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The tragic case of Jason Arday shows what scapegoating a person can look like.
New analysis of articles about Arday show the volume of coverage he faced in the final weeks of his life.
The resignation and death of the Cambridge professor is the latest chapter in a centuries-old struggle over originality and intellectual ownership – one intensified by the rise of generative AI.
There is a difference between being invited into a university and feeling wanted there.
Some teachers increasingly are shifting their approach to reading, assigning fewer books than they once did.
Social capital matters in academic career progress.
A group of researchers examine the communication barriers impacting social science professionals’ credibility and how people make sense of their expertise.
The era of fully automated research has arrived.
There’s low public awareness of how research is funded.
Surveys have found that researchers studying UAPs can face pushback from mentors and colleagues, even from people who think it’s an important line of research.
AI might have ‘PhD-level’ intelligence. But substituting it for a PhD student sacrifices a special part of the academic ecosystem.
A small portion of university research funding comes from individual donors. Most universities have policies in place to protect against wrongdoing.
Humility is a virtue that many people admire but far fewer practice. A scholar describes how a professional crisis made him look inward and rethink his concept of success.
Researchers who focus on one specialty are more likely to rise through the academic ranks, even though wicked societal problems require crosscutting work to solve.
Ubuntu philosophy is a better way to represent scholarly contributions in African academia.
Scientific misconduct can waste public funds and harm human health. But views differ about the best way to tackle it.
Sorry, Baby and After the Hunt have put graduate research – and its ethical grey areas – on the screen.
A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning.
Mariam Rahmani’s witty debut novel, Liquid, set between the US and Tehran, is a rom com for the age of precarity.
Charlie Kirk’s education beliefs have deep roots that predate the MAGA movement and trace back to the 1960s.



















