Cambridge: Brexit 鈥榗liff edge鈥 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 鈥榖ecoming invisible鈥 to junior scholars
Many early career researchers have 鈥榥ot gone to the library for years鈥, according to report
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Can joint PhDs get more Brits studying abroad?
Joint PhD programmes that split doctoral studies between different universities may help to improve low outward mobility
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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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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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Universities must prepare ECRs for life outside academia
Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow
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Stanley Mandelstam, 1928-2016
An academic described as a 鈥榞iant in theoretical physics鈥 has died
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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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Research funding structures should be tailored to the needs of those doing the science
Early career researchers could benefit most from changes to funding structures, says Sven Sewitz, but he is concerned that there simply isn鈥檛 the will to make it happen
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Oxford helping with childcare
Elena Tobolkina draws attention to the childcare issues facing early career academics in many UK cities (鈥淲hich should I choose: my postdoc or my child?鈥, Opinion, 9 June). It is incorrect to assert...
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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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Academics worry the Establishment, and it doesn鈥檛 make us unpatriotic
Sir Keith Burnett asks if criticising your country means academics are unpatriotic
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How I stripped away postdoc depression
Simon Francis found himself with a PhD in one hand, a toilet brush in the other - and no desire for academic life A year ago, the sense of achievement that my doctorate had once given me had reached...
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From lab gigs to headliners
It鈥檚 a long way to the top if you want to make it as a PI, but there are many positives on the path to that big break
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Adviser helps postdocs get on the right track
Anne Forde recently took up a post at Cambridge University as a careers adviser dedicated to supporting postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences, writes Olga Wojtas. Cambridge has about 500...