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As I am writing this article, I should be writing something else: an email to an editor, an email to an author, a letter of recommendation, notes for tomorrow’s classes, comments on students’ papers, comments on manuscripts, an abstract for an upcoming conference, notes for one of the books I’m working on.
Peter Gluckman, New Zealand's chief science adviser, offers his ten principles for building trust, influence, engagement and independence.
Is 2014 the year that Europe gets drug companies to publish all their data on the safety and effectiveness of medicines?
Science is now able to self-correct instantly. Post-publication peer review is here to stay.
Study of psychology departments finds that female full professors are less likely to co-author papers with lower ranking women
As universities move towards a corporate business model, precarity is being imposed by force. The following is an edited transcript (prepared by Robin J. Sowards) of remarks given by Noam Chomsky last month to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Penn.
The good news: Many more women than ever before are completing Ph.D.'s in the sciences. Back in 2000, when I was appointed the first female dean of the graduate division at the University of California at Berkeley, I was delighted to learn that about half of the incoming doctoral students in the biological sciences-and more than 30 percent in heavily male fields like chemistry and engineering-were women.
Mehr Schulen, mehr Abiturienten, mehr Lehrer und mehr Akademiker. Die Bildungsexpansion ist beispiellos. Fachleute streiten, wie lang sie weitergeht. Und wozu.
Higher education needs to break down the barriers that block pathways to cross-subject study.
Universities are drowning in digital information. It's time senior leaders made openness – and its consequences – their concern.
Scientists are not as secular as people think.
Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don't matter in today's great debates.
Maybe the researchers deeply believed that their findings were true. But that is the problem. The more passionate scientists are about their work, the more susceptible they are to bias.
An interview with Professor Sydney Brenner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002.
The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.
„Eine gute Forschungsstätte räumt Hindernisse aus dem Weg," meint Jürgen Knoblich, stellvertretender Direktor des Instituts für Molekulare Biotechnologie (IMBA) des ÖAW.
The EU's academic output is 20% higher than the US. This shouldn't really be a surprise given the EU's combined population of over 500m versus America's 300m. In fact, Europe produces a third of the world's research outputs and, like China, investment is being ramped up while UK and US investments are treading water.
Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty uncovers the secrets behind the California Institute of Technology's extraordinary global success
Antonio Loprieno, Rektor der Uni Basel, im Interview
Die Bedeutung von Drittmitteln in der universitären Forschung hat dramatisch zugenommen und wächst immer noch weiter.
Although the representation of women and racial or ethnic minorities within the scientific community has increased in recent decades, the overall pace of diversification remains relatively slow.
Die Einführung von Tenure Track-Modellen für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs ist in Deutschland neuerdings in aller Munde.
Why don't proposals given better scores by the NIH lead to more important research outcomes?
Long-term study will monitor healthy people in detail — and encourage them to respond to the results
Le sociologue et historien des sciences Yves Gingras vient de publier "Les dérives de l'évaluation de la recherche. Du bon usage de la bibliométrie", chez Raison d'agir.
A special issue of the EuroScientist focusing on the evolving solution for research evaluation
Knowledge generated with public funds should be accessible to everyone, says Dr Al Shorbaji, Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO.
Research careers are built on publishing in high-profile journals, so can postdocs be expected to take a stand against them?
Der amerikanische Literaturagent John Brockman stellt der Cyber-Elite jedes Jahr seine Edge-Frage. Lesen Sie an dieser Stelle eine Auswahl der jüngsten aufregenden und überraschenden Antworten.
Scientific publishing is under the spotlight at the moment. Is it time for change?
