Libraries ‘becoming invisible’ to junior scholars
Many early career researchers have ‘not gone to the library for years’, according to report
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EPSRC wants to know - Where do all the postdocs go?
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is on a mission to find out where the postdoctoral students it funds end up, according to Dame Julia Higgins, the chair of the council. The...
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Top tips for finding a permanent academic job
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor identifies the top academic ‘habits’ postdocs need to reach the next level
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Gendered adjectives: do you want to be described as hard-working?
University staff may often write letters of recommendation in a very gendered way, warns Dame Athene Donald
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Can joint PhDs get more Brits studying abroad?
Joint PhD programmes that split doctoral studies between different universities may help to improve low outward mobility
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What does it take to top the World University Rankings?
Funding, freedom from regulation and staff of the highest calibre are the keys to global success
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Universities must prepare ECRs for life outside academia
Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow
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How likely are academics to confess to errors in research?
Holly Else explores the emotional, reputational and practical barriers to correcting mistakes
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Stanley Mandelstam, 1928-2016
An academic described as a ‘giant in theoretical physics’ has died
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Research funding structures should be tailored to the needs of those doing the science
Early career researchers could benefit most from changes to funding structures, says Sven Sewitz, but he is concerned that there simply isn’t the will to make it happen
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Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab, by Tommaso Dorigo
Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys a gossipy tale of the booms and busts involved in collaborative frontier science
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A line in the sand
Teesside University recently announced that all professors who are not in management roles will have to reapply for their jobs (“University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs”, News...
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Academics worry the Establishment, and it doesn’t make us unpatriotic
Sir Keith Burnett asks if criticising your country means academics are unpatriotic
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Scottish postdocs offered skills training
Life scientist Christine Milburn has returned to her alma mater, Dundee University, as a generic skills training co-ordinator - one of a number of similar posts established by Scotland's universities...
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Oxford helping with childcare
Elena Tobolkina draws attention to the childcare issues facing early career academics in many UK cities (“Which should I choose: my postdoc or my child?”, Opinion, 9 June). It is incorrect to assert...