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...The Institute of Physics has called on UK tabloids to stop using the term "boffin" to describe scientists....

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...The South African National Space Agency has appointed Humbulani Mudau, an expert in remote sensing with a strong policy background, as its new chief... ...Humbulani Mudau joins Sansa after heading up space technology at national science department....

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...Africa at D-Cyphr, a proteomics and metabolomics research facility in Cape Town.... ...On 29 March, Uppsala-based company Olink announced that its targeted protein biomarker discovery technologies would be used for the first time in...

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...In Lyon, both Lumière Lyon 2 University and Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University were closed.... ...Campuses in Paris, Lille, Bordeaux, Rennes, Boulogne, Nice and several other towns and cities were shut down by blockades or occupations.... ...Local news website Lyon Capitale reported that students had arrived at dawn to force the closure of Lyon 2, while protestors at Lyon 3 managed to... ...briefly hijack the institution's Twitter account....

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...Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. New branch within NZ ministry is leading research sector changes.... ...Prue Williams (pictured), the public servant in charge of implementing the country's Te Ara Paerangi Future Pathways reforms, says the changes will...

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...Research-intensive universities say current approach in Australia is fragmented and incoherent.... ...It wants a "strategy that sets a dedicated framework to support research in Australia for generations to come".... ..."Australia is going in the wrong direction as it relates to commitment to R&D and productivity," it says.... ...Its proposed national strategy would put universities at the centre of research funding, would give them greater stability, would "be discipline agnostic...

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...Research England executive chair Jessica Corner discusses the future of the country's keystone funder.... ...Jessica Corner used to spend her time caring for patients on the hectic wards of an NHS hospital....

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...On 13 March, Research Professional News brought you the revelation--based on Freedom of Information requests--that since becoming chair of the Office... ...for Students in February 2021, Conservative peer James Wharton has only visited five universities....

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...Professional News has been told.... ...Hundreds of jobs could be at risk due to a major change in how the Medical Research Council provides long-term support for research groups, Research...

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...Last year, universities and research institutions across Europe threw open their doors to those who left the country, with many funders launching... ...For researchers displaced to other countries by the conflict and those remaining in Ukraine, this makes the future uncertain.... ...Frank Albrecht is the director of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Philipp Schwartz Initiative, which, since 2015, has provided funding for... ...Kateryna Dugina, a research associate in food science at the University of Nottingham, won funding in July 2022 through a British Academy scheme...