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Questions tagged [politics]

Questions about personal and public political beliefs of individuals in academia. For questions related to the academic field of political science, use the [political-science] tag. For regular politics questions, visit our sister site Politics Stack Exchange.

Questions about personal and public political beliefs of individuals in academia.

For questions related to the academic field of political science, use the tag.

For regular politics questions, visit our sister site Politics Stack Exchange.

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Successful survival strategies for academic departments threatened with closure

Every now and again, academic departments are threatened with closure by university administrations. One current example: Pure Mathematics in Leicester is under threat of closure (making academic staff redundant). What successful strategies have…
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Disputed territorial claims in academic submissions

This year I was asked to blind-review a paper which showed a map of China in the disputed Nine-Dash Line borders. I have seen the Nature Editorial from 2011 which discusses and criticizes this phenomenon (and suggests that there is a directive from…
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How do I survive academia as a Trump supporter?

Academia is highly liberal - which is fine. I don't mind liberals in general. However I voted for Trump. I had a weird experience recently. I was chatting with some people at a conference at dinner and one older, well established, professor started…
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How do researchers cope with political backlash from working on controversial topics?

Suppose, a researcher is very interested and enthusiastic about a controversial topic. If he works on that topic and publishes papers, he may be in political trouble from his government or another government. Think about an Armenian researcher who…
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