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  What I learned teaching in China during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Globalized higher education requires fresh cross-cultural approaches.
  

  • Teresa G. Valencak

  Comment 13 Jul 2021
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  Chinese joint-venture universities try for the best of both worlds

  While movement of students between domestic and foreign universities slows, China’s joint-venture model is gaining traction.
  

  • Cong Cao

  Comment 27 May 2021
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  How altmetrics could help level the playing field for women in STEM

  Traditional measures of success favour male researchers. Altmetrics could offer an alternative to help democratize academic evaluation.
  

  • Bjarne Bartlett et al.

  Comment 25 Mar 2021
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  Inclusion in the time of COVID: 14 ways to seize the moment for change

  Flux in the system is a chance to create new and better opportunities in academic STEMM careers for marginalized groups.
  

  • Carla Cebula et. al*

  Comment 9 Feb 2021
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  The COVID-safe university is an opportunity to end the default ableism of academia

  The restructuring of academia to make spaces and practices COVID-safe presents an opportunity to expand inclusivity, say Stuart Read, Anne Parfitt, and Tanvir Bush.
  

  • Stuart Read, Anne Parfitt, Tanvir Bush

  Comment 19 Jan 2021
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  COVID-19: Where is the data?

  Levels of open data remain stubbornly low, despite efforts to make research publishing more transparent, say Julien Larregue et al.
  

  • Julien Larregue et al.

  Comment 22 Dec 2020
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  Why universities must seize the chance to help "reset" society

  Higher education institutions are the cradle of innovation and entrepreneurship. Their expertise is needed more than ever.
  

  • Mark Dodgson and David Gann

  Comment 16 Dec 2020
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  How to turn a Eureka moment into a research project

  From ‘napkin idea’ to published paper.
  

  • Bo Xia

  Comment 17 Nov 2020
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  Researchers need support from universities to share their work beyond academia

  Institutions need to step up support for early career researchers who are looking to share their findings more widely.

  • Margaret Merga & Shannon Mason

  Comment 9 Nov 2020
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  Research in China is complicated by the Communist Party’s influence, says researcher who worked there

  A scholar who moved to the U.S. from China as a child went back to China to conduct research as an adult. She found vast differences in approach.
  

  • Comment by Wenrui Chen

  Comment 11 Feb 2020
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  iPosters and Betterposter: How to create a conference poster that people want to read

  Download free templates, or make the switch to digital-only.
  

  • Marc J. Kuchner

  Comment 6 Feb 2020
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  Scientists must stand up for internationalism

  Nationalistic trends across the world threaten the cross-border cooperation that underlies scientific progress.
  

  • Michael Riordan

  Comment 31 Jan 2020
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  Don't let big names and impressive stories influence your peer review

  How to avoid being star-struck.
  

  • Jeff C. Clements

  Comment 23 Jan 2020
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  What kind of scientist are you?

  Identifying your own archetype with this simple tool can help your work.
  

  • Carsten Lund Pedersen & Thomas Ritter

  Comment 13 Nov 2019
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  New universities pioneer different approaches to excellence in teaching, governance

  • Philip G. Altbach

  Comment 24 Oct 2019
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  What’s lost when research is driven primarily by funding

  Productivity-oriented “science on demand” leads to caution and conformity.
  

  • Stephen Turner & Daryl Chubin

  Comment 16 Oct 2019
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  Highlight negative results to improve science

  Publishers, reviewers and other members of the scientific community must fight science’s preference for positive results — for the benefit of all, says Devang Mehta.
  

  • Devang Mehta

  Comment 14 Oct 2019
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  "There is a problem": Australia's top scientist Alan Finkel pushes to eradicate bad science

  A new publishing standard should be introduced to weed out unscrupulous research journals.

  • Alan Finkel

  Comment 19 Sep 2019
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  Companies persist with biomedical papers

  Corporate research in the life sciences endures, despite diminishing in other fields of science.

  • Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Wesley Cohen,Andrea Patacconi

  Dataviz 28 May 2019
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  Novel findings rare from international collaborations

  Global teams shy away from risky research.
  

  • Caroline S. Wagner, Travis Whetsell & Satyam Mukherjee

  Comment 7 Mar 2019