Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Russian Academics Aim to Punish Colleagues Who Backed Ukraine Invasion
Some academic researchers in Russia are quietly working to prevent colleagues who have supported their country’s invasion of Ukraine from...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 24
- 1 min
Royal Society report says there’s no silver bullet to fix ‘scientific misinformation’
There’s no quick and easy way to fix the problem of ’scientific misinformation’, argues a new report released by the Royal Society. As...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 7, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers sound alarm on ‘predatory’ rankings
Hey, researchers and universities, want to be included in a new ranking scheme? No problem, just pony up some cash. The full article was...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 2, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers spent an estimated 130 million hours peer-reviewing papers in 2020
In 2020, researchers globally spent an estimated 130 million hours – equivalent to 15,000 years – peer-reviewing manuscripts for...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
Cassyni aims to make online seminars more findable and citable
A new online tool, Cassyni, aims to help academics run and keep track of research seminars worldwide. Its creators say that it will also...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 7, 2021
- 1 min
How can institutions and funders help to police questionable research practices?
A pilot study at universities and private and public funding agencies in Europe testing a new toolbox of topics aimed at helping...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 8, 2021
- 1 min
Why do higher educational institutions keep getting hacked?
Higher educational institutions across the UK and Europe have been the target of an increasing number of cyber attacks in recent months....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
UK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022
The UK government will launch a new grant funding agency in 2022 aimed specifically at funding high-risk science and breakthroughs. The...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 28, 2021
- 1 min
Revoke PhDs for misconduct
However nerve-wracking it may be, most PhD students pass their final viva exam, in which examiners dissect and challenge their work. Once...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 16, 2020
- 1 min
Surviving Weed-Out Classes in Science May Be a State of Mind
Social ties to classmates and how students feel could be more important than innate ability when it comes to enduring early STEM weed-out...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 9, 2020
- 1 min
Graduate departments move away from GREs
Physics and Astronomy graduate schools are rapidly moving away from the GRE entrance exams amid concerns over their cost, accessibility...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 26, 2020
- 1 min
Questionable research practices are hurting junior researchers
A third of early-career researchers have had their work harmed by the questionable research practices of colleagues based at their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 18, 2019
- 1 min
Research returnees boost China’s scientific impact
Europe and US-based Chinese researchers have been flooding back to China in recent years — and having a significant impact in the...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 15, 2019
- 1 min
Female authors listed on just 30% of recent UK academic research
Women are listed as authors of just 30% of academic research from British universities, according to a major new ranking of higher...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 16, 2017
- 1 min
Indian Funding Agency Releases List of Journals Used to Evaluate Researchers
India’s University Grants Commission (UGC) last month (January 11) published a list of more than 38,000 journals that it will use to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 12, 2016
- 1 min
Romanian law shortens jail time for prisoners who write books
Romanian officials are taking a stand against a long-standing oddity in the law that entitles prisoners to 30 days off their jail...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 16, 2015
- 1 min
Academics draft letter complaining of ‘stereotypes’ in AAAS publications
Concerned researchers have drafted a letter to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to address what they see as...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 22, 2015
- 1 min
University of Oxford named United Kingdom's global health front-runner
According to a new ranking system that was launched in the UK Houses of Parliament on 21st January 2015, only a handful of UK...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 16, 2015
- 1 min
Syllabus: A jail to creativity
Tutors are often told in sessions to "stick to the syllabus", but is this a hindrance to creativity? Does it limit the ability of kids to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 18, 2014
- 1 min
The art of storytelling in a tutoring session
Poet Philip Larkin once said, "A story consists of a beginning, a muddle, and an end.” But what exactly did he mean by this? What is the...
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