PhD students run professors close in Twitter popularity contest
Study finds that, while senior academics tend to have the most followers on social networking site, the most junior researchers are not far behind
Study finds that, while senior academics tend to have the most followers on social networking site, the most junior researchers are not far behind
Women are greatly underrepresented in the laboratories of the highest-achieving male biology professors in the US, a study has revealed.
Stereotypes, prejudice and laddish behaviour still deter young women interested in physics, engineering and computer science, says Eileen Pollack
Sharing knowledge and information widely is no waste of time, says Philip Moriarty
A researcher who made a major contribution to our understanding of cancer – and paved the way for several new classes of drug – has died
The PubPeer organisers and two other scholars debate the merits and pitfalls of anonymity in peer review
Belgian academia looks enticing and accommodating to UK postgraduates, but Kate Macdonald found that it was for locals only
How can institutions hire and hold top scholars when homes in their cities are out of reach to academics?
Swiss-French scientist says he just wants to have fun
More research spending needed, says head of Brazil’s innovation agency
The president of Imperial College London has spoken directly about the suicide of Stefan Grimm for the first time in public.
The new Russell Group chair on the looming spending review, criticism of elite universities and their leaders, and cycling from one end of the country to the other
You can’t measure human skills the way you do engineering systems, Robert Dingwall and Mary Byrne McDonnell observe
David Bignell reflects on the trials and tribulations of scholarly life in London
Georgia Institute of Technology research reveals extent of ‘ghost’ and ‘guest’ authoring