What are you reading? – 14 April 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Not as clever as Einstein? In death, it’s all relative
Asked how they would like to be remembered, high-achieving physicists cited intellectual accomplishments while others referred to personal qualities
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A Year in White: Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States, by C. Lynn Carr
Camille Hernández-Ramdwar on an insider’s perspective on the struggles and joys of committing to a little-known faith
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, by Janna Levin
Book of the week: Marcus Chown on a portrait of those who drove the Ligo project and helped to find gravitational waves
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Academic freedom under threat in Turkey
The international scholarly community must take meaningful steps to support Academics for Peace, says Mehmet Ugur
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Fixed-term now the norm for early career academics, says UCU
Majority of junior academics are on ‘precarious’ short-term contracts, says UCU report that criticises job insecurity
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The week in higher education – 14 April 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Books to read before university
Scholars choose ‘essential’ texts to introduce sixth-formers to the academy
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Pay inequality: academy King Lears should value their Cordelias more
As women claim more space in Shakespeare, why aren’t universities casting against type and dealing with the gender pay gap? asks Liz Schafer
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The gender pay gap: it’s not as simple as it looks
The REF-induced movement of male ‘research stars’ may be one factor contributing to earnings inequities, says Keith Cuthbertson
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Grant winners – 14 April 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 14 April 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Botticelli Reimagined: what will Venus do next?
The impulse to make things relevant is not always facile, says Shahidha Bari
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No impact when stuck in neutral
David Walker’s piece on how we know too little about the impact of the Economic and Social Research Council sounds pretty spot on to me (“Is the ESRC below the radar or out of the loop?”, Opinion, 7...