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• Which Canadian institutions lead in high-quality research output?

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Tough times ahead for universities

A survey of 200 university administrators worldwide about the effects of COVID-19 on institutional finances paints an uncertain future for early-career academic researchers. The survey, conducted by the London-based publication Times Higher Education, finds that 12% of respondents are planning redundancies for faculty members and staff in the next 6 months, with 19% planning furloughs or compulsory paid leave, and 12% planning pay cuts.
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Where I work

Cognitive neuroscientist Agnieszka Wykowska works with iCub robots to explore what sort of feelings or thoughts robots evoke in people. Despite her intimacy with the cold, hard truth of iCub’s nature, she’s not immune to anthropomorphizing it. “I must say that I do feel attached to the robot sometimes,” says Wykowska. “Very often, I think, ‘Oh, my robot is sad, annoyed or bored right now.’”

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A big data approach to improving the vehicle emission inventory in China  OPEN

Fanyuan Deng, Zhaofeng Lv, Lijuan Qi, Xiaotong Wang, Mengshuang Shi & Huan Liu

There lacks a method to measure the rapid changes of vehicle emissions. Here the authors proposed a big data approach ‘TrackATruck’, and their estimates using the new approach show that the heavy-duty trucks (HDT) emissions of primary cargo routes/terminals were underestimated by 2–10 times in proxy-based emission inventories.

03 June 2020 | doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16579-w