Research Intelligence - The doctor will advise you now
PhDs and postdocs turn to social media to answer their pressing questions. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Work and other labours of love
Academics and others discuss a typical working week
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European University Institute鈥檚 renaissance thinking
Jack Grove on a European institution鈥檚 mission to foster cross-border scholarship
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Worldwide acclaim for ground breaking local heroines
Matthew Reisz on the awards that highlight the developing world's leading young female scientists
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Letters
Doctoral talking shops are the best we鈥檝e gotThe feature 鈥淲him and rigour鈥 (25 April) does not provide an entirely thorough analysis. It asks if the viva is still fit for purpose, so it should have...
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I'd have to be mad to leave here, they said - and they were right
Surprise gave way to empathy when Terran Lane gave up a tenured post, full of anger and sorrow at the erosion of an institution he loved
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Hoffmann's Nobel input 'distant' from bench work
Researcher queries extent of professor's contribution to prizewinning immunity study. Paul Jump writes
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Faking it
A renowned immunologist whose life was turned upside down when it emerged that one of his postdoctoral researchers had falsified experimental results tells Paul Jump that the sector needs a culture...
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The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
An exploration of the dark side of the neuroscience force leaves Tristan Bekinschtein hungry for more
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Research intelligence - Government's go-to agency for growth seeds scholarly field
Technology Strategy Board aims to yield economic harvest with sector's help. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Research intelligence - Breaking through the glass ceiling
A new initiative aims to tackle the 'leaky pipeline' for women in UK science, reports Nicola Davis
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News in brief
Open-access publishingCORE melds UK repositoriesA search engine that allows researchers to search all of the papers held in the UK's 142 open-access repositories has been developed by The Open...
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No fixed address
A postdoctoral position was once the passport to a research post for life. But the inexorable growth in numbers of postdoctoral researchers means competition for academic careers is fierce. Paul Jump...