All Academia articles – Page 14
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CareersPhD students don’t need second jobs – they need paying above minimum wage
Recommended minimum stipends for UK-based PhDs failed to match inflation since 2005, exacerbating the current cost-of-living crisis
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NewsAfrica lays out plan to boost science economy
Pilot European and African Union programme aims to boost early-career researchers with fellowships of up to €500,000
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CareersThe nickel crystal that catalysed collaboration
An apparent scooping turned into something much more valuable
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NewsChemistry appears less often in news than biology or medicine
But chemical research has a strong presence in patents, study finds
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NewsChemistry Nobel laureate Robert Curl dies at 88
Curl’s passing means that all three scientists who won the 1996 chemistry Nobel prize for discovering fullerenes are gone
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NewsSacked US professor given a year in prison for lying about his China links
An ex-electrical engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas sentenced for not disclosing the two dozen patents he filed in China
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NewsBoost for UK XFEL hopes as UKRI unveils research infrastructure plans
Funder will spend £481 million over three years to support cutting edge science including 1.2GHz NMR and Diamond synchrotron upgrade
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NewsAnnette Doherty elected next president of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Head of GlaxoSmithKline’s product development will take up her role in July 2024
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NewsUK researchers losing out as Horizon Europe uncertainty drags on
Grants and leadership opportunities lost amid political wrangling
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NewsThe earlier a chemist wins the Nobel prize the longer they are likely to live
Study suggests chemistry laureates live longer but receive a smaller longevity benefit compared with physics and medicine laureates
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NewsUK launches visa for graduates from highly ranked universities
New scheme omits institutions based in Africa, South Asia or Latin America
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OpinionTeaching-focused staff contribute to REF results too
But are often overlooked in celebrations of research excellence
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NewsNorway sacks its research council’s board over financial mismanagement
Norwegian research funding agency faces massive deficits, leading the government to freeze new research awards and launch an investigation
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NewsAI-generated images could make it almost impossible to detect fake papers
Some researchers worry that deepfake technology could be a new threat to scientific integrity, but others think traditional image manipulation is here to stay
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NewsChinese city seeks to lure top scientific talent with housing subsidies
Wuxi is offering incentives worth £1.2 million to get Nobel laureates and other science superstars to move there
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NewsUkrainian researchers persevering amid war
Publishing, lecturing and lab work continues for a family of chemists in Kyiv
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NewsUK physical science funder acts to rid its peer review of gender bias
EPSRC plans to pilot unconscious bias observers in funding panels and investigate all types of peer review discrimination
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NewsChemistry performs well in latest assessment of UK research
High scores in the Research Excellence Framework will deliver extra funding for departments
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NewsChemistry papers find themselves on the scrapheap quicker than physics ones
50-year-old physics papers are cited seven times more often than those in chemistry