Safety alerts must reach visiting PhD students

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    1. Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, China.

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Demonstrations across France last month highlight a practical concern for international academic-exchange programmes: how can visiting PhD students, who are working in an unfamiliar country for a short time, keep up to date with safety information?

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Nature 659, 264 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03560-8

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