Journal behaviour encouraging ‘questionable research practices’
Social science scholars are attempting to produce ‘impossible results’ due to demands from journal editors, finds study
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Gun control research: is trickle turning into a flow?
Recent attempts to get round US gun lobby’s blocking of federal funds for gun violence research could be making an impact. Jon Marcus reports
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Leslie Jesch, 1926-2016
A leading authority on the application of solar energy has died
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EU law lecture’s success shows ‘people don’t want to be lied to’
Liverpool’s Michael Dougan on ‘poisonous’ anti-expert rhetoric and the UK’s EEA deal chances
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Interview with Jean-Claude Worms
We talk Brexit, astronaut aspirations and the difficulties of surfing in a landlocked region
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Righting America at the Creation Museum, by Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr.
Book of the week: Randy Malamud on two scholars’ exploration of a temple of Christian fundamentalist belief
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What are you reading? – 21 July 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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ISIS: A History, by Fawaz A. Gerges
Unbeatable? This extremist group has little to offer in times of peace, says Christina Hellmich
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In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology and Early Irish Literature, by J. P. Mallory
Kaarina Hollo on a study comparing medieval manuscripts with evidence on the ground to illuminate life in Iron Age Ireland
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Fabian fee plan aims to ‘make Corbynism practical’
Thinktank proposes to fund Corbyn goal of scrapping fees by National Insurance education accounts
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What is a Dog? by Raymond Coppinger and Lorna Coppinger
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a revealing study focusing on the evolution of unleashed canines
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Shakespeare’s Dead, by Simon Palfrey and Emma Smith
A study confronts the theme of mortality during the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s passing
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Books interview: Diarmaid MacCulloch
The church historian and author of All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation on the journey from E. Nesbit to Ian Kershaw and the comforting certainties of detective fiction
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The Chilcot report: the longest work of academic history ever?
The report’s deep meditation on foreign policy makes it more than an inquest into the failings of individuals and institutions in the conduct of the Iraq War, argues Glen Rangwala
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Moocs can transform education – but not yet
Whether or not Moocs live up to the hype, technology’s impact on universities is real and growing, Stanford University’s John Hennessy tells Ellie Bothwell