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Publishing is part of the academic game, says Mike Smith, so you’d better get good at it 

Adam Szetela has been speaking to some high profile scholars about how to write well, and this is what he found out

Intense polarisation of Turkish diaspora, plus online harassment, means refugee scholars feel they are being watched

Multinational research teams can now bid for money in any scientific area, although funders do not expect security-sensitive projects

Social scientists are innovating to ensure their research is relevant, but more must be done, says Rick Delbridge

Firm steps up collaboration with university as world’s biggest tech companies race to harness quantum physics

Chris Parr picks through some of the highlights from the tuition fees debate between David Willetts and Andrew Adonis

University leaders frustrated by lack of clarity on higher education in party manifestos

The solutions to the predatory publishing problem are known, we just need to implement them, say Larissa Shamseer and David Moher

Two UK institutions lead our ranking of the best universities for the first time in its history, with Oxford holding on to the number one spot for the second year in a row, while Cambridge has risen to second place

Eric Royal Lybeck says the Russell Group and UUK do not represent academics and calls for a comprehensive voice representing the professional interests of scholars

Matthew Reisz reflects on the radio programme that proves many people still have a passion for seemingly obscure academic knowledge

University of Debrecen bestows honour following involvement in Russian-funded nuclear plant

More work is needed to understand the mental health needs of researchers, say Susan Guthrie and Catie Lichten

A neuroscientist and explorer who became ‘a great champion of inclusion and belonging’ has died

Lack of job security, limited support from management and weight of work-related demands on time among risk factors

Spreading the word on social media about research can help academics get ahead, but is it too much of a distraction, asks Brooke Erin Duffy

Joanne Taylor and Genefor Walker-Smith on the importance of scholarly rigour – even when the media want answers fast

Post-Brexit university funding issues are about more than the big pots of research cash, writes Gurpreet Jagpal

German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?

Nazima Kadir’s social circle reveals a range of alternative careers for would-be scholars, and often with better rewards than academia

Universities are at least aware of the gender pay problem, says Alex Holmes, but there is still work to be done

There is no ‘hard divide between academics and administrators’, writes Charles Knight in response to criticisms of academic university staff

Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan defied threats to uncover high-level ring of fraudulent PhDs

It is not Luddism to be cautious about destroying an academic publishing industry that has served us well, says Marilyn Deegan

Exams this coming autumn semester to be affected

Tony Hey charts the progress of the US and UK Open Science movement 

Andy Westwood gives his verdict on Jo Johnson's big HE speech

Scholars are ignorant of many aspects of peer review, and part of the problem is that researching it is a bit like kicking the hornet’s nest, says Martin Eve

From the Victorian slum-dwellers whose lives were transformed after they found a warbling rodent, to the jazz-like sound of mouse music, Richard Sugg says that if you take strange stories seriously, you may find something beautiful

Economists’ stock plummeted with the financial crash. The authors of a new book suggest that reading novels could sharpen their insights, while four academics consider how the field might need to change

On International Women in Engineering Day, Alice Larkin decries the slow progress on improving gender balance in her discipline

Texas-born scholar Angelia Wilson talks to Matthew Reisz about the changing face of political studies, Trump and the Christian Right, and a Bible Belt road trip

Glen Wright on the lighter side of scholarly collaboration

Hong Kong, Netherlands and Malaysia also score highly in British Council research analysing policy environments in 38 countries 

Are scholars really so out of touch with the real world or do we need to look again at this tired narrative that doesn’t reflect the reality of modern academia, asks James Georgalakis

But research organisations say proposed directive does not go far enough and could hinder links with companies

European Parliament calls for start of proceedings that could strip Hungary of EU voting rights

Overseas members and evaluators excluded in what critics claim is a power grab

As talks begin on Horizon 2020 successor, advisory body says level of competition prevents open data sharing

New president keen to support Paris institution’s ‘agility’, according to its leader

One in three scholars in field ‘deeply concerned’ about future research career prospects

Academics should get out of their bubbles and engage, not deride, says Rachel Carey

Polls show ebbing support for ruling Fidesz party after move against Central European University

UK universities rely on international researchers, say Susan Guthrie and Catie Lichten, but is the pressure on researchers to be mobile too great?

Jessa Rogers looks at the disappointing picture for Indigenous scholars in the academy

Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators

Susan Michie calls for a radical upgrade in the use of social science to tackle poor public health

Larissa Shamseer and David Moher have taken a close look at what it is that sets dodgy journals apart from the rest

Military might and border walls are of more importance than compassion in Trump’s America, says John Fea

Discussion of research excellence framework reform has overlooked the role of research itself, argues Kevin Hetherington

Car carrying Charles Murray attacked at Middlebury College, reports say

Universities cannot wash their hands of responsibility for who is booked to speak on their premises, says Michael Marshall

Charity says Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford is ‘naive’ to hire out its premises for event

‘Conditioning’ is partly to blame when junior researchers tone down their work, says Ciaran Gillespie

Game-playing, ‘spurious precision’ of league tables and heavy workloads also highlighted by insiders from 2014 audit

Traditional defences of the discipline are based on unsound reasoning, writes James Nikopoulos

Researchers on large-scale projects would receive less credit under proposed scheme