9+ hour, 34+ min ago   (421+ words) AS academics who are proud to describe ourselves as both educators and anti-racist activists, we were profoundly saddened by the hostility Jason Arday faced and by his death. While we did not know him personally, we knew of his reputation…...

21+ hour, 18+ min ago   (191+ words) In August, Cambridge’s youngest, widely celebrated black professor apparently committed suicide shortly after resigning amid plagiarism allegations — three days after his eagerly awaited book had dropped. Plenty of blame has been assigned. At Right Times, David Keighley looks at the…...

17+ hour, 31+ min ago   (431+ words) Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya has been relieved and will not teach courses at the university during the current academic year, the school said, following criticism of her social media posts about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1180+ words) UK's University of Cambridge is considering establishing a professorship in Lithuanian studies. The permanent academic post would focus on research into Lithuania's history, culture and contemporary developments, with its initiators hoping it would help strengthen knowledge and understanding of Lithuania…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (582+ words) These journalists have shown what they are. They are not people concerned with telling the news. They are people spreading a one-sided agenda, and this is the week they proved it. In the seven days after each story broke, the…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (288+ words) As Premium Times Nigeria reports, participants in a panel discussion addressed the so-called burden of representation. This is a situation in which the success or mistakes of an individual scholar are perceived not only as their personal outcome, but also…...

4+ day, 48+ min ago   (1533+ words) Premium Times Nigeria Occasionally, what a person achieves eclipses who they are. They may be allowed into an institution because of scholarship, research, intellectual contribution, or intellectual promise. But that credential can come to matter more than they do. Their…...

4+ day, 26+ min ago   (183+ words) A week ago I wrote a critique of a really misguided (and unsigned) editorial in Nature, blaming the death of Jason Arday on his hounding by a racist press as well as “systemic racism” in academia. You can see that…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (886+ words) roarnews.co.uk Hi, what are you looking for? Speaking to The Times in an article published on July 31st, Jason Arday revealed that the intense public scrutiny surrounding his academic achievements was “soul-destroying”, adding, “I don’t think people realise that…...