More early career scientists winning NIH funding
Leading US science funding agency reports three straight years of record levels of awards to its early-stage applicants, with some gender and racial gains
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Germany’s leading rector wants to end university hierarchies
Walter Rosenthal aims to use German Rectors’ Conference presidency to find common ground between applied science and traditional universities
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Italian postdoc reforms ‘could eliminate 5,000 jobs’
Collapse of government means any extra funding for costlier contracts ‘cannot come for months’
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In Germany, university leaders from the east are still a rarity
Progress is being made on promoting women to top positions, but very few presidents hail from the former Communist bloc
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Casuals, let’s resist universities’ monstrous, penny-pinching ‘systems’
Doing admin is a poor use of your time as an expert. Make sure you invoice for it at your highest rate, says Andy Farnell
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Are true friendships possible in academia?
Alliances with university colleagues can be inspiring and life-affirming but may also be grounded in little more than ambition or survival instinct. Six writers reflect on the joys and challenges of...
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Interdisciplinarity lacks clout to keep its cash
Other disciplines and central administration ‘siphon off’ funding, stunting capacity-building and early career researchers, experts say
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Interview with Marc in het Panhuis
The Dutch scientist on the physics of surfing, his re-entry into additive manufacturing and how he’s ‘drinking from the firehose’ as dean of sport
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Sweden’s education minister vows action against ‘cancel culture’
Minister with a doctorate Mats Persson also tells THE he wants Sweden to attract family-minded international researchers
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Scientists fear funding threat to ‘stellar’ MRC research units
New Medical Research Council funding model will undermine world-famous research centres, claim researchers
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Hundreds of science PhDs face axe as doctoral centres shuttered
Postgraduate training likely to be concentrated in larger universities as EPSRC and Wellcome make cuts
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Daylight on the horizon?
A funding clawback provoked fury from UK scientists, but now all eyes are on a political breakthrough that could reopen the door to Horizon Europe
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Sick of academia? Try the military, says chief defence scientist
ߣߣÊÓƵn armed forces need new blood but are also keen on exchange, says Tanya Monro
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Ukrainian research backed with creation of new maths institute
Four Fields Medal winners and former European Research Council president among advisory board for independent research institute
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Jessica Corner: reforms may ‘substantially shift’ REF weightings
New Research England head reflects on her roundabout route into academia and the future of research evaluation