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"The number of international students enrolling in the English higher education sector has fallen by more than a tenth this year, according to early indications that highlight a 17 per cent drop in overseas master’s recruitment." www.timeshighereducation.com/news/oversea...

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"The Max Planck Society (MPG), Germany’s top research organisation, says that the country could benefit from the new US administration’s increasingly restrictive research policies, and is stepping up efforts to recruit elite US scientists and scholars". www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

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"The Norwegian government is being pressured to take advantage of an expected exodus of researchers from the USA in the wake of President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, which have thrown the US research ecosystem and ac. freedom into chaos". www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

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"In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Thank you, "Physics Today" for covering our research on #attrition and #retention in #science! Although women continue to be #underrepresented in the physical sciences, the rate at which they leave the field is on par with that of men. pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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"Taking action. For many scientists, the big event is coming up on 7 March, at ‘Stand Up for Science’ rallies slated to take place in 32 cities around the country. The main event, in Washington DC". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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We have updated the 37th annual CHER conference webpage regarding accommodation options in Poznań: cher2025.amu.edu.pl/conference-v... Welcome to Poznań 3-5 September 2025 - 37th Consortium of Higher Education Researchers Annual Conference! #HigherEd #highereducation #research #Conferences #Poznań

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Dear #HigherEd #Research and #Policy community - you are welcome to come! 📢 37th #CHER 2025 Annual Conference 📢3-5 September 2025, Poznan 📢Abstract Submission Deadline: 7 March 2025 📢Call for Proposals cher2025.amu.edu.pl/call-for-pro... ✅Vienna 2023 ✅Luxembourg 2024 ✅Poznan 2025 RTplease!

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Unbelievable. PubMed. After 29 years, dead. PubMed is a openly-accessible free database which includes primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. Yes. It was. Not any more.

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Excellent research based on German data! Huge congratulations! The “sacred spark” theory vs. the theory of cumulative advantage. We did a study of 38 OECD countries - full support for the latter theory. In reviews, stay tuned! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Thank you #Harvard and Richard Freeman from Economics for my seminar in "Economics of Science & Engineering" series! Thank you the audience for discussions! I presented "#Attrition in #Science" from global and longitudinal perspectives. Recording here: shorturl.at/fn94I

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"The Democratic Party is stuck “between a rock and a hard place” in trying to defend higher education from the Trump administration and grow support among the working class". www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chaotic...

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Overheads in the USA down... to 15% "The agency proposed cutting the rate from between 40% and 70% to a flat 15% — a potential loss of billions of dollars for universities." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Would never think about it! But we have 2025.

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"Trump officials bar NASA climate scientist from international meeting, and the agency shuts down a team supporting the next". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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"Despite the fact that former president Barack Obama released a copy of his birth certificate in April 2011 showing that he was born in Honolulu (Hawaii), 20 percent of Americans still believe that he was born outside the United States". www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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It is AMAZING to listen to our paper on #"Attrition Science" discussed by AI #Deep Dive) - 11 minutes, a great, lively conversation, hitting the mark! Somehow incredible. I would not do it better. Fascinating how #LLMs soothingly summarize our, #human work. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/942...

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The proper link is here, apologies: doi.org/10.1007/s107...

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Higher Ed folks - we invite you to come Poznan in September! Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), we meet for the 37th time. Call for Proposals is here: cher2025.amu.edu.pl/call-for-pro...

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The proper link is here, apologies: doi.org/10.1007/s107...

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The chances to #survive in academic #science - to keep #publishing after X years The #Interactive #Dashboard for 38 countries is here. Check your #country, #discipline, #cohort of scientists and #gender. Just move arrow between continents and science systems! public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

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#Quitting science. How is it in your country, discipline and cohort? #Interactive dashboard! (N=2,1 MIL) Kwiek, M., Szymula, L. Quantifying attrition in science: a cohort-based, longitudinal study of scientists in 38 OECD countries. High Educ (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s107... #MarekPublishes

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War on science. "Announced reforms to research-grant standards that could drastically reduce federal financial support for science. The cuts form part of a larger effort to radically reduce the government’s spending and downsize its workforce". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Interesting! "Drawing on a collective action frames perspective, I analyze a large corpus of publicly available documents and statements and provide a framework for navigating how the case for collective action on assessment reform is constructed and contested." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A venture capital group backed by Cambridge university has launched a new £100mn fund to invest in start-ups in the region, bolstering the UK government’s plan for higher education institutions to drive more economic growth. #AcademicSky

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Global divide, China (right) vs. others (left)! Our research on „attrition in science” featured in 50 places 15 lang. (in 3 mos) Kwiek, M., Szymula, L. Quantifying attrition in science: a cohort-based, longitudinal study of scientists in 38 OECD countries. High Educ (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s107...

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The role of #top performers emerges as fundamental today as it was 10, 20, and 30 years ago. A surprising temporal #stability of productivity patterns is found: The 1/10 and 10/50 rules apply across the three decades #MarekPublishes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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"Half of the graduates from top economics PhD programmes in the US publish next to nothing in the years following degree completion". cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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"With its Trump-style promise to smash ‘wokeism’ on campus, Germany’s far-right AfD is widely seen as a threat. And with even the country’s mainstream parties promising little for higher education, few are relishing Sunday’s election". www.timeshighereducation.com/features/wha...

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"Although tangible improvements have been made in academic publishing and conference participation, gender imbalances in citations among leading neuroscience journals persist and are increasing with time". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Thrilled to be presenting my research on Attrition in Science (or leaving science) at Harvard next Friday! "Quantifying attrition in science: A cohort-based, longitudinal study of scientists in 38 OECD countries" A Seminar in Economics of Science & Engineering! #MarekTalks

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"With restrictive immigration policies increasingly being adopted in rival destinations, researchers from the British Council found that the UK stands to reap the rewards after the Republican’s return to the White House". www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

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Thank you "Physics Today" for featuring our research on gender disparities in attrition in science - quitting research - stopping publishing - across 38 countries! Our research was covered already in 50 places since September! Downloads - 32,000 pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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"At the federal agencies that fund the bulk of scientific research in the US, budgets are threatened, spending is on hold, jobs are being cut, funded grant proposals are to be scrutinized under new lenses, grant review panels are being moved online, delayed or canceled" pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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🎓Higher Education News🎓 University funding crisis spreads, with more cuts announced nation.cymru/news/univers.... #academicsky

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From NIH Office of Research on Women's Health webpage Sex as a Biological Variable tab "Historic document published prior to January 20, 2025" It looks like we are headed back to the good old days when women were consider to be small men for the purposes of research...

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Interesting! "Nature’s analysis found that, for the majority of institutions with high retraction rates, retractions are spread across many authors. This hints at a problem with research-integrity culture rather than a few rogue researchers." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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"Together, these legal pressures function as a form of political interference that seeks to reshape higher education by slowly chipping away at its foundational principles: inquiry free from external interference." www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

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We approach productivity in science in a longitudinal fashion: We track scientists’ careers over time, up to 40 years. We allocate scientists to decile-based productivity classes, from the bottom 10% to the top 10%. We show patterns of mobility btw the classes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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"Success rates for some UK research council grant schemes have fallen below 10 per cent, leading to warnings that universities must “stay realistic” about the likelihood of their academics winning substantial external funding". www.timeshighereducation.com/news/stay-re...

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“The sector has been stubborn to reduce this practice because it suits managers to have this kind of flexibility, where the economic risk of there being no work to do at some point in the future falls entirely on the worker". www.timeshighereducation.com/news/thousan...

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Our study on gender disparities in #"attrition in science" discussed in #"Physics #Today"! No men/women differences! Cohort 2000 of scientists tracked for 20 years. From their first to last publication. N= 400,000 38 OECD countries Thank you for the coverage! pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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"Scientists are bracing for major changes in the direction of US biomedical research as Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who has promoted vaccine misinformation and public-health conspiracies, gains control over a vast swathe of science policy." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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PhD poverty "In many countries, one of the biggest factors deterring students from pursuing doctoral degrees is the high cost of living relative to how much they get paid". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Today! IHE. We track scientists’ careers over time, up to 40 yrs. Allocate scientists to decile-based productivity classes, from bottom 10% to top 10%. Seek patterns of mobility between the classes. Radically changing productivity almost never happens! #MarekPublishes doi.org/10.1007/s107...

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Heidelberg Uni and GESIS offer a joint position as Head of team „Family Surveys“ (f/m/d) at GESIS #Mannheim and as Full professor (#W3) in “Comparative Survey Methodology and Social Data Science” (f/m/d) at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Heidelberg Uni: www.hidden-professio...

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$900 Million in Institute of Education Sciences Contracts Axed The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3QdLZ15

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"Among the world’s Top 100 universities, around a third lie within 25 kilometres of another Top 100 university". www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

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