Bad Choices in Dresden IV
A guide on what qualities universities in Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe expect from their foreign PhD students and postdocs.
Tag: Reyhane Eghtedarian
Schneider Short 7.03.2025 – Unfortunately, the past cannot be restored
Schneider Shorts 7.03.2025 – Royal Society salutes Nazi oligarch, Belgian university uses poverty excuse, Chinese surgeons cure Alzheimer’s, with an untrustworthy Italian biotech, a revised correction, circular plagiarism, even more retractions, an erased paper, and finally, with mice turned into mammoths!
Schneider Shorts 7.06.2024 – A giant reservoir of energy for knowledge and curiosity
Schneider Shorts 7.06.2024 – Papermillers never die, New Declaration of Helsinki, a failed crusade for scientific truth, with two “doing the right thing” retractions, sole culprit found 11 years later, a publisher cleanup, and finally, with a Nobelist’s grandson who wants to sell you pomegranate supplements.
Look What the Cat Dragged In
Meet Mohammad Taheri, PhD, a humble PhD student in Jena, Germany, and his equally unremarkable Iranian associate Dr Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard.
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