Lament for the dawn chorus
Bird numbers in Britain and Ireland - monitored with the aid of citizen scientists - are falling. Tim Birkhead calls for action
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Black scholars: trapped on the race track?
African American scholars still struggle for public prominence outside discussions of racial justice, says Daniel Matlin
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Governance gender gap still yawning
Audit finds lack of women on university boards affects female v-c numbers
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Anti-Crisis, by Janet Roitman
Chris Knight on an analysis of crisis as a narrative device
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News in brief - 5 December 2013
ߣߣƵPlea to cut bureaucracyThe main lobbying group for universities in ߣߣƵ has told the federal government’s new commission into public spending that some projects brought in under Labor...
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THE Scholarly Web - 5 December 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Peter Frank, 1934-2013
A leading authority on the Soviet Union (and Yorkshire fishing communities) has died
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Campus round-up - 5 December 2013
Source: © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield, DACS 2013 / © Sir Peter Blake, DACS 2013Modern mastersThe first public exhibition of one of the UK’s most important private collections of modern art has...
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Grant winners - 5 December 2013
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and DeliveryResearch programmeAward winner: Martin C. GullifordInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £349,926Cost-effectiveness of different...
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Lost in the timestream
Miriam David received her PhD from a small number of scholars within what was Queen Mary College, not the institution as a whole (“‘Miss’ no hit with revered alumna”, News, 28 November). How many who...
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Weights and measures
As someone who worked throughout his career at two small but excellent institutions (the universities of Sussex and St Andrews), I find it irritating to see grant income rankings that take no account...
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Lion shares
My pet is a well-known saintly scholar, although he is getting old and whines when our students are not admiring him (“A lick and a premise”, Opinion, 28 November). But his grey whiskers and wrinkled...
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Red tape reification
What is a university for? For the development and dissemination of knowledge and the nurturing of critical, synthetic and analytic thinking. This is done by researchers and teachers who are often one...
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Ethical editing
An interesting debate has been sparked by “WikiTweaks: PR staff wield the airbrush for warts and all removal” (News, 21 November). As Stephen Waddington, president-elect of the Chartered Institute of...
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Loaded questions
“Carry on screaming: burden of assessment proof heavier now than in 2008” (News, 28 November) is spot on: I am one of those “caffeine-addled” research administrators your coverage characterises,...