis finds.
Research to Prevent Blindness/American Academy of Ophthalmology Award announced
Research to Prevent Blindness and American Academy of Ophthalmology Award Grants for Big Data Research to Improve Patient Care - Award recipients to use IRIS Registry database to uncover new approaches to preventing and treating eye disease
Signs of ‘citation hacking’ flagged in scientific papers
An algorithm developed to spot abnormal patterns of citations aims to find scientists who have manipulated reference lists.
‘Make research fun again’
UK’s powerful funding chief is on a mission to change scientific culture - Ottoline Leyser takes the reigns at UK Research and Innovation at a turbulent time.
How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
This coronavirus is here for the long haul — here’s what scientists predict for the next months and years.