Daytime TV: Nature of the beast
Gary Day writes on David Attenborough versus God, Lord of the Flies Mark 2, and newspaper survival
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Top scientists in immunology by total citations
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 October 2008
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12 February 2009
Battle for the blue skies - Scientists fight back against ‘barrages of control’ on unfettered research
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An introduction to employment tribunals
Few people, whether employees or representatives of an employer, will look forward to giving evidence at an employment tribunal. Although the tribunal system has been in existence since the 1960s (...
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Moving stories
Many academics have lived the migrant experience – heading into the unknown, feeling the chill of xenophobia and the vagaries of state power but also finding rewards. Tara Brabazon considers the...
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Bullied Blogger: An email fightback
2 February: I don’t sleep through the night any more because I dread going into work each day. There is tension between my partner and I, and I find it hard to concentrate. My workload seems...
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Fees, not bullying, led to my exit, says Lee
Leeds Met v-c denies university claims about concerns over his management approach, reports Melanie Newman
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Time for bed
US students are being advised to stop cramming through the night and get more sleep to raise their academic performance. Jon Marcus reports
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Seriously fresh
A new breed of scholars is expanding the academy by turning music festivals, Lego and puppets into objects and tools of study. Hannah Fearn reports from 'out there'
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Sex and sensibility
Victorian values and the censoring presence of his prudish daughter blinded Charles Darwin to female promiscuity and delayed the study of sperm competition for 100 years, says Tim Birkhead
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Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
A brave attempt to reframe a time of great upheaval in France falls short, says Lynn Hunt
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: How Scarce Energy Is Creating a New World Order
The dust jacket of this book proclaims that "the price of oil has doubled in less than two years. And it is still rising". Not now it isn't.In early 2008, US investment bank Goldman Sachs, at that...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Oxford
1. Corporate Finance by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo. Prentice Hall, £52.36. ISBN 97814082150362. Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies by Wendy Carlin and David Soskice. Oxford...
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Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
Susanne Karstedt admires a model of how to use data analysis and original research creatively
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The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth
The big question this book asks is: how does a leaky roof get fixed? It isn't trivial or ironic at all that Robert C. Ellickson, a professor of law at Yale University, hints that the failures of most...