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Hello Nature Index readers, As universities and research institutions continue to settle into a 'new normal', it's an opportunity to rethink outdated policies and practices to ensure they are more inclusive. This week, we hear from Justin Yerbury, a researcher with motor neurone disease whose actions drove a change in grant application policy. Also this week, how new technologies can assist in identifying gaps in COVID-19 preprints, why sensationalistic words are increasingly appearing in the scientific literature, and a look at some of most talked-about studies of 2020. |
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With the arresting headline, "The most horrific time of my career", Retraction Watch drew our attention to an ultimately uplifting story about Australian microbiologist Nicola Smith’s 2019 reckoning with a devastating error in her published research. The stress Smith felt was magnified a million times in colleagues across academia in 2020, though for very different reasons. In a special issue of Studies in Higher Education this month, "The impact of a pandemic – a global perspective", University of Melbourne academics Lyn Goedegebuure and Lynn Meek, (respective past and present editors-in-chief of the journal) have collected a series of accounts showing an initial assumption that the sector "would be able to deal with this" were "very wrong". They note "the very different action-sets taken by our tertiary institutions" across the world, ranging from "an almost singular focus on solidarity and community to an equally singular focus on the bottom line and staff retrenchments." You can read their full introduction to the issue here, or an extract in the Campus Morning Mail. |
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