What are you reading? 鈥撀14 April 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Not as clever as Einstein? In death, it鈥檚 all relative
Asked how they would like to be remembered, high-achieving physicists cited intellectual accomplishments while others referred to personal qualities
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A Year in White: Newcomers to Lukumi and Santer铆a in the United States, by C. Lynn Carr
Camille Hern谩ndez-Ramdwar on an insider鈥檚 perspective on the struggles and joys of committing to a little-known faith
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, by Janna Levin
Book of the week: Marcus Chown on a portrait of those who drove the Ligo project and helped to find gravitational waves
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Academic freedom under threat in Turkey
The international scholarly community must take meaningful steps to support Academics for Peace, says Mehmet Ugur
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Fixed-term now the norm for early career academics, says UCU
Majority of junior academics are on 鈥榩recarious鈥 short-term contracts, says UCU report that criticises job insecurity
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The week in higher education 鈥 14 April 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Books to read before university
Scholars choose 鈥榚ssential鈥 texts to introduce sixth-formers to the academy
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Pay inequality: academy King Lears should value their Cordelias more
As women claim more space in Shakespeare, why aren鈥檛 universities casting against type and dealing with the gender pay gap? asks Liz Schafer
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The gender pay gap: it鈥檚 not as simple as it looks
The REF-induced movement of male 鈥榬esearch stars鈥 may be one factor contributing to earnings inequities, says Keith Cuthbertson
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Grant winners 鈥 14 April 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 14 April 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Botticelli Reimagined: what will Venus do next?
The impulse to make things relevant is not always facile, says Shahidha聽Bari
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No impact when stuck in neutral
David Walker鈥檚 piece on how we know too little about the impact of the Economic and Social Research Council sounds pretty spot on to me (鈥淚s the ESRC below the radar or out of the loop?鈥, Opinion, 7...