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Opinion

Publish and Perish

Our metrics for measuring faculty productivity are fueling a crisis in scientific integrity.

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Vanderbilt Places Divinity School Into Receivership

Vanderbilt University has placed its divinity school into receivership, a move that officials told The Nashville Banner is intended to...
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Opinion

AI Slop Coming to a Library Near You

Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles.

Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, during a tour of the Broad Institute on Dec. 5, 2025.

NIH Plans $174M for Research Replicability, Reproducibility

The National Institutes of Health’s five-year R3PEATS program comes alongside a new tool that seeks to help researchers identify connected scientific publications.

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Opinion

The Web of Legislative Control: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S.

Substituting political for professional judgment about what constitutes a sound pedagogical approach continues to illustrate anti-intellectualism and the infantilization of higher education.

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UT Austin Cuts Women’s and Gender Studies Courses From Core Curriculum

The University of Texas at Austin will no longer count women’s, gender and sexuality courses toward core curriculum requirements, the...
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Higher Ed Groups Bash ED Proposal to Allow More Grant Terminations

The Education Department received more than 5,500 public comments on rule changes that would allow the secretary to, among many other things, ax awards simply “for convenience.”

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Foreign Interference Fears Over Cyberattacks on Academic Blogs

‘Distinctive’ targeting of an independently run blog in the U.K. suggests ‘state actors’ want to shut down debate on controversial research topics, says professor.