Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham 鈥 11 June 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study

Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
UK vice-chancellors are 鈥渙pposed to any academic boycott of Israeli universities鈥 (鈥淯niversities UK confirms opposition to Israel boycott鈥, 3聽June). Boycotts, they say, are 鈥渋nimical to academic...
It seems as though Stevan Harnad and Michael Eisen are confused about what Elsevier鈥檚 new open access policy actually does (鈥淓lsevier鈥檚 OA edict exposes friction between green and gold advocates鈥,...
Discussions on grade point average degree classifications disregard the presence of a rather large elephant in the room (鈥淲hen your degree is just a number鈥, News, 4 June). The empirical evidence...
Research Councils UK should pay attention to the difficulties faced by doctoral students such as Patty Ramirez who have families (鈥淛uggling childcare and a PhD made me quit academia for good鈥,...
Inadvertently or otherwise, Laurie Taylor鈥檚 use of a theatrical analogy to describe the relationship between academics and administrators proffers an interesting if potentially unsettling vision of...
Trisha Greenhalgh disagrees with my opinion that pre-publication peer review is a waste of time (鈥淧eer review not yet sunk鈥, Letters, 4聽June). Her disagreement, however, is based on a small technical...
In Noel-Ann Bradshaw鈥檚 review of Cakes, Custard and Category Theory (Books, 4 June), there is a comment about how a sugar-free, wheat-free plum cake looks like and behaves similarly to a cake but 鈥渋s...

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