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Making a hashtag of it

����Vlog recently encouraged responses to its cover feature “My student nemesis” (16 May) with a Twitter hashtag, #myworststudent. Having dropped some ­Twitter clangers in my time, I...

Tested to destruction

Drawing on personal experience, Adrian Furnham expresses concern over what he sees as peer-review “nightmares” and the “arbitrariness of journal decision-making” (“Take the rough with the smooth”,...

Learn from mistakes to get treatment right

“Unwanted side-effects” (30 May) is a thoughtful and balanced account of the issues arising from our research on mass drug administration programmes for neglected tropical diseases, but there is one...

Outdoor lavatory becomes natural history laboratory

Spiders star in scholar’s photographic study

News in brief - 6 June 2013

����Vlog Awards 2013Still time to shineThe closing date for entries to this year’s ����Vlog Awards has been extended to midnight Sunday 16 June. Institutions, departments...

Business scholars make case to keep City University London staff

Cuts to admin staff will harm brand, say Cass Business School academics

Campus round-up - 6 June 2013

Source: Arts University of BournemouthExpress yourselfTwenty budding creatives have been crowned the winners of a university-developed art competition that “supersizes” the best entries on to...

THE Scholarly Web - 6 June 2013

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Appointments - 6 June 2013

Birkbeck, University of LondonMatthew InnesThe new vice-master designate of Birkbeck, University of London, said he felt both “flattered and excited” to have been appointed. Matthew Innes, a...

John A.S. Smith, 1927-2013

An international expert on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has died

Odds and quads - 6 June 2013

Emily Wilding Davison famously stepped into the path of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913

News in brief - 6 June 2013

United StatesTransylvanian head kick bluesAcademics have given their university president a vote of no confidence, a move unprecedented in the institution’s history. Staff at Transylvania University...

Grant winners - 6 June 2013

National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Jill ManthorpeInstitution: King’s College LondonValue: £348,729Service provision for older people...

Lynsey Hopkins, Karen McAulay, Sheila Rowbotham, Nigel Rodenhurst and June Purvis...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham - 6 June 2013