All Academia articles – Page 59
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NewsChemists take stock of chemical auditing and management
Online auditing platforms may spell the end for log books and shelves of forgotten chemicals
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CareersThe online teacher
Neil Garg plans to transform how students around the world think about organic chemistry – with Bacon. Nina Notman explains
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NewsChemists recognised in 2016 New Year's Honours list
Contributions to research rewarded in the honours list
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NewsAAAS’s controversial chemist nomination withdrawn
Society reverses nomination of UCLA’s Harran as fellow after reviewing committee alerted to Sangji case
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OpinionWhy we need more research risks
Scientists are playing it too safe when choosing topics for investigation, warns Philip Ball
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OpinionHow science can improve research collaboration
An evidence-based approach could help chemists found better investigative partnerships, says Mark Peplow
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NewsIndia maintains scientific edge despite static funding
Historic love affair with chemistry keeps country’s science healthy
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AAAS poised to reconsider Harran’s election to fellow
Review requested for honour for controversial UCLA chemist charged over lab assistant’s death
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Royal Society backs ORCID to identify researchers
From January, authors submitting papers to UK society’s journals will need to have signed up for unique identifier
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CareersThe race to equality
Nina Notman looks at the group and individual efforts to promote racial equality in academia
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NewsResearchers dance the night away for science communication prize
31 PhD researchers put on their dancing shoes in a bid to win ‘Dance your PhD’ competition
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NewsRetracted papers get hooked up to linguistic lie-detector
Study reveals possible link between obfuscation and massaged data in retracted papers
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US universities face federal R&D funding fall
Federal support for higher education R&D in the US lagged behind inflation for the third year in a row
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Opinion
Chop and change
The UK research landscape is in a state of flux and decisions made now will dictate its direction for many years
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NewsChina’s first science Nobel prize exposes anxiety on research
Award raises doubts over competitive funding model that apes western science
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NewsInnovation in biomedical chemistry found wanting
Less than 40% of biomedical and chemical research shown to be ground-breaking with publishing pressures blamed
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NewsChemistry departments running in the red in the UK
Large increase in students and lack of investment may be to blame
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NewsGamblers judge research quality cheaply and well
‘Prediction market’ trial in chemistry departments suggest less arduous way to prepare for research assessment
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NewsFalling Horizon success rates worry research community
Success rates for European research programme drop to 14% as private industry takes larger share of squeezed pot
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CareersGoing green in the lab
From major rebuilds to cost-free measures, there are many ways to improve a lab’s environmental credentials, as Emma Davies finds out