All Academia articles – Page 49
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News
Italian unions denounce unequal R&D investment
Universities being left out in the cold by funding decisions
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Europe trailing the US on top science
US up to three times better when it comes to making ground-breaking discoveries
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Monument to ‘anonymous peer reviewer’ unveiled
Sculpture celebrates ‘invisible heroes’ of science
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Scientists fight back against Romanian reforms
Plans will exclude foreign and overseas academics from research assessments
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Chemistry journal introduces ‘intelligent crowd’ peer review
Online platform aims to make peer review faster, unbiased and less of a burden on researchers
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Older researchers crowding out younger ones
Over three decades biomedical grants for basic science have shrunk for young group leaders in the US
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Careers
Walking the Planck: the most-pirated chemistry journals on Sci-Hub
Papers from Nature have been downloaded over 234,000 times from Sci-Hub, making it the most-pirated journal on the site
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Opinion
Chemistry's piracy problem
‘Black’ open access is forcing a shake-up of chemistry journal publishing
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Opinion
Cross-party consensus on funding science at last
Whoever wins the UK election science will benefit with promises to double R&D spending
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Value of EU to UK chemistry revealed
Brexit threatens almost a quarter of chemistry departments’ funding grants
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Public donations sought for career returners’ chemistry fellowship
Crowdfunding campaign aims to raise £500,000 for a five-year research post at the University of Oxford
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What you need to know about the UK higher education shake-up
How will students, academics and universities be affected?
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Opinion
What could peer review look like in 2030?
AI, credit for reviewers and more pre-prints: Mark Peplow considers the options
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News
Predicting which undergrads will succeed in chemistry
So-called ‘abstraction learners’ consistently outperform those that depend on memory in introductory and higher-level chemistry courses
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Canada’s research universities under pressure to diversify
Only 30% of Canada Research Chairs are women and universities will see funding pulled if things don’t improve
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The great beauty of chemistry
Heritage science is growing fast and Rocco Mazzeo wants more chemists to chip in
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Feature
200 years of Gmelin’s handbook
2017 marks 200 years since Leopold Gmelin first published his influential handbook – and it’s still going strong, as Mike Sutton discovers
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News
UK crops at risk if EU pesticide ban expanded
Agricultural research institute calls for unbiased research on pesticides linked to bee decline
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Ex-Harvard postdoc sues university for drug royalties
Former Harvard chemist says he lost out on millions after the technology he worked on was licensed to Merck & Co
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Opinion
Countering gender bias at conferences
Re-structuring presentation programmes could make meetings more accessible