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This week’s highlights. The Week By Lawrence Biemiller What you need to know about the past seven days. Silence Breakers: Concerned Student 1950 By Katherine Mangan They spoke out about racism. Troublemaker: Laura Kipnis By Evan Goldstein She pushed back on a culture of victimization. Coalition…

The National Institutes of Health turns toward the “invisible glue” of research universities to help with a glut of postdocs.

For some scholars, the news of psychologists’ abetting torture by the U.S. government sounded a wake-up call.

It’s hard to impress tenure committees when you’re one author among thousands.

This week’s highlights. The Week By Lawrence Biemiller What you need to know about the past seven days. The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors By Audrey Williams June The hands-on attention that minority faculty members willingly provide to a diversifying population of students is an unheralded…

A conversation with the geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, author of the memoir Lab Girl, on women, research, and life in the lab.

The techniques have quietly revolutionized what scholars can recover from damaged sources. But will humanists embrace high-tech research?

This week’s highlights. Administration October 11, 2015 The Week By Lee Gardner What you need to know about the past seven days. Athletics October 11, 2015 Missed Classes, a Changed Grade, and One Disillusioned Adviser By Brad Wolverton Two years ago, Will Collier landed his dream job, overseeing…

A new paper raises the question of how much the fear of being misinterpreted by skeptics is constraining researchers.

Too many biomedical studies can’t be reproduced. But to fix that, will scientists have to change their whole culture?