All Academia articles – Page 21
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NewsArkansas chemistry professor sentenced for synthesising methamphetamine
One chemistry professor received four month prison sentence for producing the drug in a university lab, while another was acquitted
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OpinionLGBTQ+ diversity in science and universities
Many queer scientists still feel they need to hide their full identity at work
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ResearchCalls for clarity from EU universities over UK’s association to Horizon Europe
Bodies representing over 1000 universities want guarantee of UK involvement in European research programme
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NewsKarolinska Institute pursues name changes to lose racist links
Home of medicine Nobel prize to rename building and two streets named after racist scientists
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NewsUS universities to share sexual harassment findings
By sharing information between them, Association of American Universities’ 66 research institutions want to stop abusers from passing unnoticed between universities
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NewsRosalind Franklin Institute opens with goal of connecting life and physical sciences
New £43 million building at Harwell campus will be hub for work on the fundamental mechanisms going on in biology
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NewsUS programme targeting researchers with China links crumbling under intense scrutiny
Academics are demanding that the Justice Department end the ‘China Initiative’ as cases collapse amid accusations of racial profiling
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NewsQuotas for women or based on ethnicity ruled out for the Nobel prizes
Head of the body that awards the Nobel calls the small number of females Nobel laureates ‘sad’, but says quotas are the wrong approach
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ArticleAstraZeneca explores new frontiers through academic collaborations
The important of partnerships between industry and academia to drive innovation
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NewsLongest-serving National Institutes of Health chief, Francis Collins, to step down
Head of $41 billion US biomedical research agency will depart at the end of the year
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NewsThe 2021 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Benjamin List and David MacMillan win the chemistry prize for a new way to assemble molecules
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NewsHow prizes contribute to the ‘extraordinary growth’ of a scientific field
Prize-winning topics produce more papers and retain more scientists than non-prizewinning areas
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NewsResearchGate pulls 200,000 files from its site, amid publisher pressure
Elsevier and ACS demanded removal of number of research articles for infringing copyright
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OpinionDepositing hope for the future
The rise of ChemRxiv might mean that chemists can tackle thornier cultural problems
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FeatureFour years of chemistry preprints
Nina Notman takes stock of how preprint severs have settled into the chemistry community
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NewsMerkel era ends leaving German science with a bright future
Outgoing German chancellor’s background in chemistry and physics gave her unique insight into the importance of stable funding
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NewsIvermectin debacle exposes flaws in meta-analysis methodology
Health researchers warn that taking studies at face value is a luxury that they can no longer afford
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CareersHow to improve research culture
Five ways to make chemistry departments better places to work
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FeatureWhat’s wrong with research culture?
A knotty mess of problems affects people doing academic research in the UK. Rachel Brazil tries to untie the tangle
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OpinionAct now to support early-career researchers
The Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted long-existing issues that leaders need to take a stance on