Abjection overruled! Time to dismantle sexist cyberbullying in academia

Coroner overruled: time for reform?

As pressure mounts for a change in the way coroners' inquests are conducted more challenges to inquest verdicts are reaching the high court. Last month, quashing the jury's verdict in an inquest described by Mr Justice Peter Pain as "hopelessly flawed," the court recognised "lack of care" as a possible verdict in appropriate cases and clarified the ambit ofthe verdict in cases in which medical ...

How to Dismantle a Detonator Synapse

Direct electrophysiological evaluation of ion channels in vertebrate presynaptic nerve terminals has been limited to synapses such as the neuromuscular junction and the giant calyx of Held. In this issue of Neuron, Engel and Jonas demonstrate that mossy fiber boutons have specialized voltage-gated Na(+) channels that critically impact upon presynaptic Ca(2+) influx by amplifying terminal invadi...

Don’t Talk Dirty to Me: How Sexist Beliefs Affect Experience in Sexist Games

Research on sexism in digital games has suggested that women self-select out of playing sexist games; however, assuming a homogenous gender-based response does not account for the diversity of identities within a gender group. Gender-incongruent responses to recent events like #gamergate implies that the gender of the participant is not paramount to experience, but that their beliefs about gend...

Research supervision styles in Iranian academia: from facilitation to exploitation!

number of postgraduate students has been growing exponentially in Iran in the last two decades. That is while the number of faculty has not increased proportionally to keep up with the fast growth. Hence, the student-faculty ratio has widened, turning thesis and dissertations into chaotic scene. Accordingly, this paper aims at uncovering how Iranian professors supervise postgraduate research pr...

New ways to dismantle a ticking time bomb: microRNA 712/205 and abdominal aortic aneurysm development.