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Denmark, a new design for innovation - 2014-2019, speech by Carlos Moedas.
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You Probably Won't Get Tenure. Get Your Ph.D. Anyway.
The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.
Researchers turn to crowdfunding for support outside universities
Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small.
Meet the challenge of interdisciplinary science
Problems of modern society demand collaborative research.
These 109 Nobel laureates have finally had enough of Greenpeace’s anti-GMO campaign
These 109 Nobel laureates have finally had enough of Greenpeace’s anti-GMO campaign
Greenpeace accepts climate science. So why do they dismiss the science around GMOs?
Interdisciplinary research has consistently lower funding success
An analysis of Australian Research Council data reveals grant proposals that integrate a broad array of academic fields are less likely to be funded.
New federal funding process for research leaves scientists stewing in frustration
Don’t change your family-friendly tenure extension policy just yet
An analysis to the NYT article entitled "A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors"
Examining the differences between the motivations of traditional and entrepreneurial scientists
Examining the differences between the motivations of traditional and entrepreneurial scientists
Motivational differences among specific groups of researchers at 20 Hungarian higher education institutions.
The Domino Effects of Federal Research Funding
Paper examining whether federal research investment serves as a complement or substitute for state and local government, nonprofit, and industry research investment using the population of research-active academic science fields at U.S. doctoral granting institutions.
Building successful collaborations
Explore the benefits of building bridges and pick up some tips about how to do it in this collection of articles from our archives.
Joe Biden: Agencies don't report clinical trials should lose funds
At a national cancer summit, Vice President Biden threatened to cut funds to medical research institutions that don't report their clinical trial results.
Publisher under fire for fake article webpages
'Trap’ URLs can help publishers to catch automated downloading, but critics say that the approach is clumsy.
Paul Nurse: 'Research needs free movement to thrive'
Sir Paul Nurse says UK science will suffer unless any post-Brexit agreement allows the free movement of people.
Q&A: Former E.U. science adviser Anne Glover on U.K. research after Brexit: 'I'm very pessimistic'
Higher Education Institutions Will Risk Funding Penalties if They Fail to Address Gender Inequality
Higher Education Institutions Will Risk Funding Penalties if They Fail to Address Gender Inequality
Higher education institutions will risk funding being withheld if they fail to address gender inequality in the coming years. That’s one of the outcomes of a report published on gender equality in higher education. The report was compiled by the Expert Group commissioned by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) to undertake a national review of gender equality in higher education institutions. The Expert Group was chaired by Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.
The journal Impact Factor and alternative metrics
A variety of bibliometric measures has been developed to supplant the Impact Factor to better assess the impact of individual research papers
Social-progress panel seeks public comment
Marc Fleurbaey and colleagues explain why and how 300 scholars in the social sciences and humanities are collaborating to synthesize knowledge for policymakers.
Global Research Council: Commit to equity for women researchers
Heads of research agencies from nearly 50 countries — large and small, with developed and emerging economies — adopted a Statement of Principles and Actions Promoting the Equality and Status of Women in Research at the Global Research Council's fifth annual meeting last month in New Delhi.
Publishing needs more science, fewer stories: Q&A with founders of ScienceMatters
Ever wish you could just publish an exciting result, without having to wait for the entire string of data that follows in order to tell an entire story, which then gets held up for months by peer review at traditional journals?
Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem
Sexism, racism and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many “intelligent” systems that shape how we are categorized and advertised to.
Do publishers add value? Maybe little, suggests preprint study of preprints
Academic publishers argue they add value to manuscripts by coordinating the peer-review process and editing manuscripts — but a new preliminary study suggests otherwise.
A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors
The underrepresentation of women among the senior ranks of scholars has led dozens of universities to adopt family-friendly employment policies. But a recent study of economists in the United States finds that some of these gender-neutral policies have had an unintended consequence: They have advanced the careers of male economists, often at women’s expense.
A winding path to satisfaction
Many feel there is only one path to success and that any deviations will be catastrophic. My own academic path might seem to support this belief. On the surface, it appears quite linear: undergrad, grad student, postdoc, faculty member. But if you look deeper, you will see the series of roadblocks and revised plans that led me to where I am today.
Universities UK statement on the outcome of the EU referendum
Dame Julia Goodfellow, President of Universities UK said: 'Leaving the EU will create significant challenges for universities. Although this is not an outcome that we wished or campaigned for, we respect the decision of the UK electorate.'
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