🍎your Scholarly Digest 6th March, 2025

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Hey Scholar, here's what we have for you this week:

• PhD and postdoctoral opportunities 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇩🇰;

• Is research a completely human endeavour (and we’re not talking about animals);

• Are chemistry professors really paid more than anthropologists?

• Social science for national security loses funding;

and other carefully curated distractions from your actual work.

Brain Food

Is Research a Completely Human Endeavor?

In one sense, research is undeniably human—it begins with innately human faculties like imagination, creativity, judgment, insight - the list goes on. It is also aimed at advancing human society. Both of these taken together might be enough to argue that research is a human endeavour. But is that all there is to research?

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