What are you reading? – 1 August 2019
Our fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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BoJo silver lining
Brexit will be a disaster for HE, but do the new prime minister’s past utterances offer clues on what else universities might expect?
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Science Policy under Thatcher, by Jon Agar
Richard Joyner remembers a difficult era for British science
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Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes: 50 Years of Earth-Shaking Events, by Lynn R. Sykes
Luca Dal Zilio welcomes a compelling insider’s account of our increasing understanding of the science of earthquakes
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Claire Dwyer, 1964-2019
Tributes paid to a scholar with ‘empathy’ for understanding people of different faiths
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War and Chance: Assessing Uncertainty in International Politics, by Jeffrey A. Friedman
A.W. Purdue is unconvinced by an attempt to put military planning on a more scientific footing
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Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany, by Patrick Bergemann
Zoë Waxman considers an analysis of the age-old tendency to report people next door to the authorities
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China and Japan: Facing History, by Ezra F. Vogel
Book of the week: Kerry Brown applauds a nonagenarian’s analysis of ‘one of the world’s key relationships’
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Police raids tied to Swansea University ‘wellness village’ probe
New twist in case which triggered departure of vice-chancellor and management dean
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Julie Bishop to be next Australian National University chancellor
Former deputy Liberal leader to assume the reins from Gareth Evans
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The challenges of studying the ephemeral
Matthew Reisz considers the tools we need to explore the wilder shores of performance art
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Call for global overhaul of research evaluation gaining traction
‘Hong Kong Principles’ aim to tackle ‘perverse incentives’ in metrics-based policies and university promotion criteria
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What we value about research needs to change
Transparency, openness and integrity should be the measures by which we judge research, not volume and citations, argues Mai Har Sham
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Australia aims to join forces with UK in bid for EU research cash
Countries can boost each other’s prospects with a united appeal to colossal research funding scheme, say sector leaders
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The week in higher education – 1 August 2019
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media