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Universities must stop protecting bullies — or more people will leave science 0
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- August 17, 2026
In 2019, after quitting a faculty job in response to bullying, I co-founded the Academic Parity Movement with environmental activist Saya Ameli Hajebi. We built the organization to give researchers somewhere to turn when their own institutions did not listen to or, worse, betrayed them. Seven years and several thousand case reports later, I have
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Agentic profiles for effective AI governance – Nature 0
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- August 14, 2026
Feigenbaum, E. A. The art of artificial intelligence: themes and case studies of knowledge engineering. In Proc. 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI ’77) Vol. 2, 1014–1029 (Morgan Kaufmann, 1977). Russell, S. J. & Norvig, P. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall, 1995). Sutton, R. S. & Barto, A. Reinforcement Learning: An
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Reply to: Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption – Nature 0
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- August 14, 2026
Holst, V., Algaba, A., Tori, F., Wenmackers, S. & Ginis, V. Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10787-y (2026). Article Google Scholar Park, M., Leahey, E. & Funk, R. J. Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time. Nature 613, 138–144 (2023). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Wu,
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Why China should reassess how it rewards young scientists 0
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- August 13, 2026
China’s research sector has experienced spectacular growth over the past two decades. The increase in scientific output is due, in part, to a system that funnelled resources to researchers selected by prestigious talent-acquisition schemes. This approach has helped the nation’s scientists to publish in leading journals. Yet, a rapid expansion in the scientific workforce has
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Seven tips for a graceful lab exit 0
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- August 12, 2026
Leaving the laboratory to take up a position elsewhere is an exciting milestone for many young scientists. But sorting through years’ worth of samples and data while preparing for your next career stage — and often a move to a different city or even a different country — can be overwhelming. Here are seven tips
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When the best decision is no decision: the rise of randomization in grant funding 0
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- August 11, 2026
Randomizing parts of grant decision-making increases diversity and reduces costs, argue some researchers.Credit: Andrew Angelov/Alamy Rachel Heyard’s job was to find a signal in the noise, but the trouble was how often there wasn’t one. As a biostatistician in the data team at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in Bern, Switzerland’s main public research
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