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College of Arts and Law tells scholars to spend more time on grant applications as quality-related funding dwindles

Understanding animal behaviour presents many challenges in the field. Matthew Reisz meets Rory Wilson, a biologist who has won awards for his innovative methods of tracking everything from albatrosses to sloths

Data on research output in South America paints a stark picture for the troubled nation

Ministers love talking about grand government-directed projects, but Philip Hammond must reaffirm tomorrow the UK’s support for open-ended research using quality-related funding, says Stephanie Smith

Experts question whether new National Science Project will have wide impact beyond creating ‘a few islands of research excellence’

Protesters allegedly called researchers ‘dirty Jews’ and ‘traitors’ in latest intimidation of scholars who emphasise Polish role in the Holocaust

New group of eight universities, joined by MIT and Stanford, sees lack of private investment in ‘niche’ university research as a key barrier

ARC insists allegations of political subversion are ‘baseless’

Two dozen agreements signed in whirlwind tour Down Under

Negotiations on â‚¬100 billion Horizon Europe scheme delayed by East-West tensions and could be slowed further by European elections

John Ross examines the state of cross-study and collaboration between Australia and its neighbours in the East

Universities ‘not well served’ by federal government’s approach to BRI, Universities Australia conference hears

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Diana Mitlin, professor of global urbanism at the University of Manchester, shares her tips on working with politicians and government officials

‘Why is being incredibly successful a problem?’ asks Universities Australia chair Margaret Gardner

Community attitudes questionnaire also finds that Australians want caps on international students but not domestic students

Sir Fraser Stoddart says the most rewarding element of his work has been supervising research students, who supported him personally after his wife’s death

Business and academia accuse each other of ‘more aggressive’ assertion of intellectual property rights

Brexit copyright issues may prevent researchers from consulting Spare Rib, which for two decades served as ‘the most popular voice of women’s liberation’ in the UK

Despite huge strides in the past 75 years, a recent forum suggests to Jon Turney that there’s still a way to go before biologists’ deep insights at the micro level are mirrored at the macro

The government’s new ‘national interest’ test for research proposals is another damaging symptom of short-termism, says Margaret Sheil

One thousand PhD places to be created over next five years

Research for the public good being subverted by geopolitical ‘zero-sum competition’, says former LSE professor

Academics highlight brain drain of researchers and loss of international research partners as concerns in wake of latest government ‘attack on autonomy’

Large research groups may be less flexible and more risk-averse, study suggests

Evidence suggests citations boost from working with industry

Two researchers who study rainforest resilience tell Jack Grove of their alarm at seeing the devastation wrought by wildfires

Simon Baker examines the rise of China as a research nation and the worries this provokes among some Westerners

Academic turned wrestler Dan Mathewson is just one of many educators willing to go the extra mile for scholarship and learning, says Jack Grove 

Universities ‘relieved’ at rejection of defence department demands for more control over technology they create

Fixating on how research misconduct might impact the figures could distract the scholarly world from bigger questions about the future direction and conduct of science, explains Simon Baker

Liberal arts professor Dan Mathewson uses his wrestling alter ego to explore the politics of the working-class American South

Australian researchers say a lack of guidance material forces researchers to second-guess ethics committees

Counting China’s first green billionaire among your mentees doesn’t hurt in funding applications, says UNSW professor

Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex

US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility

Seven academic chemists give their views on the field’s health

Jordanian molecular biologist Rana Dajani talks to Matthew Reisz about her multiple roles as a conspicuously successful feminist, hijab-wearing scientist in the Middle East

Seeking special status will further antagonise non-members faced with curtailed access to EU research funding, says Jan Palmowski

As Brexit reaches fever pitch, who knows what damage the 2028 research excellence framework might reveal

Report from Clarivate Analytics’ Institute for Scientific Information suggests more nuanced ways of analysing research impact

Christopher Hunt shared row with precious remains after granting of ‘passport’

Analysis of research co-authored with city region shows more than half of papers now involve links with mainland

The advent of Plan S promises to turbocharge the open access movement, but amid pushback from researchers and publishers, Rachael Pells examines whether the demand for published research truly merits the disruption

UK universities and research institutes drawing up contingency plans for chaotic departure from European Union

Evidence of strong public demand for access to papers is scant. Might a sophisticated database of lay summaries be more valuable?

Don’t fixate on funding cuts and market challenges, UK-born star scientist Michelle Simmons tells Australian peers

Portland State University’s investigation of a researcher who published hoax papers misses the point of ethical oversight, says Jeffrey Flier

Scientific advances expected after new US law requires federal statistics and documents to be published in uniform and open formats

Some research disciplines have their very own ‘Simon and Garfunkel’. Matthew Reisz talks to some of those whose close and enduring collaborations have convinced them that two voices are better than one

Institutions seek guidance over links to Chinese company but are told that it is not their role to start a ‘new Cold War’

Matthew Reisz considers the advantages – and the challenges – of long-term scholarly alliances and the role that gender can play 

Scholars offer their advice on the art of promoting research online

New book explores proliferation of ‘starchitect’-designed facilities 

Portland State University says Peter Boghossian’s attack on academic explorations of race and gender failed to get ethics approval

Oxford academic says increasing work pressures and time constraints mean practice’s future is at risk

Forcing academics on to teaching-only contracts based on flawed assessments of their research is ruining careers, an anonymous academic says 

Foreign-born academics outperform US counterparts on numerous productivity measures, analysis shows

Turing Institute and British Library collaborate on project to use artificial intelligence techniques to analyse texts

Encouraging academics to spend time with scholars from outside their own discipline will be vital to tackling today’s grand challenges, says Annette Rubery