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Interviewing for a job is not a skill we’re trained for in academia, so here are a few tips from a professor who has been on both sides of the interview divide
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Boris Johnson’s new ministerial council has revived discussion over who controls science spending and whether industrial strategy requires government to start ‘picking winners’
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Performance can help explore academic questions, say advocates, but the field still lacks full acceptance in the corridors of power and policymaking
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With social distancing scuppering traditional fieldwork, social scientists were forced to adapt their research methods. Jack Grove finds out how they managed
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After claims Sheffield leaders aim to be ‘M&S, not Aldi’ brand, critics point to earlier withdrawal from AMRC training centre extension
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Senior scientists say severe shortage of junior scientists from European Union threatens quality of UK research
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Australian university limits journals accepted for doctorates amid mounting concern among academics
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Recent detentions may put a dampener on field research and outreach, even if borders reopen
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There is still much controversy about whether the virus that causes Covid-19 was released from a laboratory. David Sanders considers the nature of ‘gain-of-function’ research, what it can teach us – and the safeguards we need to put in place
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Artificial intelligence will soon be able to research and write essays as well as humans can. So will genuine education be swept away by a tidal wave of cheating – or is AI just another technical aid that teaching and assessment will evolve to take account of? John Ross reports
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Interview with Wolfgang Warsch
15/07/2021
The former Austrian molecular biologist explains how a boring childhood was an advantage, why he switched careers and how designing board games is like basic research -
Academics are not known for their killer dress sense, but it can affect everything from course evaluations to perceived competence, say Sebastian Oliver and Ben Marder
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The pandemic has not hit all students’ learning equally. Anna McKie talks to two experts on how to spot those who may have fallen behind and help them get up to speed
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Covid redundancy terms include non-disclosure and non-disparagement obligations, as corporate HR culture captures universities
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Supply shortages snarl US laboratories
28/06/2021
Problem threatens to delay recovery after losses in grant support and obstacles for young scientists -
Scholars, fed up with decades of living from contract to contract, force government to remove video that seemed to celebrate insecurity
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Former Tory minister warns using ELQ rule in government’s planned skills revolution would block careers in key sectors like fashion
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Analysis by THE shows how specialist institutions would bear brunt of impact
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Secret lists of preferred papers have been circulated prior to computer science meetings to help favoured scholars get ahead, says US professor
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Who are you calling a pseudoscientist?
28/06/2021
Academics need to think far more carefully about how they define and police the boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate knowledge, argues Michael D. Gordin