All Academia articles – Page 69
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Post-publication peer review blog launches
Chemists hope forum will be a place where published synthetic methods are scrutinised and lab checks are crowdsourced
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Life at the top
Does an academic chemistry career help or hinder when you move up the ladder? Nina Notman gives us an insight into the role of university leaders
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Shine on you crazy Diamond
The Diamond Light Source based at Harwell, UK, is celebrating its 10th anniversary and five years of operation
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New European universities ranking initiative
U-Multirank is intended to be more fair by taking into account a greater number of performance factors
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Top academics targeted in scheme to boost poorer European regions
The European commission’s pilot will provide funding of up to €2.4 million per post to attract the best researchers
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Building better chemistry
Do lab buildings affect the work of the scientists inside them? James Mitchell Crow surveys some grand designs
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Home office to help student job seekers
Foreign PhD students will get a 12 month grace period to find a job after end of course
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RSC to launch new Chemical Database Service
Society says that the main databases will be accessible in January after protracted negotiations on the future of the service
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RSC acquires rights to Merck Index
The society plans to expand the online presence of ‘chemistry’s constant companion’
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US urged to rethink chemistry graduate education
American Chemical Society report highlights systemic problems like a possible glut of chemistry PhDs and a need to bolster academic lab safety
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FOI exemptions for unpublished research
UK government agrees to amend the Freedom of Information Act so that universities are not compelled to release unpublished data
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Scientists come together to fight EU budget cuts
Open letters from heads of research organisations and 44 Nobel laureates make the case for the economic importance of science
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End of the road for h-index rankings
Criticism leads US group to stop collating ranked list of living chemists
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Russian universities face bleak future
Audit of state run institutes brands 25% as ‘inefficient’ and many may face closure
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Imperial launches second phenome centre
New centre aims to improve diagnoses and inform doctors of the best treatments
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Council to defend UK universities launched
The great and good launch campaign to call for increased university autonomy
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Russia targets top spots in university league tables
Large cash injection planned to push 10–15 universities in to top 100 in global rankings by 2020
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Scientists petition Serbian government to tackle misconduct
Letter alleges plagiarism, cronyism and other bad practices are tolerated and widespread
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British Antarctic Survey merger binned
Cost saving plans are scrapped after outcry by politicians and scientists