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With global warming a priority for the next US president, the International Universities Climate Alliance can lead the academic response, says Ian Jacobs

French scholars, accused of fostering terrorism, fear escalating rhetoric could curtail freedom of research

‘New versions of old pressures’ have emerged amid campus closures and budget cuts

Half of regional governors’ dissertations contained copied text, and these plagiarists went on to perform worse in government, research suggests

For a successful transition to open access, we must respect the needs and requirements for different types of output and disciplines, says Rhodri Jackson

Astrophysicists in Hong Kong and France say that public perceptions of gender should change and that more should be done to support women in science

Tributes paid to ‘an extremely significant figure’ in the assessment of academic English

As the pandemic reshapes both conferencing and publishing, melding talks and papers makes a lot of sense, says Richard Oliver

The potential involvement of the UK, Australia and Canada requires a fair payments mechanism between the EU and associate countries, says Jan Palmowski

THE’s new Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question

Until we stop glorifying self-achievement, collaboration will remain transactional, say Maru Mormina, Romina Istratii and Alex Lewis

Female academics, especially mothers, face the double challenge of patriarchy and neoliberal management

The pandemic has brought the power and consolations of scholarship to the fore. But with a particularly grim Halloween upon us, M. R. James’ ghost stories warn us that the pursuit of knowledge does not always end well, writes Shane McCorristine

Those who make the loudest noises about equality can be among the most myopic about the evils of academic inbreeding, says Bruce Macfarlane

UK minister Kemi Badenoch’s disavowal of the theory plays into a misleading right-wing narrative, says Hannah Robbins

The establishment of online learning and the routine use of email were long overdue, argues Ali Adnan Mohammed

Supporting pure open access publishers can save money and help cement the transition to full open access, says Helen Dobson

Urgent action is needed to help doctoral candidates whose research has been halted by Covid-related travel bans, says Lorena Gazzotti

If governments commit extra funding and researchers accept the growing industrial emphasis, the European Research Area can fly, says Jan Palmowski

‘I cannot express how incredibly uncontroversial it is to ask for money to perform skilled work,’ says James Heathers

Publications must always permit debate on the quality and relevance of research – plus the efficacy and costs of derived policy, says Robert Dingwall

Humanities scholars play a crucial role in communicating with the public during Covid

LSHTM director thinks communications failures explain why US and UK trail Vietnam and Senegal on pandemic responses 

Largely symbolic move comes amid worsening diplomatic ties and after Australia revoked Chinese scholars’ visas

Jean-Eric Paquet warns that on open data, research collaboration and academic mobility, EU-China links are not always reciprocal

Head of UK Research & Innovation will urge scientists to help shed public view that research is an ‘elite and alien world inhabited by boffins’

Education minister Ingrid van Engelshoven says too much research funding is now competitive, leading to intense work stress

The focus on conducting research in independent institutes is holding the country back, say four academics

Blindness gave the late politics professor Roger Williams a unique ability to focus on the structure and coherence of what was being said to him. And though his interrogations could be exacting, Lincoln Allison wishes more sighted academics shared his talent

Set up by young researchers, new publication will highlight where studies went wrong – but it may struggle to attract submissions

Chinese academics coming home from overseas should be seen as a source of new ideas, not sidelined, study says

Not all academics are in a position to churn out endless papers during lockdowns – and not all should, argues Michael Marinetto

Research finds that young Indians particularly ‘resilient’ in their pursuit of education

The Research Australia report has exposed the fault lines in health research funding, says Ross Coppel 

Managers must acknowledge that supervising some types of doctoral candidates is more labour-intensive, say Roger Watson and David Thompson

Bradley Garrett has crossed the globe to meet those who stockpile food in fortified shelters in anticipation of apocalyptic disasters. As a global pandemic seems to confirm some of their fears, he tells Jack Grove what we can learn from them – and what they’ve got wrong

‘Every young student of science has had a fantasy about winning a Nobel prize,’ says one laureate – and ever more rival prizes are being established. But with a cast of thousands currently pursuing the holy grail of a vaccine for Covid-19, might awards committees finally jettison their problematic focus on lone genius, asks Jack Grove

The halting of trials for a coronavirus treatment following the publication of dubious data highlights the perils of opacity, says Ron Iphofen

Critics underestimated the human imagination’s capacity to render concepts flexible, says Frank Furedi

Lockdowns, campus protection and the new security law risk permanently cutting off scholars from the city and wider world, says Michael O’Sullivan

Teaching-focused institutions need to concentrate on the aspects of faculty research that contribute to the student experience, says Neil Clarke

This week’s deal will tip the balance back towards fundamental research – and it might not have been done at all, says Jan Palmowski 

Insistence on ‘excellent’ research is commonplace, but Europe’s biggest funders warn that it can damage integrity and foster ruthless competition when poorly defined

Tributes paid to sociologist whose ‘influential work’ on inequalities has proved crucial in understanding and addressing today’s sharp ‘social divisions’

Plan S shift backed by European Commission will be ‘detrimental’ to researchers, says commission-created ERC

Horizon Europe will receive only a tiny fraction of an unprecedented €750 billion pandemic recovery package

Academic research is not having any significant impact on the national economy or health of society, laments Tahir Shah

An oft-overlooked component of the research process is that simple little thing called leadership, says Matthew Flinders

Simplistic performance measures hold research back, says Jim McCluskey, as Melbourne becomes the first Australian university to sign up to Dora

Most doctoral candidates show ‘clear preference’ for academic career despite high exit levels from sector, finds Higher Education Policy Institute study

The ability for PhD students to research previous students’ experience with particular examiners could reduce bad practice 

Covid-19 has underlined the need for more coordinated and comprehensive engagement with policymakers, say David Price, Sarah Chaytor and Andrew Wathey

The elephant expert discusses why her research subjects aren’t as different to humans as we might think

Female representation in Asian academia’s senior ranks is low by international standards. There are some encouraging signs that the situation is being addressed, but might the disproportionate effect of the Covid-19 lockdowns on women undo the good work? Joyce Lau reports

It is those who commit research misconduct – not those who expose them – that damage science, according to David Sanders. But while the biologist has embraced the role of data detective thrust upon him, he wishes more scientists would share the thankless, legally fraught burden

The cash injection announced by the government last week is the most ambitious plan of its kind Ed Byrne has seen in 40 years

Prizewinners argue that researchers have ‘stuck to a line’ about the pandemic’s danger in order to get politicians to listen – risking open debate

Law professor who sits on Germany's constitutional court warns that far-right attacks on ‘weaker’ subjects would be followed by criticism of more mainstream disciplines

Deborah Gabriel also calls for imposition of financial penalties on universities that fail to tackle pay gaps

Erin Hatton draws on an ‘odious comparison’ to illuminate the extraordinary powers coaches and supervisors can wield over their students