All Academia articles – Page 52
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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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News
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
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News
India still outside chemistry's ‘big league’
Analysis finds China is leaving India behind when it comes to papers in top chemistry journals
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News
Women going for professor thwarted by female interviewers
Study finds female assessors on tenure committees less likely to appoint women than all-male panels
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News
Higher education reforms rushed through
Bill passed before parliament’s dissolution will bring seismic changes to UK research landscape
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News
International mobility vital for researchers, survey suggests
Of more than 1200 researchers polled by the UK national academies, 95% have been part of an international collaboration
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News
New 'brain drain' warning from MPs
UK higher education at risk after Brexit as one in six staff is an EU national
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News
'Hard Brexit' threat to skilled workers
Migration model suggests scientists and other professionals will avoid the UK
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Opinion
Time to stop using patents to measure innovation in universities
The number of filed patents is a misleading metric for assessing academic research
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News
Research integrity report calls for change to flawed system
A US National Academies panel has proposed measures to help curb scientific misconduct
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News
India’s university chemistry facilities in need of overhaul
Academics say outdated lab infrastructure is putting students at risk
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News
Researchers protest law that attacks Hungary’s Central European University
Legislation that has been rushed through parliament could see the US-owned university closed
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Opinion
Rankings shouldn’t matter, but they do
Scoring universities is flawed yet still highly influential
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Careers
How to put together a research proposal
The five points researchers should remember when pitching for funds
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News
Spanish government promises U-turn on researcher contract downgrades
The cabinet will reverse changes that saw thousands of pre-doctoral research contracts effectively turned into internships
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News
Brexit trigger leaves UK science pondering future
Fears around funding, staff retention and students after article 50 triggered