Peer reviewing: a good deed and a good career move, too
Early career scholars will help themselves as well as others by assessing papers, abstracts, grant proposals and book chapters. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Universal case studies would lighten the REF load
Dominic Dean has a plan to make future assessment exercises easier, quicker and better
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The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information, by Frank Pasquale
The big players in finance and technology misuse their power over our lives, says Paul Bernal
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Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond, by Niles Eldredgeh
Simon Underdown on a tale of the development of evolutionary theory
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Teaching Machines: Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology, by Bill Ferster
The use of gadgets to help students is only as effective as the pedagogical methods employed, finds Steve Wheeler
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Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom?, edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole
Miriam E. David urges scholars to engage with essays contributing to wider political debates
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Back to the Garden: Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present, by James H. S. McGregor
Laurence Coupe on an ambitious and challenging exploration of the ecology of the past
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Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity, by Clara Tuite
Jane Stabler on a fascinating account of the aristocrat-poet’s fame
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Mobile students earn more, study finds
Those who spend part of their degree overseas tend to earn more in their first job and are less likely to be unemployed six months after graduating
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When lecturers’ professional and private lives collide
For teachers, the border between the two is porous, says Shahidha Bari
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Potential Architecture: Ambika P3, London
Bold new works exemplify the ethos of a university’s unique underground experimental exhibition space
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Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy, by Frank Close
A biography of a secretive scientist comes with a cast worthy of a le Carré novel, says Jon Turney
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Katerina Deligiorgi, Helen Fulton, Sir John Holman, Karen McAulay and Ruth Mieschbuehler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Head of KAUST rejects calls to condemn restrictions on freedom of speech in Saudi
Jean-Lou Chameau says universities must reflect the societies within which they exist
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What will the end of final-salary pensions mean for academics?
As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms