Books interview: Frank Trentmann
Shelf life: The historian and author of Empire of Things on Karl May, Fernand Braudel, Elena Ferrante and the enduring pleasures of atlases and dictionaries
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Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action, by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri
Organising and agitating online can be a powerful mover of change, Ivor Gaber finds
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The Paradox of Evolution: The Strange Relationship between Natural Selection and Reproduction, by Stephen Rothman
Tiffany Taylor on a thought-provoking view of the forces acting to ensure survival
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What are you reading? – 21 January 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe, by Lisa Randall
Book of the week: An invisible force causes extinctions – science or sci-fi? Nature will decide, says Marcus Chown
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For my research, I work on cloud nine
Neil Reid is fulfilling a childhood dream and working in a cloud forest in Honduras, where the natural wonders and the need to defend them can push the region’s dangers out of mind
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What should we be teaching the next generation of computer scientists?
As technology changes rapidly, how can the academy respond to the challenge of educating for an unwritten future? John Gilbey went to Silicon Valley to find out
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TEF: government under fire on link to multiple fee caps
UUK and GuildHE lead critical response to Green Paper fee plans, as Jo Johnson faces ‘high stakes’ in HE bill battle
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The week in higher education – 21 January 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Laurie Taylor – 21 January 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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A mantra for the next REF cycle? Keep calm and carry on
We must improve the system we already have, not make a switch to metrics, argues James Wilsdon