Doctoral despair and academic arrogance fuel new graphic novel
French cartoonist finds rich comic potential in the PhD she never finished
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Academics With Cats 2016: the winning photographs
Glen Wright reveals the best #AcademicsWithCats of 2016
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Cambridge: Brexit ‘cliff edge’ risks huge fall in EU student numbers
Universities warn parliamentary inquiry that Brexit vote already deterring staff and students from coming to UK
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Libraries ‘becoming invisible’ to junior scholars
Many early career researchers have ‘not gone to the library for years’, according to report
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Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab, by Tommaso Dorigo
Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys a gossipy tale of the booms and busts involved in collaborative frontier science
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Women are too often actively sidelined against their will
In academia, and more widely, women are?too easily relegated to the ‘less competent than men’ category, writes Dame Athene Donald
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Gendered adjectives: do you want to be described as hard-working?
University staff may often write letters of recommendation in a very gendered way, warns Dame Athene Donald
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Career advice: how to lead a research team
Five top European academics offer advice on how to mentor, manage and expand a research team
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Here’s what you need to know about ‘failure’ before you start your PhD
Taking an unconventional?route after studying for a doctorate should not be seen as a failure, says Fiona Whelan
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How likely are academics to confess to errors in research?
Holly Else explores the emotional, reputational and practical barriers to correcting mistakes
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If you stay put as a PI, be sure to move out of the shadows
Starting out as a principal investigator in your postdoctoral institution can make sense, but you need to make sure you stand apart from your former boss, says Laura Piddock
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Let the right ones in
I am quite shocked that the number of “ghost” authors is so high and that there are therefore a significant number of academics who are cutting out graduate students and postdocs from receiving...
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What does it take to top the World University Rankings?
Funding, freedom from regulation and staff of the highest calibre are the keys to global success
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Stanley Mandelstam, 1928-2016
An academic described as a ‘giant in theoretical physics’ has died