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Fair Game?
PETA goes after a Yale postdoc for her research on birds, and some academics cry foul.
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The Shrinking Humanities Job Market
New analysis finds the number of doctorates awarded keeps rising, even as number of job openings drops.
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The Missing Black Professors
Study of top public universities finds limited faculty diversity, yet signs of progress -- except for African-Americans in STEM.
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Opinion
Calling Attention to a Postdoc's Struggles and Suicide
Author of a scientific paper fought for years to find a journal to accept his work, which has an acknowledgments section that includes a tribute to a colleague.
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Long-Term Contracts for 1,500 Adjuncts
CUNY’s faculty union is starting to see returns on a major push of six-year contract battle: three-year appointments for long-serving adjuncts.
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Leap of Faith
Deciding to unionize alongside part-timers could have backfired on Notre Dame de Namur’s tenured and tenure-track faculty members. Here’s how it didn’t.
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Go Big or Go Home
Decision by the American Society for Microbiology to scale back number of small conferences highlights pressures on the economics of scholarly gatherings.
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Opinion
Helping Postdocs With Children
First-ever national survey of postdocs who are parents reveals a lack of access to paid parental leave, pressures to return to work early and extra stressors for parents of color.
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