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The footage of zebrafish's 'inner ear' development by Dr. Mariana Muzzopappa of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona; and Jim Swoger of the Center for…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- April 29, 2015
The European Research Council has announced that it will begin monitoring the economic and social outcomes of the research projects that it has commissioned.
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 29, 2016
It’s hard to be a happy academic at times like these. How can one focus on much other than the chaos around the world? Maybe we could be excused from expectations (often…
- Dr. Kylie Ball
- April 22, 2020
Academic freedom has become a hot topic of discussion among Russian scientists as a recent amendment in law by the Russian government states that research manuscripts…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 26, 2015
Wouldn’t it be interesting to take a peek into how academic mothers managed their work while also taking care of their kids during the pandemic? We spoke to three…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 10, 2021
Predatory author services are the newest avatar of predatory publishers, but with the same malicious intent: to deceive new, inexperienced researchers. With the backing…
- Irfan Syed
- June 24, 2020
Over the past few years, mental health in academia has begun to receive more and more attention—a welcome development since mental health concerns among researchers had…
- Mriganka Awati
- January 30, 2020
Elsevier has removed one of the world's most highly cited researchers from its editorial board after investigations revealed he was engaging in editorial malpractices
- Irfan Syed
- February 12, 2020
Is it possible that the socio-cultural factors of a country can influence the publication practices of the researchers? This article delves deep into the factors that…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 17, 2017
A court in south China’s Shenzhen city found He Jiankui and two others his research team guilty of illegally gene-editing human embryos. All the three researchers…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 31, 2019