Brazilian researchers remain anonymous in a published paper on Amazon forest fire
Due to fear of losing their job, researchers from Brazil have preferred to remain anonymous in a paper on Amazon
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Science funding
‘Tenure track system: Incentivising performance better than making insecurity as a model’
MHRD has called for a meeting of all seven IISER directors to discuss the merits of tenure track system and
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200 scientists sign an appeal to ‘vote against inequality, intimidation, discrimination’
For the first time, a large number (199) of scientists, both senior and young, have signed an appeal to vote
Read MoreIIT Delhi to hire 100 foreign teachers
IIT Delhi has already hired on contract five foreign nationals as faculty and intends to fill the remaining 95 vacancies
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Mystery of the missing ‘excerpts of Murmu committee recommendations’
The excerpts of the Murmu committee recommendations for revision of emoluments for PhD students was tweeted by DST on February
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‘Financial reward for publishing papers is a hare-brained scheme’
A one-time financial reward of Rs.50,000 and Rs.20,000 has been recommended for papers published in international and Indian journals respectively.
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Indian Science Congress sans drama from 2020?
The Indian Science Congress Association has finally decided to bring some respectability to the Congress by deciding to do precisely
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Finally, CSIR to issue UGC-NET JRF/LS exam certificate, release fellowship
After several months of delay, the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has finally decided to issue certificates and
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Fund crunch at INSA hurts Young Scientist Medal awardees
Due to limitations in budgetary provisions from DST, the Indian National Science Academy council has decided to “dispense with” research
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