On the agenda – Week 43, 2012

What is on the agenda for higher education stakeholders all over the world? Every week ScienceGuide presents you with a selection of the most important topics and items trending in social media.

Take 1 – Open Access Week

@helmholz_en: “Access to research data is the elephant”: Christoph Bruch on Open Access for publications & data

@phd_comics: PhD-TV takes a look at a growing academic movement of Open Access: 

@library_laura: Elsevier celebrates Open Access Week: conflict of interest?

Take 2 – Research

@uniGoettingen: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth: investigate origins of vendettas in a group

@smjyot: The upside of not sleeping: fear gets harder to remember

@Plos_one: Extremely rare interbreeding events can explain Neanderthal DNA in living humans

Take 3 – Higher Education

@Icefmonitor: Increasing challenges around Iranian study abroad market

@wbez: US Study: College tuition prices on the rise

@jhwordsmith: An Education at a Glance for the post-recession world

…and this week on ScienceGuideEU

@ScienceGuideEU: The century of the high skilled immigrant

@ScienceGuideEU: Open Access pretty unstoppable now