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One thousand PhD places to be created over next five years

Research for the public good being subverted by geopolitical ‘zero-sum competition’, says former LSE professor

Academics highlight brain drain of researchers and loss of international research partners as concerns in wake of latest government ‘attack on autonomy’

Large research groups may be less flexible and more risk-averse, study suggests

Evidence suggests citations boost from working with industry

Two researchers who study rainforest resilience tell Jack Grove of their alarm at seeing the devastation wrought by wildfires

Simon Baker examines the rise of China as a research nation and the worries this provokes among some Westerners

Academic turned wrestler Dan Mathewson is just one of many educators willing to go the extra mile for scholarship and learning, says Jack Grove 

Universities ‘relieved’ at rejection of defence department demands for more control over technology they create

Fixating on how research misconduct might impact the figures could distract the scholarly world from bigger questions about the future direction and conduct of science, explains Simon Baker

Liberal arts professor Dan Mathewson uses his wrestling alter ego to explore the politics of the working-class American South

ߣߣÊÓƵn researchers say a lack of guidance material forces researchers to second-guess ethics committees

Counting China’s first green billionaire among your mentees doesn’t hurt in funding applications, says UNSW professor

Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex

US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility

Seven academic chemists give their views on the field’s health

Jordanian molecular biologist Rana Dajani talks to Matthew Reisz about her multiple roles as a conspicuously successful feminist, hijab-wearing scientist in the Middle East

Seeking special status will further antagonise non-members faced with curtailed access to EU research funding, says Jan Palmowski

As Brexit reaches fever pitch, who knows what damage the 2028 research excellence framework might reveal

Report from Clarivate Analytics’ Institute for Scientific Information suggests more nuanced ways of analysing research impact

Christopher Hunt shared row with precious remains after granting of ‘passport’

Analysis of research co-authored with city region shows more than half of papers now involve links with mainland

The advent of Plan S promises to turbocharge the open access movement, but amid pushback from researchers and publishers, Rachael Pells examines whether the demand for published research truly merits the disruption

UK universities and research institutes drawing up contingency plans for chaotic departure from European Union

Evidence of strong public demand for access to papers is scant. Might a sophisticated database of lay summaries be more valuable?

Don’t fixate on funding cuts and market challenges, UK-born star scientist Michelle Simmons tells ߣߣÊÓƵn peers

Portland State University’s investigation of a researcher who published hoax papers misses the point of ethical oversight, says Jeffrey Flier

Scientific advances expected after new US law requires federal statistics and documents to be published in uniform and open formats

Some research disciplines have their very own ‘Simon and Garfunkel’. Matthew Reisz talks to some of those whose close and enduring collaborations have convinced them that two voices are better than one

Institutions seek guidance over links to Chinese company but are told that it is not their role to start a ‘new Cold War’

Matthew Reisz considers the advantages – and the challenges – of long-term scholarly alliances and the role that gender can play 

Scholars offer their advice on the art of promoting research online

New book explores proliferation of ‘starchitect’-designed facilities 

Portland State University says Peter Boghossian’s attack on academic explorations of race and gender failed to get ethics approval

Oxford academic says increasing work pressures and time constraints mean practice’s future is at risk

Forcing academics on to teaching-only contracts based on flawed assessments of their research is ruining careers, an anonymous academic says 

Foreign-born academics outperform US counterparts on numerous productivity measures, analysis shows

Turing Institute and British Library collaborate on project to use artificial intelligence techniques to analyse texts

Encouraging academics to spend time with scholars from outside their own discipline will be vital to tackling today’s grand challenges, says Annette Rubery

With one more year to go until the end of a decade that is transforming universities worldwide, ߣߣÊÓƵ looks at the trends that have shaped the past 12 months

The Canadian government’s excessive policing of privacy makes it intolerably onerous to access its datasets, says Karen Robson

Academics claim that loopholes in government index of top scholars raise questions over allocation of public money

Staffing reductions could leave institution unable to meet needs of international researchers, academics warn

Tokenistic and irrelevant assessments of research’s social value are holding back progress, say Clarence Tam and three others

Academics should not sneer at Simon Birmingham’s appeal to what ‘most ߣߣÊÓƵns’ would think about projects, says Hannah Forsyth

Figures in Elsevier report on AI research landscape are ‘a call to action’

Peer review is lauded in principle as the guarantor of quality in academic publishing and grant distribution. But its practice is often loathed by those on the receiving end. Here, seven academics offer their tips on good refereeing, and reflect on how it may change in the years to come

The furore over Brian Wansink’s data handling overlooks the fact that science should above all be about explanation, argues Martin Cohen

Both the rationale and the mechanism for redistributing research activity around the regions are far from clear cut, say Sarah Chaytor and Graeme Reid   

More than 60 US institutions to work with 800 others worldwide in tackling global strategy on environment, education and equality

What single change to university practice would have the most positive and far-reaching consequences? Eight academics and thinkers give us their views

IQ tests are conceptually muddled measures of learned knowledge, self-confidence and social background, says Kenneth Richardson

Analysis of rankings data suggests ߣߣÊÓƵ has made ground and without an apparent cost to research quality

ߣߣÊÓƵ’s twice-unlucky research grant applicants raise questions about the assessment process, but they could help elevate science as an election issue, says John Ross

Latest edition of Clarivate analysis suggests nation is on upward trajectory

University of British Columbia professor quits leadership of Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in protest at funding reforms

Conference hears how the biases of historic collections need to be addressed

Chester’s Tim Grady, recently shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, is proof that smaller universities can produce researchers who compete with the elite. John Morgan writes

Jack Grove asks whether those who lead academic departments and universities can still realistically find the time to be effective researchers

Survey also reveals citations have little influence over the content of a paper, raising questions over citation metrics