Being a Scientist: In the Name of Perseverance
Between honoring her immigrant family and making her children proud, a first-generation PhD student fights for her place in academia.
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Between honoring her immigrant family and making her children proud, a first-generation PhD student fights for her place in academia.
Tearing down ideas is central to scientific practice, but when it bleeds into the interpersonal, science loses its humanity.
Some students at UK universities may not receive their grades this summer because of a marking boycott by staff, affecting exams and assessments. The boycott is part of action being taken by members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 145 UK institutions, in a dispute over pay and working conditions.
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) are continuing a marking and assessment boycott over pay and working conditions. The BBC spoke to students and staff at the University of Cambridge about how the situation is being handled there.
Conditions that affect women more than men garner less funding. But boosting investment could reap big rewards. These charts show how.
Sexual harassment in STEM isolates survivors. Collective bargaining could engage the whole academic community in ending sexual harassment.
Increasing investments, transforming research culture and boosting talent attraction - these are the recommendations for a more equal European R&I landscape outlined in a new paper by Science Europe.
Two studies of citations in physics highlight factors contributing to this gender disparity.
Disparities extend to lower chance of being named on patents and to areas such as healthcare where women dominate
Data reveal that to earn credit on scientific articles, women need to work harder than men.
This article studies international citation and text similarity networks across 150 fields and find that some countries increasingly receive more citations despite researching similar topics as others.
Research-reform advocates must beware unintended consequences.
This study found that the average age of scientists at the time of the breakthrough was higher for researchers from less developed countries. Moreover, individual opportunities in the world were extremely unequal by country of birth, gender significantly conditioned any participation in research, and the probability of becoming a top researcher more than doubled for individuals with parents belonging to the most favoured occupational categories.
What can research societies do to improve accessibility and equity in Open Research? Haseeb Irfanullah suggests ways we can transform our outlook and efforts.
A patent waiver will not help guarantee COVID-19 vaccines equity around the world and instead richer countries should back compulsory licensing, says a new report by the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA).