Conference call: more questions than answers
Q and A sessions, the misunderstood B-sides of conference presentations, can play some peculiar tunes. Allan Johnson listens in and doesn’t like what he hears
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Crime centre plans to probe data for con jobs
Teesside’s Centre for Realist Criminology to probe stories behind the statistics
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ESRC launches ‘urgency grants’
Funds to be available quickly for research into rare, unfolding events
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News in brief - 29 August 2013
ThailandOrigami for eyes to defeat cheatsStudents at a Thai university will not take any more exams while wearing paper blinkers on their heads. Lecturers in the Faculty of Agro-Industry at Kasetsart...
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News in brief - 29 August 2013
Technology strategy supportCetis consultancy relaunchedThe Centre for Educational Technology, Interoperability and Standards has been relaunched with a remit to widen its client base. Last year, the...
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Crick Institute to give 12-year core funding to early career scientists
Independence enables biomedical laboratory to offer stability and freedom to researchers
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THE Scholarly Web - 29 August 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Arthur C. Aufderheide, 1922-2013
A “mummy doctor” who combined a distinguished career as a pathologist with pioneering research on the diseases of the ancient world has died
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Appointments - 29 August 2103
Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisAnthony ‘AJ’ Baucum IIAnthony “AJ” Baucum II, recently appointed assistant professor of biology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,...
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Campus round-up - 29 August 2013
Source: PADry run for disasterA mock terror attack may furnish valuable insights into emergency service response. Academics from King’s College London monitored the emergency procedures deployed for...
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Strictly Gaia
I would like to thank John Gilbert (Letters, 15 August) for his kind words about my book On Gaia (reviewed by Jon Turney, 8 August). However, I would like to clarify that I do not make a “category...
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Altruistic contributions
Tabulating the place of UK universities in terms of their contribution to industry (“Korean kudos (UK also-rans)”, 15 August) presents only a partial view of the external role of the university...
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Slow food for thought
Gary Thomas (“Have to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time”, 15 August), as befits a professor of education, believes that with reference to intelligence “our abilities are getting...
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Right combination
As much as I can see why many people would think that overturning the Oxbridge rule of combination would make the applications process “fairer” (“Competition questions over rule that restricts...