4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (212+ words) Defining open research isn’t always easy. Historically, we might have viewed it as a series of practices tied to specific phases of the research life cycle – like the open-access publishing that dominated our early forays into openness over the past…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (561+ words) You might’ve come across words like “transparency” or “reproducibility” in the past few years. Perhaps you’ve overheard colleagues talking about data sharing or preregistering a study plan. If you aren’t familiar with open science, it can sound like a collection…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (335+ words) Ad Insertion platform Sarl THUNDER MONETIZATION PTE. LTD. Universities are increasingly expected to prepare students to engage with complex problems that transcend disciplinary boundaries, such as climate change, political polarisation and economic restructuring. Interdisciplinary teaching is an effective way to…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (370+ words) Whatever else it may be, the Jason Arday affair is an illustration – and an acceleration – of the cultural right’s attacks on universities for supposedly being eroded by a fashion for inclusivity that overrides academic merit. At the same time, however,…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (901+ words) Chinese researchers are returning home in growing numbers, motivated to leave the US by a mix of push and pull factors, including a more hostile US foreign policy and larger research budgets in China. Talented scientists making the journey back…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (321+ words) Ad Insertion platform Sarl THUNDER MONETIZATION PTE. LTD. In a time when social and productive challenges are becoming increasingly complex, promoting high-quality research is not the only task facing universities. We in higher education must also create the conditions that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (467+ words) The number of early-career researchers based outside Europe who have won European Research Council (ERC) grants has almost doubled in a year, with nearly all the overseas academics coming from the US. A total of 21 non-European researchers were awarded ERC…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (754+ words) Ad Insertion platform Sarl THUNDER MONETIZATION PTE. LTD. An Australian advisory body is examining whether research security should become a core condition of universities’ registration, in the latest move to shield scientists’ efforts from misuse by malign “actors”. The review…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (630+ words) International students and their families will be prime targets of the Australian government’s postponed “migration crackdown”, according to speculation reported in the national broadsheet. The government plans to emulate the UK by preventing most students from bringing dependants with them,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (590+ words) Scientists are still held in high esteem by the British public despite collapsing trust in many elite UK institutions, new polling suggests – although universities are perceived less favourably. This suggests that “science appears to have weathered [a] collapse in trust…...