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
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Research intelligence - Worth the paper it's written on?
How important are doctoral students to research - and vice versa? Jon Cartwright reports
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Research Intelligence - Briefing encounters
Pairing rapid-response scientific expertise with breaking news stories is the Science Media Centre's core mission. Paul Jump reports
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Seminal research is pulled for plagiarism
The introduction to a high-profile paper was largely lifted from a 2007 article. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Powered by the people
Independent 'citizen scientists' have always existed, says Darrel Ince, and our networked age of fast computing and open access is helping them to flourish - to the greater good of research
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Newcastle goes back to basics to avoid plagiarism
A faculty at the centre of an embarrassing plagiarism case has ordered senior researchers to check more carefully the drafts of papers written by inexperienced colleagues.The faculty of medical...
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Can't beat the real thing
Tutorials are vital for a quality learning experience, writes Tim Birkhead