Peer review, despite its flaws, is one of the most important pillars of the scientific process. So preprint servers, which make scientific papers that have yet to be reviewed or published available online, have been slow to catch on in many fields. But then came the pandemic. “COVID changed everything,” says Jim Handman, executive director…
As Ukrainian universities resume online teaching, experts say longer-term solutions must avoid brain drain and look to post-war recovery Help for Ukrainian students and academics should also support the reconstruction of the higher education system when hostilities cease, university leaders said. Ukrainian universities are switching focus from the survival of staff and students to the…
Commitments for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people have been getting more attention since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report in 2015. The commission documented testimony from over 6,500 residential school survivors and their families – capturing a picture of the trauma and harm those schools inflicted, and the enduring legacy…
Universities are reacting to the invasion in a range of ways, and some could affect the study of Russia and Ukraine for both scholars and students. The Kremlin’s war on Ukraine has evoked such strong reaction in Canadian academia that scholars may remove the word “Russian” from at least one program title. That’s just one…
A call to stop the collective and damaging madness where we may publish more, but are falling more behind. BY ALEXANDER CLARK & BAILEY SOUSA | FEB 14 2022 Australia’s national health research funder has acted to restrict assessment of each applicant to its marque research competitions to only 10 publications from the last decade….
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