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| The economic impact of science funding |
| The Scientist has a great article on the economic impact science has on society. Even for purely academic research the economic benefits for society as a whole are substantial. Head on over and read the article, it's wor...[more] |
| funding science politics The Scientist |
| Posted on Monday 09 July 2007 - 19:27:56 |
| Incentivizing open scientific discussion |
| Coturnix' "obligatory reading of the day" brought me to this interesting essay on open science. I think it catches most of the most important idiosyncracies of the modern science business and offers some very promising a...[more] |
| open science science blogging science politics |
| Posted on Friday 18 July 2008 - 17:55:49 |
| ERC failing to achieve reputation for excellence? |
| There's a great editorial in this week's Nature issue: "Division of Labour". It's about the European Reasearch Comission (ERC) and its first round of grant review for the new "startup" grants. The main topic is transpare...[more] |
| ERC grant science politics science funding |
| Posted on Thursday 16 August 2007 - 12:41:54 |
| a plea for basic science |
| The Washington Post has a great article about the values of basic research: "The U.S. scientific enterprise is riddled with evidence that Americans have lost sight of the value of non-applied, curiosity-driven research --...[more] |
| basic science science science politics |
| Posted on Sunday 10 April 2005 - 12:39:18 |
| Open Science |
| Coturnix over at ScienceBlogs.com has an interesting blog post on Open Science, meaning that people keep their lab notebooks public. I commented on the topic: ...[more] |
| science politics science politics open science |
| Posted on Friday 04 May 2007 - 18:01:51 |
| ERC starting grant hugely popular |
| Speaking of press releases about popular sites for scientists, the newly formed European Research Council (ERC) reports that its very first call for proposals has received a record number of applications. The call for th...[more] |
| science politics science politics ERC grants |
| Posted on Friday 04 May 2007 - 17:34:33 |
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| science politics science politics editors science publishing |
| Posted on Thursday 01 January 1970 - 01:00:00 |
| Polishing scientific results |
| In a follow-up to the last post on scientific misconduct, I think it is already becoming apparent that the incidence of "polishing" scientific data is on the rise. With "polishing" I refer to omission of experiments that...[more] |
| science politics science politics misconduct |
| Posted on Monday 29 January 2007 - 14:55:11 |
| Research funding down across the board in US |
| Confirming a report from last year on NIH funding, the journal Science now reports figures from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) showing that federal support for academic research, in real terms, has dropped fo...[more] |
| NSF funding science politics jobs |
| Posted on Friday 29 August 2008 - 08:51:26 |
| Scientific misconduct |
| Both The Scientist and Nature feature scientific misconduct prominently in their current issues: A Fluctuating Reality (The Scientist) Breeding Cheats (Nature - see also related articles) An earlier Wired article also cover...[more] |
| science politics science politics misconduct |
| Posted on Thursday 18 January 2007 - 17:20:07 |