Paul Basken
Reporter (former)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Paul Basken was a government policy and science reporter with The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he won an annual National Press Club award for exclusives.
He founded the State Department bureau at Bloomberg News, was a White House and international correspondent with United Press International, and served on the editorial advisory board of ASEE’s Prism Magazine.
Stories by this Author
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NewsU.S. Discovery of Iranian Cyberattack Doesn’t Seem to Alarm Universities
Foreign-policy experts suggest a computer-hacking indictment has more to do with international politics than a dire threat to American research institutions. -
News
Twitter for Scientists: an Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come?
A new federally funded project called Polyplexus aims to become a repository for “micropubs” — 300-character summaries of research findings. For now, it’s open to academic scientists only. -
From the Archives
Quiet White House Science Office Stirs Fears but Also Raises Some Hopes
The leaderless office is the main coordinating body for officials throughout the government to confer on a range of scientific matters affecting their agencies. -
News
Academic Conferences May Save Lives — by Keeping Big-Name Doctors Busy
That’s the counterintuitive conclusion of a study by scientists at Harvard. The report’s lead author admits that it’s hard to know what to make of the findings. -
News
Can Peer Review Be Saved?
The problem facing universities in 2018 isn’t so much that peer review has inevitably evolved, but that scientists collectively have failed to respond with a better replacement. -
News
Tamiflu and the Limits of Peer Review
The $20-billion controversy surrounding the influenza vaccine illustrates the problem of relying too heavily on published articles as a measure of scientific reliability. -
News
How to Protect Your College’s Research From Undue Corporate Influence
Public scandals and private worries have prompted efforts to rethink the management of university-industry ties. -
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NSF to Require Reporting of Researchers Who Harass
The agency seeks to ensure firsthand that any research it funds, including at remote outposts, is carried out free of harassment. -
Faculty Productivity
UT-Austin Professors Join Campaign Against Faculty-Productivity Company
The Faculty Council passed a resolution urging the University of Texas’ flagship to make no use of the company, Academic Analytics, especially for promotion, tenure, and related decisions. -
Technology
2 New Threats Highlight Human-Factor Gaps in Cybersecurity Research
To address vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre, computer scientists must consider the work of social scientists. But, argues one expert, they tend to give it short shrift.
