Researchers in the education sphere benefit from collaboration and idea-sharing.
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There’s a motivated, enthusiastic younger generation of scholars in South Africa who need support and mentoring.
Making short films can change the way people learn.
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Making films meets many needs of young people by combining the learning of soft skills, computer literacy and artistic expression.
Whooping cranes are listed as threatened - their conservation hinges on joined-up efforts along their migration routes.
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Nature knows no borders. While decline of threatened migratory animals is alarming, there are reasons to be optimistic about international conservation efforts.
Effective collaboration requires addressing hierarchical mindsets.
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Though the Global South tends to experience higher disease burdens, most public health decisions and knowledge generation are centered in the Global North.
A suspected Russian collaborator arrested in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Liberated cities are prone to vigilante justice against those accused of conspiring with the enemy.
It’s crucial that medical professionals learn to collaborate.
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It’s all too common for health professionals and departments to slip into silo mentalities.
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Collaboration is often promoted as a tool for harnessing collective intelligence. But sometimes working solo is the best option.
Yoshiko Kawashima, Felix Kersten and Friedrich Weinreb.
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Collaborators cannot be reduced to single types. Their motivations are varied and can be hard to interpret.
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‘Mind-reading’ requires the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, predicting their actions and reading their emotions.
Bringing scientific research online can help improve collaboration to a degree.
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The European Union’s 10-year Human Brain Project is coming to a close. Whether this controversial 1 billion-euro project achieved its aims is unclear, but its online forum did foster collaboration.
Though Richard Avedon started his career as a fashion photographer, he later became known for his unflinching eye.
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In a 1959 essay, Capote noted how Avedon seemed to capture ‘every hard-earned crow’s foot’ in his subjects – perhaps not realizing that he would one day be photographed by that same unvarnished gaze.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals have been on the agenda at this year’s COP27 meeting in Egypt.
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The UN Sustainable Development Goals set a target date of 2030. To meet that deadline, international collaboration and funding is required.
Ye, formerly Kanye West, lost some of his corporate partners after expressing antisemitic remarks.
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While corporate partnerships can be ‘win-win’ arrangements, sometimes they don’t work out – especially when values don’t align.
A green turtle with a satellite tag at Poilão Island, Guinea-Bissau. Photo: Miguel Varela.
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Protecting green turtles is difficult because they perform some of the longest migrations known in the animal kingdom.
Brainstorming in a group can be challenging – but it can yield unique, innovative results.
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With companies encouraging greater teamwork, an expert outlines how to innovate effectively and problem solve as a group.
Gaming nous and the ability to manage multiple digital identities gives young people an edge in the VR workplace.
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Young people have lost out from recent developments in the labour market. Could the shift to working in virtual reality be about to turn the tables?
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Users can place one pixel every five minutes: it’s collaboration at its best, destructive chaos at its worst.
Like much else, scientific labs have been shut down by the pandemic.
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Supply chain issues, emergency science, social distancing requirements and a lot more free time offered both challenges and opportunities for research scientists.
Why do we give without expecting anything in return? Research into a Silicon Valley business accelerator program shows bonding rituals play a big role.
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New research on giving in a business setting could offer insights into human interactions and critical lessons for organizations looking to build a more collaborative culture.
Instead of asking how universities might benefit from shifting courses online permanently, we ought to ask how students might suffer from fewer opportunities for lived experience and practice.
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We ought to worry that the pandemic has made it even easier to reduce teaching to disseminating knowledge.