Russian pseudoscience has fuelled the bloodshed in Ukraine
Failure to expel crackpot social scientists from Russia’s academy has allowed dangerous dogma to dominate public discourse, says Andreas Umland
Failure to expel crackpot social scientists from Russia’s academy has allowed dangerous dogma to dominate public discourse, says Andreas Umland
Former Paris-Saclay president Sylvie Retailleau must prove she can be a minister for all universities, say sector leaders
Your new manager likely doesn’t have a PhD, and she’s higher on the food chain because experience is more valued than a doctorate, says Janelle Ward
Twitter has long been bedevilled by bad-faith debate. But government must be held to a higher standard, even when it is flying a kite
Comparisons with big pharma distract from ‘amazing’ achievement that will lead to long-term dividends for science, say experts
The department’s threat to ban international students from all but the top UK universities is totally counterproductive, says Nick Hillman
Backed by state government, an ambitious university-led initiative is aiming to restore the Ruhr Valley’s former industrial glory. John Morgan meets academics behind the experiment in driving...
As vaccination programmes offer the prospect of a return to physical teaching, what aspects of their pre-pandemic life will academics most heartily re-embrace (or at least touch elbows with)? And are...
Our work-life balance survey finds the inevitable: that for many if not most in academia, workloads are unmanageable, and seem to be getting worse
Australian High Commission in India web page on education had link to US company offering to write dissertations, application letters and more
Government issues arrest warrants for students and files complaint against an overseas academic as protests, some held on university campuses, intensify
Narratives describing research in departments should be replaced by institution-level document, recommends funder-backed study
Coyness, contention and competing agendas all hamper historians and sociologists of sex. Matthew Reisz speaks to those who choose, nevertheless, to probe this most sensitive and intimate of subjects
Taxi drivers are a good source of inspiration on profound questions of alien life, intergalactic travel and deep space exploration, says British scientist