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We need to stop romanticising the old-school technician
Aaqib Ayub asks if technicians are so instrumental to research, why do they remain undervalued
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The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
Daniel Hook argues that frictionless technologies are teaching us to prefer our own company – and that research leaders should be worried
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The real collaboration question isn’t what, but why – and how?
On 3 November Wonkhe will host The Collaboration Question in London. Debbie McVitty assesses where the conversation has got to and where it needs to go from here
The tone has changed on free speech, but the architecture hasn’t
Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS's consultation on the free speech conditions of registration
Can a dashboard solve higher education planning?
OfS has built one dashboard to rule them all - DK has thoughts
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