Prize thoughts
Matin Durrani calls for the Nobel archives to be opened each year to ensure the Nobel prizes are fairly awarded
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Gender gap in science not due to exam results, says study
Researchers claim that their work disproves the “variability hypothesis”
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Thousands of physicists sign letter condemning ‘disgraceful’ Alessandro Strumia gender talk
Over 3000 physicists denounce an invited talk given at last month's inaugural CERN workshop on high-energy theory and gender
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Isolated female students more likely to drop out of PhD programmes
Study finds that lone women in a PhD cohort were up to 16% less likely to graduate than their male counterparts
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Publishers look to improve diversity in peer review
Report by IOP Publishing finds that men are disproportionately invited to peer review research papers in its journals compared with women
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US societies join forces in $10m drive to tackle diversity
New programme aims to boost the number of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in science
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Call made for Germany’s Helmholtz Association to boost diversity
An evaluation of the association’s 18 research centres has found that only 19% of full professorships are held by women
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Recognizing mental health in the research environment
A workshop held in London explored issues facing academic researchers with mental-health challenges
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Gender gap in physics among highest in science
Study predicts it could be more than two centuries until there are equal numbers of senior male and female researchers in physics
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Ethnic diversity boosts scientific impact
Bringing together people from different cultures could have more of a payoff than just an ethical one
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