Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil
Book of the week: If all-seeing ‘miracle’ tech is making the decisions we must demystify the tricks, says Danny Dorling
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Your toughest experiment: taking the lead in the lab
Eight scientists share the secrets of being a successful principal investigator
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Skewed: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias, by Larry Atkins
From Fox News to the race for the White House, this work is all about politics, says Sharon Wheeler
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What are you reading? – 8 September 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens, by Daniel L. Hatcher
Angelia Wilson on how vulnerability means profitability when deregulation and privatisation come to health and social care
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Being an Early Career Feminist Academic: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges, edited by Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland
Young scholars tell it like it is but is knowledge of replaceability a bar to change? asks Finn Mackay
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Landmark study confirms graduate premium variations
Analysis of Labour Force Survey data reveals extent of earnings boost for university leavers
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Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence, by Nathan Emery
A crow named Betty is one of the highlights in a fascinating study of an exciting area of research, says Tim Birkhead
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The week in higher education – 8 September 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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New and noteworthy – 8 September 2016
This week’s bookish things to do: brush up your Shakespeare, explore a mother of a holiday, put paid to the rentiers and count the cost of London’s Olympics
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The American studies melting pot
Christopher Phelps surveys a field that lends itself to interdisciplinarity, while a British scholar laments that UK institutions prefer Americans for Americanists
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Grant winners – 8 September 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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How Russell Group dominates research funding
This graph shows the dominance of Russell Group universities in attracting quality-related research funding from Hefce, which is based on the results of the REF
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Laurie Taylor – 8 September 2016
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