Archive for August 2024

Fabricating data, throwing academic shade at other scientists, publishing a mountain of papers that receive a towering heap of citations: cynics might describe these as steps necessary to achieve academic success. They are also goals for players of ‘Publish or Perish’ — a new card game that might hit close to home for researchers trying to navigate the often-labyrinthine and cut-throat institution of academia. The name refers to the common description of academia as a system that rewards researchers who publish their findings in prestigious scholarly journals and punishes those who don’t.

The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has published work into the effect that one person (or a small group of people) making all the decisions in a charity can have.

A father’s alcohol consumption has long been overshadowed by the focus on what a mother drinks. But that could be about to change following new research.

A new review article outlines the genetic, neurobiological, and environmental foundations for schizophrenia.

Hong Kong’s social workers’ registration body has begun reviewing social workers’ records following the introduction of a new rule that bars anyone convicted of endangering national security from the sector…. Social work veterans HKFP spoke to said the social workers who opposed the amendment were afraid of speaking up for fear of affecting their jobs.