Can social media help you win a promotion?

Low wages and system reforms blamed as gap opens up between number of older scientists and new entrants

27 October

Professors who moonlight as puzzle-setters for major newspapers discuss importance of ‘letting the mind wander’ after busy day in the lab

26 October

Measuring researchers’ output mass against their body mass will incentivise even harder running on the academic treadmill, says Dariusz Jemielniak

17 October

Teaching missions would be easier to fulfil if academics did not have to seek so many permissions to do their jobs, says Akhil Bhardwaj

15 October

A new report suggests standards by which departments may consider social media and other public communications in promotion decisions