All Academia articles – Page 44
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News
UK research councils sign responsible research assessment pledge
Funders will discourage the use of impact factors and other journal metrics to judge research
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Community defends chemistry professor facing deportation from US
Over 53,000 sign petition to keep a Bangladeshi chemistry professor from being deported, after his sudden arrest by immigration officials
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Careers
How to become a professor
Want to succeed in academia? Here’s what universities are looking for
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Number of international students applying and enrolling at US universities drops
New data confirms enrolment of overseas student pursuing science and engineering degrees dropped 6% in 2017
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Anonymous survey sheds light on research misconduct
Most academic and industrial scientists polled had either committed or witnessed unethical practices
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A picture speaks a thousand words in new scientific journal
Illustrations will explain the latest research in an accessible way
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US government shutdown ends, but problems for science persist
The compromise that allowed the government to reopen is still worrying the nation’s research community
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Concern over vetting of US science grants by political appointee
National Academies speak out after news of Interior Department’s policy on grants worth more than $50,000 emerges
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Review
You must be very intelligent: the PhD delusion
Philippa Matthews reviews a semi-autobiographical account of a PhD student in the UK
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Chemistry best science in US when it comes to gender pay gap
More than 60% of chemistry doctorates go to men, but the field performs well on equal pay for men and women finding their first job
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UK drug discovery model must ‘break and change’
Report calls for joined-up approach that brings together charities, industry and universities
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Changing political climate threatens US cannabis research
Trump administration reverses rule protecting states with legalised marijuana
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Opinion
A question of reproducibility
Survey of metal–organic frameworks raises concerns about the reliability of adsorption data
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Nobelist Steven Chu is AAAS’s new president-elect
Obama’s former energy department director has been appointed to help lead the world’s largest general scientific society
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New UK science minister appointed in cabinet reshuffle
Sam Gyimah moves from Ministry of Justice to replace Jo Johnson
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Indian science congress moved after fears of student disturbances
Eleventh hour venue change leaves just two months to reorganise country’s largest conference
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Elsevier declines to cut off German universities that cancelled journal subs
Efforts to reach a deal between the publishing giant and 200 institutions protesting prices continue after January deadline passes
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America’s new tax law hits research universities
Warnings that taxing endowments of top universities under the overhauled tax code will threaten research