Let's emerge from the pandemic lockdown into a fairer academic world.

Let's emerge from the pandemic lockdown into a fairer academic world. Curr Biol. 2020 Jul 20;30(14):R799 Authors: King KC, Hurst GDD, Lewis Z Abstract At the beginning of the pandemic, as universities were shutting, a meme did the rounds on social media. Some academics suggested that they were looking forward to increased productivity in grant and paper writing under lockdown. They cited the fact that Isaac Newton came up with his theory of gravity whilst quarantined during the bubonic plague. Globally, the reaction from many was to inwardly - or publicly - scream. PMID: 32693069 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Current Biology - July 19, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: King KC, Hurst GDD, Lewis Z Tags: Curr Biol Source Type: research