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‘Strategic obstruction’ by over-possessive researchers is ‘pervasive’ in some disciplines, forcing many scientists to exit sector, paper claims

Finnish researcher Sulo Roukka’s Europop dance anthem won the long-running contest showcasing scientists’ musical and dance talents

With US academia under siege from the Trump administration, universities elsewhere are contemplating offering ‘asylum’ to disaffected researchers. Here, four former US academics now established abroad reflect on the potential culture shock that awaits US émigrés

Recently published jobs data shows difficulties of securing Oxbridge role, plus characteristics of those most likely to be successful

Total of £8.8 billion given to UK’s main research funder a real-terms cut but likely to be viewed favourably amid Whitehall spending reductions

New consortium will seek to ‘supercharge’ efforts to address lack of black researchers in UK academia

Seven in 10 institutions allow students to take remote tests unsupervised, casting doubt on ‘validity’ of degrees, study finds

UK research funders and philanthropists must step up efforts to incentivise disaffected academics to cross Atlantic, says Venki Ramakrishnan

Sector bodies hit out at lack of focus on cash-strapped sector crucial for driving economic growth and defence innovation

Digital fashion founder will head up £1.1 billion innovation funding agency after a year-long search for new executive chair

Tropical disease researcher and parliamentarian Lauren Sullivan talks about difficulties of returning to the lab after a career break, juggling family, science and politics, and why Dundee’s life science sector must be supported

Board minutes show research council leaders assessing options including ‘NHS Catapult’ as they seek to meet government priorities

With its Trump-style promise to smash woke ideology on campus, Germany’s far-right populist party is widely seen as a threat by academics. And with even the country’s mainstream parties promising little for higher education or research, few are relishing Sunday’s election. Emily Dixon reports

Subscribing to nearly everything published by journals is no longer feasible in these financially straitened times but librarians can provide creative workarounds to ensure journal access, says Liam Bullingham

Delayed introduction of England’s campus free speech act will help scholars confront bias confirmation propagated by social media bubbles, argue Carla Ferstman and Faten Ghosn

Lack of transparency over how excellence-based allocations are spent makes them vulnerable as Russell Group makes case for flexible research funding

Unprecedented hike in UK Research and Innovation minimum PhD stipend will seek to place it in line with national living wage

Nobel laureates back calls to pause new system of Medical Research Council funding which threatens future of well-established research units

Provocative paper claims boycott of feminist title left early career scholars high and dry while others profited from ‘moral entrepreneurship’

Plagiarism accusations that led to the downfall of black US academics and politicians have sparked criticisms of ‘sloppy’ writing practices. But these controversies actually reveal how academics are struggling with the many writing technologies now essential to their jobs, argues Genevieve Creedon

With its focus on breakthrough research and innovation, Manuel Heitor’s plan for European research should be commended, says Jan Palmowski

Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016 prompted a slew of academic books grappling with how such a figure could have been chosen to lead the free world. But what are the chances that any of those bleak tomes will dissuade American voters from re-electing him next month, asks Matthew Reisz

Few physical sciences researchers are sharing their results in a way that can be easily used by other scholars, analysis finds

Next year’s review must consider why the equality charter now views ‘gender as a spectrum’, in addition to questions of cost and effectiveness, says Lucy Hunter Blackburn

Forcing UKRI-backed researchers to publish their papers as preprints would save £40 million annually and ‘accelerate scientific progress’, says thinktank

Universities should reflect upon the intellectual life and sacrifices of South Africa’s student activists as they mark milestones, says Mashupye Maserumule 

Money awarded under Horizon Europe Guarantee helped scholars remain competitive as Britain returns to Europe’s research programme, says UKRI’s international champion

Call for an ‘immediate ceasefire’ is scarcely better than the ‘stop arming Ukraine’ motion that led to resignations a year ago, says Christopher Phelps

Strategic silence of vice-chancellors within our national debate is a mistake when the quest for truth is so central to academia, argues Sir Geoff Mulgan

From Putin to Orbán, autocrats are using postcolonial theory to flood reading lists with ‘overlooked’ native authors in a drive to further xenophobic identity politics, explain Karolina Koziura, Daniel Palm and Adrian Matus

As an academic, I have found my best holidays to be anything but a vacation from intellectual life, says Lincoln Allison

Rethink on Research Excellence Framework’s demand that submitted monographs should be freely available follows fierce condemnation of a policy described as ‘unaffordable’ and ‘excessively bureaucratic’

Fed up with a lowly position on the author list? If so, getting creative with surnames could be the solution, a study suggests

Teaching UK degrees abroad promised adventure, sunshine and a regular pay cheque. But navigating an environment in which many students couldn’t speak English, senior academics acted like dukes and oversight from the UK was patchy at best left Anthony Killick disillusioned

Ever-expanding numbers of doctoral students may suit universities, but one’s twenties should be a time for broad learning and professional development, not for burying oneself in detailed research, says Lincoln Allison

Having brokered some of the world’s biggest pacts on global warming, MIT climate scientist Susan Solomon tells Matthew Reisz why she is optimistic that environmental damage can be reversed

Scale of research precarity at top UK university and its effect on staff laid out in new report

Poll finds most researchers are using AI but only a tiny number trust technology companies on data privacy

Home Office notification of Sue Agazie highlights ‘weaponisation of immigration status’ by universities when students complain, say critics

As the celebrated children’s historical sketch show marks its 15th anniversary, Jack Grove speaks to its head writer, history producer and PhD researchers on how scholarly sleuthing has been crucial to its long success

India’s surge in patent applications and awards resembles China’s pathway towards becoming a knowledge economy, says Pushkar

Inflated marks, overworked staff and politically compromised courses are the price of exploiting offshore UK-registered students, says Michael Day

University of Miami president Julio Frenk explains how his institution is reaping rewards from the tech and finance influx to south Florida

The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial public benefit needs to be supported by profit-making activity, argues Martin Mills

Plans to introduce 20 per cent ‘baseline’ for research time will harm university’s standing in academia and beyond, warns critic

Debate risks legitimising dehumanising ideologies, but rebutting such views is how progress has always been made, says Eric Heinze

Scholarly inquiry is already improving UK society, but its full impact won't be felt until researchers better engage with policymakers, says Rita Gardner

The weaponisation of plagiarism allegations to remove Harvard’s president is no cause for celebration, says research fraudbuster David Sanders

Pressure to publish seen as ‘contributing factor’ to recent suicides, as Madras faces backlash on doctoral monitoring

Fund of £20 million to support early- and mid-career researchers from black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds

Barely half of postgraduate researchers in the UK and Australia feel like they are part of a community of postgraduate researchers, according to major survey

Researchers will work with faculty co-led by Sir Tony Blair at huge new multidisciplinary institute funded by Oracle software magnate Larry Ellison

Increased scale of new German-Dutch imprint will speed transition to open access publishing and allow more investment in infrastructure

From dedicating time for brainstorming to taking inspiration from their dog, five writers explain how they are changing their approach to academia and life as another academic year begins in the northern hemisphere

‘Astonishing demand’ to suspend book launch over claims that its essays ‘delegimitise trans people’ shows activists have been ‘emboldened’, say editors

Nobel-winning scientists are now using large language models, but experts say their impact on research is only just starting

Barack Obama’s favourite political thinker Yascha Mounk has made his career attacking right-wing populism. His latest target – identity politics fostered on US campuses – will surprise many of his acolytes, he tells Matthew Reisz

Cedars poll highlights toxic working environments in British universities that REF’s focus on research culture aims to tackle

Affordable AI-powered writing software offers some hope to scholars unfairly criticised for their imperfect English, but more radical change is required, says Natalia Kucirkova

If Stanford’s now-departed president had fully faced up to dubious practices in his lab and insisted on corrections, his infractions of research integrity could have been forgiven, says David Sanders