Nature’s senior biology reporter Ewen Callaway reflects on today’s prize for optogenetics — which scientists have anticipated for years.

To mark The Nobel Prize week here are some interesting background facts and questions. For more information see: 1) Nobel committees to tackle gender skew by Elizabeth Gibney at https://lnkd.in/e46NaC...

There’s something to the notion that Nobel winners create less thereafter, says scientist Paul Nurse

Last update: 25 February 2026 This report investigates the world's second largest charity the Wellcome Trust by considering: Who is the Wellcome Trust? How big is the Wellcome investment portfolio? Ho...

Three years after being told he has a terminal illness, rugby legend Doddie Weir refuses to give it an inch.

"“The years since my appointment have also been marked by an unrelenting level of public scrutiny and personal attack. While criticism is an inevitable part of academic life, what I have experienced h...

Universities must stop protecting bullies by Morteza Mahmoudi, founder of Academic Parity Movement. See https://lnkd.in/duvDEYCh

We saw Jason Arday in the news every day for the past two weeks, linked to a misconduct case that should have been handled out of the public eye. I don't remember any academic getting such sustained m...

From accusations of plagiarism to queries over his charity work, we list all the allegations against the academic

Ten commitments for a bold biotechnology industry by Dr. Jeremy M. Levin. My favorite three commitments are: We will back long-term science with long-term capital (5); We will build companies to outla...

Last update: 20 June 2026 There are more than 168,000 charities in the UK. These charities are monitored by the Charity Commission and range from universities to the British Arts Council to internatio...

Last update: 18 June 2026 There are more than 168,000 charities in the UK. These charities are monitored by the Charity Commission and range from universities to the British Arts Council to internatio...

Critics say offshore investing by high-minded foundations shores up a nefarious system

Do you remember how a row over scientific fraud at the highest level of British academia led to calls for one of the country’s leading geneticists and highest-paid university chiefs to leave his posts...

Do you remember how a row over scientific fraud at the highest level of British academia led to calls for one of the country’s leading geneticists and highest-paid university chiefs to leave his posts...

Nature has retracted a paper after an investigation at a U.K. institution found the first author — then a doctoral student — manipulated data.  The paper, which looked at the sensitivity of lu…

Nature has retracted a paper after an investigation at a U.K. institution found the first author — then a doctoral student — manipulated data.  The paper, which looked at the sensitivity of lu…

Nature has retracted a paper after an investigation at a U.K. institution found the first author — then a doctoral student — manipulated data.  The paper, which looked at the sensitivity of lu…

Wellcome Trust's Track Record of ReImagining Research Culture. The fact that Wellcome applied sanctions in only 7 (18%) of 39 cases of bullying/harassment relating to organizations it had funded from ...

Last update: 25 February 2026 This report investigates the world's second largest charity the Wellcome Trust by considering: Who is the Wellcome Trust? How big is the Wellcome investment portfolio? Ho...

The 21 Group has been receiving complaints about bullying from staff in UK Universities for over a year. One subject stands out as the worst for bullying and harassment. It is cancer research. We are ...

Geneticist J Craig Venter, 79, retired on 29 April 2026. Some articles of interest: 1) Geneticist J. Craig Venter: ‘I consider retirement tantamount to death’ (2023) by Heidi Ledford https://lnkd.in/...

Ten lessons from a decade of scientific translation at the Crick by Stephen Mayhew, Dave Allen & David Roblin at https://lnkd.in/g3J7zegh. See https://lnkd.in/dEnbCgsu to learn more about The Francis ...

Last updated: 30 January 2025 You hear more about venture capital in the world of finance and investment professionals, but the notion of venture philanthropy has been around for quite some time, too—...

To support women in science, we must reckon with a culture of unconscious bias

To support women in science, we must reckon with a culture of unconscious bias

To support women in science, we must reckon with a culture of unconscious bias

ERC President Professor Maria Leptin gave a speech at the Coimbra Group’s 40th anniversary at Bozar, Brussels

On International Women’s Day we sadly need to recognise that some women leaders do not exercise their power to protect a woman whistleblower. Read about how powerful women such as Kate Bingham, Sam Ba...

Your hub for understanding, exposing, and addressing academic abuse. Access data dashboards, read survivor stories, and join the fight for change in higher education.

Last updated: 19 September 2024 This review addresses: what is academic bullying? How prevalent bullying is in STEM? Who is most often targeted by bullies in science? Why aren't bully supervisors held...

Updated: 16 November 2025 The Academic Parity Movement aims to uproot academic bullying, discrimination and violence by empowering students, postdocs, and early career academics (including junior facu...

Last updated: 18 July 2024 Shitty Professor: anyone who enables or has had allegations of bullying, harassment, fraud communicated about them in the media as they often write victims chapters as this ...

Last updated: 22 March 2024 This investigative article posits that academia has a five tier caste system with division into hereditary classes based on powers to propagate endemic levels of abuse that...

Highlights from Epstein Library Deep Dive: 1) Boris Nikolic – 14,644 hits; Bill Gates – 2,577 hits; and Gates Foundation – 673 hits in U.S. DoJ's Epstein Library released in January 2026. 2) Redacte...

Dear Kate Bingham, Tetsuyuki Maruyama and Laurence Barker, has Dementia Discovery Fund (The DDF) realized it’s vision to demonstrate compelling disease-modifying clinical efficacy and safety data for ...