Read article: Female academics migrate shorter distances and to fewer countries than men, finds study
Analysis suggests that the gender gap among mobile scholars is narrowing
Read article: Progress could be slowing down in science and technology, finds study
Researchers discover a decline in the ‘disruptiveness’ of papers and patents in recent years
Read article: UK must embrace overseas talent to become a ‘science superpower’, says report
House of Lords inquiry finds that the UK government is not doing enough to solve the science skills shortage
Read article: Science must do more to include people with disabilities, says study
Researchers call for more proactive inclusion efforts within science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine
Read article: COVID-19 lockdowns boosted astronomy publications but worsened the gender gap, finds study
The proportion of astronomy papers published by women has declined since the pandemic began
Read article: Why it pays to join a big research group if you want to be more scientifically productive
Greater numbers of PhD students and postdocs at top universities could be why researchers at those institutions publish more papers than their peers at less prestigious centres
Read article: Citing like it’s 1995: why women physicists find their papers referenced less
Analysis shows that general physics journals have the largest citation gap between men and women in physics
Read article: Machine learning can accurately predict a scientist’s gender based on citation data alone
Network analysis finds that women use citations in a different way to men
Read article: Open-source tool allows researchers to calculate their lab’s carbon footprint
Study finds heating, travel and commuting are the biggest contributors to lab emissions
Read article: Academics worked longer hours during the COVID-19 pandemic, finds study
International team of researchers find that a longer work week has become part of “new normal” in academia
