All Academia articles – Page 69
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News
Figshare to offer institutional data platform
Universities can pay for a scientific repository that will hold all their research in one place and control whether it’s public or private
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NewsCroatian chancellors' pay slashed by 30%
Government claims that rectors were overpaid and that savings will go to fund young scientists
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NewsWith great blogging power… comes great responsibility
Revelations of suspected scientific malpractice have raised questions of just what role the online chemistry community should play in rooting out bad behaviour
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Half of all papers from 2011 are open access
Report’s author claims movement has reached a critical mass with nearly twice as many papers freely accessible as previously thought
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NewsLatvian scientists look for the exit as funding situation worsens
Austerity measures have seen research cash fall to half the levels of 2008 in the Baltic state
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Chinese scientist sentenced over research theft
Researcher working at US university given time served for charges relating to disappearance of vials of promising drug candidate
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NewsSix scientists receive long prison sentences in Turkish coup trial
Academic human rights organisations say that the trial did not meet international standards of justice
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NewsPolish universities invest in chemistry
But concerns of a brain drain persist because of the tortuously slow route to a science faculty position
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NewsThreat to Israeli participation in EU science programme
Rule change means that EU funding cannot go to institutions in occupied territories amid warnings all scientific cooperation could cease
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NewsRussian scientists claim state reform will ‘kill science’
Protesters conduct a symbolic funeral to decry state interference in science academies
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Former student sues Harvard for $10 million
PhD chemist seeks damages in row over patent royalties
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Secular scholars fight government control in Turkey
The attempted suicide in jail of a chemical engineer has contributed to a ‘climate of fear’, say scientists
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Opinion
DNA waves don't wash
Philip Ball asks why a spectacular claim seems to have been overlooked. Sometimes science doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to
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CareersClimbing the ladder
Simon Perks gets some tips to help early career chemists survive in academia
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NewsRussia looks to attract EU students
More state funding will be available to European students with the hope that they will stay on and work in the country
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ReviewResearch project success: the essential guide for science and engineering students
Getting good at research
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NewsScience ‘ecosystem’ needs diversity to flourish
Study concludes that more, smaller grants have a greater impact than fewer, bigger ones
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Business
GSK fires Chinese R&D head in data investigation
Company is retracting a 2010 study in which data were ‘misrepresented’
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NewsPetition calls for science minister to go
Russian scientists begin campain for reforms in science and higher education policy to be altered
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News
Australian budget hits higher education hard
Chemists hope that central relevance of their science to the big questions will afford them some protection from cuts