Day: June 20, 2022

Impact has in the past two REF cycles established itself as an integral criteria of research assessment in the ...

Histidine phosphorylation in human cells; a needle or phantom in the haystack?

It has been suggested that in mammalian cells histidine residues in proteins may become as frequently phosphorylated as serine, ...

Ethics of Academia (2) with Michael Cholbi

This is the second episode in my short series on The Ethics of Academia. In this episode I chat ...

Learning accurate path integration in ring attractor models of the head direction system

Ring attractor models for angular path integration have received strong experimental support. To function as integrators, head direction circuits ...

In Cambodia, researchers document the world’s largest freshwater fish | Science

Thanks to local fishers, a team of scientists on an expedition in Cambodia to tag Mekong River fish has ...

NSF selects Kellina Craig-Henderson to lead its Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate | Beta site for NSF

Credit: National Science Foundation The U.S. National Science Foundation has selected Kellina Craig-Henderson to serve as Assistant Director of ...

Therapy dogs reduce kids’ stress levels in study

School-age children who spent time with a therapy dog twice a week subsequently had lower levels of salivary cortisol ...

John Rawls and Fair Equality of Opportunity

John Rawls published A Theory of Justice in 1971. At that time no moral problem was more widely discussed ...

2022 Teacher Shortage Statistics That Prove We Need To Fix Education