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Scientists pressured to falsely credit co-authors

Scientists need to publish to get research grants - and established scientists are demanding to be cited as co-authors on younger scientists' work. Experts say it's time for more rules

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Politics

PhD student stood up to top scientist

PhD student Annemette Nielsen refused to credit a top scientist and two members of his team as co-authors on her publications. She thereby broke an unspoken rule, but was officially deemed to be in the right when the matter was taken further -

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Politics

Response: Interdisciplinary research is more than sharing data

The strength of interdiscplinary research lies in targeting a problem with a combination of different methods — not using separate, isolated sets of data. Arne Astrup responds

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Culture

7 Danish films you need to see

Watch these seven films, and you can take part in an intelligent conversation about ‘Danish film’

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Culture

iPhone 5 competition at University Post

iPhone 5 smartphone, Tivoli tickets and drinks tickets at the student café. All up for grabs

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Science

Media reports: Case against Penkowa dropped

Police drop charges against brain scientist Milena Penkowa, report media

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Could you simply not eat for a day?

In this first installment of our new science & research feature, Martin Borch Jensen writes in to tell us about how eating every second day could extend his life

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Campus

Editorial: University Post in your inbox

Newsletters from the University Post, and the Danish-language site Uniavisen, will now automatically be sent to all students and staff

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Campus

Dentists lose DKK 40,000 gold stash

A large reserve of gold, used for dentures, is missing from the dentists' school, the Department of Odontology. An external audit proves that no one has been taking stock of the precious metal

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Politics

North-south divide in Europe's science funding

The South and East of Europe face cuts to education and research budgets. Not so, the North and West. European University Association warns of the consequences

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