‘Exciting’ UK plan for rival funder ‘may change minds’ on Horizon
Science minister George Freeman claims academics may warm to leaving EU research scheme if homegrown alternative offers attractive global opportunities
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Racial critique of Supreme Court pick imperils Georgetown posting
Conservative’s appointment as constitutional studies chief derailed over demeaning Biden plan for black female Supreme Court nominee
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Bomb threats swamp US’ black-serving colleges
Nearly 20 HBCUs get phoned-in threats at start of Black History Month, bringing lockdowns, remote classes and vows of resilience
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Overseas students angry as Western Australia again changes rules
No apparent health rationale for ‘impossible’ new deadline, as requirements rewritten for third time in a week
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Oxford postdoc ‘pushed out’ after authorship row, tribunal hears
Long-time postdoctoral scientist says he was ousted when he complained a professor had appropriated his own research
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US-China research collaboration ‘waning’
Growth in co-publications slowed in 2020 and so far shows decline for 2021
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Preprints ‘largely unchanged’ by peer review, even during Covid
Two separate studies, including one that looked at early Covid papers, suggest majority of alterations are minimal
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UK regions promised research funding boost under ‘levelling up’
Forty per cent increase in investment by 2030 pledged, with BEIS ring-fencing majority of its spending for areas beyond golden triangle
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Sloppy writing is not a sign of sloppy science
Accurate reporting of results is important, but meaning is rarely distorted by orthographic or grammatical slips, says Adrian Furnham
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Stop ‘abusing’ Horizon Europe as bargaining chip, UK and EU urged
Universities across Europe to launch ‘Stick to Science’ campaign warning against ‘politicisation’, as football-style ‘transfer market’ emerges to tempt away UK-based researchers
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Don’t exclude technicians from decision-making, universities told
‘Unsung heroes’ of UK research are too often denied seat at the table, says major review of technical staff and skills
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Darpa deputy returns across Atlantic to lead new UK funder Aria
British-born computer scientist Peter Highnam to lead ‘high-risk, high-reward’ agency
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Australia pledges billions for research commercialisation
But critics say windfall won’t compensate for the money stripped from basic research
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‘Virtually all’ universities risk OfS sanction under new rules
Concern that ‘prioritisation’ process for investigations opens up risk of political interference