Research

A £30 million investment in research and innovation campuses from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has been unveiled.

Citations could replace peer review in sciences, study concludes

A library-focused effort aims to take monographs off the analogue shelf

David Willetts has announced £85 million in funding to provide equipment in three of the “eight great technologies” being targeted to drive growth.

The number of scientific procedures started on animals in the UK has risen sharply, increasing by 8 per cent.

Aging hippies and rare surviving examples of purple corduroy suits could be spotted at the University of Greenwich’s Breaking Convention conference last week, billed as “the 2^nd multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness”.

A British university has purchased the manuscript of a literary landmark at a price of close to a million pounds.

David Cope defends merits of ‘monetising’ in impact-focused era

Academics invited to publish papers, solicit reviews on new scholarly site

The European Commission has announced plans to invest €22 billion (£19 billion) in public-private research and innovation projects over the next seven years.

The research excellence framework risks turning British economics into “a purely quaint academic subject with no connection to the real world”, an academic paper has warned.

The £1.1 billion annual investment in science capital announced in last month’s spending round is the biggest “for decades” and must not be wasted.

Calls to restrict fields’ funds and scope of study alarm US academics

Edge Hill scholar turns a queer eye on ageing

Canadian researchers call for volte-face on global funding trend

How Jo Brewis and fellow Vida members aim to give women space to think

A paucity of suitable sites, a “stand-offish” attitude and a lack of coordinated, long-term planning are all to blame for the scarcity of large international scientific facilities on UK soil, the Lords Science and Technology committee has been told. 

The scientist who developed the first-ever prototype for an “invisibility cloak” has been given a top award by the Institute of Physics.

Glasgow Caledonian University has said it is happy that the PhD thesis of Iran’s new president elect is properly referenced and is not undertaking a formal academic investigation

The insurance group AXA has funded a €1 million (£850,000) chair at Imperial College London.

A former director of research at England’s funding council has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University.

The European Union’s next research and innovation funding programme, known as Horizon 2020, looks set to begin on schedule next year

Announcement comes as new details emerge about increased science capital budget

Students offered ‘fun, novel’ way to learn how to write paper ‘abstracts’

Funds are allocated on project quality not desire to support elite, says minister. Chris Parr reports

Pat Monaghan and Tim Birkhead call for variation to be the theme once more in university biology

University defends short-term contracts as source criticises ‘game-playing’

We are paying too high a price for 100,000 genomes more, warns Bill Amos

The capital budget for science will be increased to £1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.

Science should be able to bid against other spending areas such as road-building for capital investment, the chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has argued.

A conference being held this week is setting out to revive a neglected area of research which the Arab Spring has put back in the world’s spotlight.

Study suggests women more likely than men to turn down invitations to speak

Consultation to consider use of metrics and case studies in research assessment

The number of journals denied an impact factor for taking part in citation cartels has risen sharply this year, pushing up the total number of excluded journals.

The UK government must be among those reassuring the public that genetically modified crops are “a safe, proven and beneficial innovation”, environment secretary Owen Paterson has said.

Medical research charities want funding protected in spending review

Hefce reveals 215 assessors chosen from outside academy

Madeleine Blaess’ journal gets screen treatment

Great medical record captures public heart and state wallet

Minister wins fans for affirming value of data

Lisa Downing on why the erosion of women’s, gender and sexuality studies in UK universities is cause for concern

Fire-damaged survey ordered by Charles I yields its secrets at last

Cuts to widening participation funds anticipated to meet spending review targets

Scientific research in the UK has been harmed by the current spending freeze, a report has claimed

Website dedicated to uncovering academic misconduct goes global

Digital collection of 5 million pages aims to ‘open window’ on to India’s recent past

Psychology lecturer picks up gong for her work on sex and relationship advice

Anthropologist gets her hands dirty with Big Apple’s sanitation workers

The banning of psychoactive drugs amounts to one of the worst cases of scientific censorship in modern times, researchers have argued.

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review

Spiders star in scholar’s photographic study

Scholarly talent search winners for 2013 to bring insights to the nation

Crowdsourcing is invaluable to researchers, but why do people do it and how can their interest be maintained?

Moving medical education and research funding to the Department of Health would “pose a significant threat to the UK’s leading position” in the fields, medical schools have warned George Osborne.

Jackie Hunter has been appointed as chief executive and deputy chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Hundreds of people have signed a petition protesting about new quarterly journal Porn Studies that is due to launch in spring next year.

Without proper reporting social and psychological experiments are a “waste of money”, researchers have said.

The Wellcome Trust has announced plans to extend its open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters