Faking it
A renowned immunologist whose life was turned upside down when it emerged that one of his postdoctoral researchers had falsified experimental results tells Paul Jump that the sector needs a culture...
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The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
An exploration of the dark side of the neuroscience force leaves Tristan Bekinschtein hungry for more
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Research intelligence - Government's go-to agency for growth seeds scholarly field
Technology Strategy Board aims to yield economic harvest with sector's help. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Research intelligence - Breaking through the glass ceiling
A new initiative aims to tackle the 'leaky pipeline' for women in UK science, reports Nicola Davis
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News in brief
Open-access publishingCORE melds UK repositoriesA search engine that allows researchers to search all of the papers held in the UK's 142 open-access repositories has been developed by The Open...
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No fixed address
A postdoctoral position was once the passport to a research post for life. But the inexorable growth in numbers of postdoctoral researchers means competition for academic careers is fierce. Paul Jump...
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Chase out the old dogs to make way for young blood
Conference debates how best to help early career researchers to thrive. Paul Jump reports
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Unlucky Jim fails to find a foothold as Lucky Jim holds firm
Unless baby-boomers are coaxed down from the top of the tree, new postdocs' careers will not get off the ground, argues Peter Geoghegan
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Leader: Lab bench needs front bench help
The right state formula is needed to tackle the wasteful mismatch between so many trained scientists and so few jobs
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Stapel diet of fraud
Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ‘betrayers of the truth’
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News in Brief
University accessFive go mad in OxbridgeFive high-flying schools sent more students to Oxbridge over three years than 2,000 other UK schools and colleges put together, a report by the Sutton Trust...
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New scheme offers hope in the uncertain world of postdoctoral despair
Uncertainty is the status quo for most early career researchers, for whom job security is generally a forlorn hope. But that will change for 50 postdoctoral researchers being sought by the University...
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Fallen union leader calls for coalition of the willing
AAUP must stop navel-gazing and form alliances to protect staff, Gary Rhoades tells Jon Marcus
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News in brief
Ethical donationsReject tobacco cash, urges CRUKDurham University has been asked by a senior official at Cancer Research UK to return funding from British American Tobacco. The firm donated £125,000...
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Research Intelligence - Bright young things with time to shine
Dale fellowships aim to empower new scholars to ask 'really difficult questions'. Paul Jump reports