Making other plans
Universities benefit from the large pool of cheap labour provided by PhD students and postdocs, but there aren鈥檛 enough academic jobs to go around, so young scholars should prepare for the...
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News in brief
Digital humanitiesNo-holds BardA large-scale digital resource whose first tranche covers the writings of "Shakespeare and his immediate contemporaries, antecedents and successors" has been launched...
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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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Access all areas: developing go-anywhere academics
Matthew Reisz reports on plans to help European academics think, speak and act transnationally
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All-terrain scholars pursue fluency in different cultures
Forum discusses efforts to increase mobility of Europe鈥檚 academics
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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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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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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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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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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