Academics’ top tips for publishing success
Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews
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The UKRI monopoly risks stifling innovation
Ministers are foolish to abandon the conclusions of the 1971 review that has informed UK research policy for 45 years, say Donald Braben and John Dainton
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Laurie Taylor – 28 September 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Prize and prejudice?
Despite their scientific achievements, women account for only 5% of Nobel prize-winners. It diminishes them – and the award, says John Gill
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Pro-colonialism paper: how did it get published?
We are writing to complain about the recent publication of the article “The case for colonialism” by Bruce Gilley in the journal Third World Quarterly (“Pro-colonialism paper outcry prompts author to...
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Be so bold
The response suggested by Sir Anton Muscatelli, the chair of the Russell Group, to the criticism buffeting UK universities is both dispiriting and lacking in boldness (“Ignore the cacophony of...
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Premier rates
Are we asking the right question about vice-chancellors’ pay (“Because they’re worth it?”, Features, 14 September)? Is it them, or is the prime minister getting enough? The population of Canada’s...
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Pirate's code
On the matter of vice-chancellors’ pay, and with apologies to Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan: I am the model of a university vice-chancellorOn any given question I’m a very able answererI’ve headed...
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Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease, by Carolyn A. Day
Book of the week: Shahidha Bari enjoys a study of how tuberculosis influenced notions of attractiveness and breeding
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What are you reading? – 28 September 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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World in brief – 28 September 2017
United States Right-ear advantage Inside Higher Ed reported on recent cases in which universities have ensured that figures from the Right speak on campus, while speakers on the Left have been “...