As research students, we aim to advance our disciplines through rigorous research and intense focus on our studies. At the same time we are all too often full of anxiety and uncertainty that keep us from achieving our best. Even though other students among our friends provide support, the amount of inherent competition among research […] … learn more→
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We need to talk about competition
Disconnected: Can universities surpass brand image to make their social media relevant?
Universities fail to exploit social media’s most compelling features, tending to broadcast their brands instead of engaging students and the public online, new research suggests. Visualise this: smiling students and successful faculty. In the background, beautiful buildings framed by blue skies. These are the ways that Canadian universities choose to represent themselves on social media. […] … learn more→
You’re so vague…
It is important when writing about research to be specific. And by writing about research I mean writing about methods in a journal article, writing methods in a thesis or journal article, writing about research design in a research bid. See what I did there? Specific, not vague. Now I’m guessing you do know that examiners […] … learn more→
Earth’s wildernesses are disappearing, and not enough of them are World Heritage-listed
Earth’s last intact wilderness areas are being rapidly destroyed. More than 5 million square km of wilderness (around 10% of the total area) have been lost in the past two decades. If this continues, the consequences for both people and nature will be catastrophic. Predominantly free of human activity, especially industrial-scale activities, large wilderness areas […] … learn more→
Colleges and Universities, bad news, and the media
Over the past two years, my university, Wright State, has been producing negative news stories with remarkable regularity. Our enrollment, which had been gradually increasing has dipped somewhat, and because we are in the midst of a largely self-created budget mess, any decline in enrollment makes the budget issues worse and the number of positions […] … learn more→
Jisc futures: the digital revolution and the future of science
Information and knowledge have always been essential drivers of social progress, and the technologies through which knowledge is acquired, stored and communicated have been determinants of the nature and scale of their impact. A technological milestone was passed at the turn of the millennium when the global volume of data and information that was stored […] … learn more→
Left bans scientist who Discovered DNA
“Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” –Beria, head of Stalin’s Secret Police Only an idiot could have thought the Left agenda of shutting down Conservative speakers on campus would stop at just those speakers. Having succeeded in making it impossible for a Conservative to show his or her (Hi Ann Coulter!) […] … learn more→
Should College students be drug tested?
A medication test is a specialized examination of a natural example, for instance pee, hair, blood, breath, sweat, as well as oral liquid/salivation — to decide the nearness or nonappearance of indicated parent drugs or their metabolites. College overseers are accused of guaranteeing a protected, steady, and sound school condition where kids can learn and […] … learn more→
As well as researching the impact of carbon emissions, we need to reduce our own
To nobody’s great surprise, a month ago, Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement. While some current and former coal miners celebrated, this act of environmental vandalism not only won’t see a return of jobs to an industry where strip-mining requires few workers but it also – paradoxically – has reignited the […] … learn more→
Peer-reviewed research: Penises cause warming
Advanced mathematics is not for the uninitiated. Even with years of training, it’s easy enough to go to a research seminar and have at best merely a basic idea of what the latest findings are about. Experts in the field usually understand completely of course, but even if what’s being said seems incomprehensible to the […] … learn more→
