The tightening of the US science budgets could improve both teaching and research, argues Diane Auer Jones — by forcing academics and their institutions to play to their strengths.
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Jones, D. Financial pain should focus universities. Nature 465, 32–33 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465032a
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