Academics want greater recognition for team efforts in research Concern that Covid and award incentives deter scholars from pooling their skills By Ellie Bothwell 25 March
No black applicants for some Royal Society grants for three years Analysis highlights 鈥榰nacceptable鈥 disparities in racial representation in UK science By Anna McKie 25 March
UK seals first European transnational education deal post-Brexit Agreement with Greece鈥檚 Education Ministry will facilitate academic collaboration with country鈥檚 state university sector By Ellie Bothwell 25 March
China steps up targeting of European academics Beijing has banned dozens of China researchers and their families, while the country鈥檚 embassy to France called an expert a 鈥減etty thug鈥 on Twitter By David Matthews 25 March
Bristol happiness course 鈥榠mproves student well-being鈥 Review of UK鈥檚 first university course on happiness reveals 鈥榩ositive impact鈥, even during Covid-19 By Ellie Bothwell 24 March
Sir Paul Nurse: UKRI cuts are 鈥榚xistential threat鈥 to science Nobelist and Crick director calls on UK government to 鈥榗ome to its senses鈥 over possible 鈥榯riple whammy鈥 hit to science funding By Jack Grove 24 March
Oxford career oasis gives scholars time to escape tunnel vision At the Future of Humanity Institute, early career researchers are given two years to work out which questions are really worth asking By David Matthews 24 March
Tory ex-minister warns PM against 鈥榙evastating鈥 UK research cuts Cutting existing research budgets by up to 拢2 billion would put 鈥榮cience superpower鈥 aim at risk, Greg Clark tells Boris Johnson By John Morgan 23 March
Swansea sociologist assembles recollections of a year of Covid Rich accounts of how we screamed at the television, went swimming and adapted to the 鈥榮urrealness鈥 of life during a pandemic fill a new archive By Matthew Reisz 23 March
UK universities put on ransomware alert 鈥楽ignificant increase鈥 in attacks recorded by National Cyber Security Centre since February By Chris Havergal 23 March
Keep West Bank settlement university out of Horizon, say scholars Open letter on Ariel University from academics across Europe and Israel says EU has acted against its own position on settlements By Ellie Bothwell 23 March
The European Union is legitimising Israel鈥檚 illegal settlements An open letter from academics across more than 20 European countries and Israel By Contributors 23 March