Should you be working 100 hours a week? Mary Beard’s recent admission that she is a ‘mug’ who works 100 hours a week caused a Twitter storm. But how hard is it reasonable for academics to work? Who should decide? And should the mugs be obliged to keep quiet? Seven...
Investigación científica en el mundo: publicar o morir
Research publications: does piling them high sell them short? All modern academics know that it’s publish or perish, but is regular publication a gateway or a barrier to groundbreaking scholarship? Simon Baker assesses the data on the relationship between research...
Productividad e improductividad de la academia: Reflexiones de un Nobel
Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers' Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian, Friday 6 December 2013 17.37 GMT...
El trumpismo como metáfora: reflexión sobre el fin de la democracia liberal
El trumpismo como metáfora: reflexión sobre el fin de la democracia liberal La novedad actual consiste en que, de...
Trump y la ciencia
Trump’s anti-science appointees ‘drive demonisation of scholars’ With vaccine sceptics taking top White House posts,...
Universidades españolas en comparación
Razones para apostar por la Universidad La comparación con los países vecinos nos deja mal parados: España ocupa la...
Premios Nobel de 2024 y visiones de mundo
What do the 2024 Nobel prizes tell us about human society? Philip G Altbach and Tessa DeLaquil , 28 October 2024 The...