The state of the pandemic, six months in
Lockdowns are lifting but global infections are still rising. We take stock as we enter the next chapter of the outbreak.
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26 June 2020
Let’s Dive In! – Episode 1
Scientists Phil Smyth and Julie Gould introduce "Let's Dive In", their upcoming RTÉjr Radio Podcast, in video form! They take your questions and your experiments and dive in to find the answers.
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12 June 2020
The Surgisphere scandal that rocked coronavirus drug research
The latest from the hydroxychloroquine saga, as a questionable dataset threatens trust in science and forces major journals to review their processes.
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12 June 2020
Fighting the misinformation pandemic
With questionable coronavirus content flooding airwaves and online channels, what’s being done to limit its impact?
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15 May 2020
The race to expand antibody testing
The role of antibody tests in controlling the pandemic, how public-health spending could curtail an economic crisis, and the efforts of the open hardware community.
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24 April 2020
Ramping up responses: The effect of the COVID-19 outbreak on research animals
The latest on the British response, and what have low- and middle-income countries done to prepare for the pandemic.
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3 April 2020
How apartheid’s legacy can still cast a shadow over doctoral education in South Africa
PhD programmes in "the rainbow nation" mostly lead to academic careers, but reform is needed to boost collaboration and integration, higher education experts tell Julie Gould.
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17 December 2019
The PhD thesis and how to boost its impact
The thesis is a central element of how graduate students are assessed. But is it time for an overhaul? Julie Gould finds out.
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5 December 2019
Team PhD
Scientific research is not the endeavour of a single person. It requires a team of people. How can this be better reflected in graduate student training, asks Julie Gould.
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28 November 2019
It’s time to fix the one-size-fits-all PhD
Julie Gould asks six higher education experts if it's now time to go back to the drawing board and redesign graduate programmes from scratch.
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21 November 2019