Topping up the trust fund: restoring public confidence in science
In a post-truth era, five academics consider strategies, from inviting laypeople into the laboratory to open vivas, to improve trust in experts
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The university as pillar of the community
Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania deploy a host of financial and intellectual resources to help locals build richer, healthier, more inclusive cities. John Morgan reports
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Academics warn about Brexit threat to university-business links
UK 鈥榥aive鈥 to think that it could replace academic links with European industry with those from elsewhere
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Reality check: alongside uncertainty comes opportunity
Investing in UK science may be cheaper after Brexit but the true cost to innovation system remains to be seen, says Holly Else
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Grant winners 鈥 9 February 2017
A round-up of聽academics awarded research council funding
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The week in higher education 鈥 9 February 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world鈥檚 media
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Deborah Lipstadt: the quest for truth in the post-truth era
How do you defeat Nazis and liars? Focus on the people in earshot, says eminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt
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Take a stand 鈥 and deliver
If Trump and Brexit are the problem, universities are part of the solution, says Sally Hunt. But we must do better than we have
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In dark days, universities must keep the lights on at home
Our age of unenlightenment demands that institutions share their intellectual and moral capital with the communities around them
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Watching the doomsday clock together
Catastrophes are likely to be more swift, global and devastating in our interconnected world, says Martin Rees, so scientists must join forces to keep us safe
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 9 February 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton.聽Finem respice!
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Call them Al? No, call out and tackle bias
I was saddened to read your report that anglicising 鈥渇oreign鈥 names improves employability and student name recognition (鈥淎nglicising foreign students鈥 names 鈥榗ould reduce bias鈥欌, News, 26 January)...
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Hail fellows
Having been approached for comments on the Independent Social Research Foundation鈥檚 latest early career fellowship competition, I was surprised to find that the resulting article, 鈥淓arly career...
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Uncritical reports
Re the article 鈥淭ackle 鈥榬eporting bias鈥 in pedagogy research, paper warns鈥 (News, 2 February). As an academic involved in appraising studies of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the...