North Carolina in spotlight over race-related admissions emails Admissions officers wrote of favouring ‘brown babies’, campaign group reveals Paul Basken 2月 21日
Research Excellence Summit: science experts ‘just another lobby group’ Researchers must ‘put on the gloves’ and bring the fight to their critics, says Arizona State professor John Ross 2月 21日
Russian trolls used campus rows to ‘push partisan hot buttons’ Archive of tweets linked to St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency reveals scale of disinformation attempts around free speech and ‘left bias’ controversies John Morgan 2月 21日
Impostor syndrome: two-thirds of female scholars suffer badly Self-perceived levels of impostor syndrome in women remain equally high among senior academics, study finds Jack Grove 2月 20日
US science society launches research hotline for politicians American Association for the Advancement of Science accompanied by global efforts to better inform policymaking Paul Basken 2月 19日
Scientists in step for ‘Dance Your PhD’ competition Turning to dance may help scientists communicate their findings to those who distrust experts, claims competition winner Matthew Reisz 2月 19日
Canadian universities battle to preserve copyright exemptions Publishers accuse institutions of piracy as revenues slump Paul Basken 2月 18日
Academic attitudes ‘hold back minority science students’ Race-based student performance gap doubles when professors admit doubts about innate abilities Paul Basken 2月 16日
Small research teams produce ‘riskier, more disruptive science’ Large research groups may be less flexible and more risk-averse, study suggests Rachael Pells 2月 15日
Philosopher explores how to combat toxicity of social media Regina Rini discusses how academics and students can avoid online aggression Matthew Reisz 2月 15日
Extreme teaching: academics who suffer for students Academic turned wrestler Dan Mathewson is just one of many educators willing to go the extra mile for scholarship and learning, says Jack Grove Jack Grove 2月 14日
Threatened scholars: online harassment risks academic freedom Rebekah Tromble and Patricia Rossini feared for their safety when the conservative online world turned against them last summer David Matthews 2月 14日