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| Why I don't apply to US jobs any more |
| Up until last year, I was applying for faculty jobs in the US. With the news about the NIH funding being cut yet again, I ceased applying for the few advertised jobs. This morning I was alerted to a 2007 paper by ...[more] |
| NIH funding science politics jobs |
| Posted on Wednesday 18 June 2008 - 13:21:30 |
| 'Supplement' is an anachronistic pejorative for 'essential information' |
| Today's scholarly publishing system is full of anachronisms. While people still dwell endlessly on such prominent anachronisms as journal rankings, so far only few people are debating the anachronism of the widespread de...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 28 January 2010 - 13:39:57 |
| Elsevier's on a run - towards more bad PR that is |
Publishing giant Elsevier is really on a non-stop campaign for bad PR lately:
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| Elsevier science publishing science politics |
| Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2009 - 09:30:44 |
| The data confirm: don't get children before tenure |
| This morning, on the podcast of the journal Science was an interview with Beryl Lieff Benderly who covered the topic of women in science. They talked about a recent feature article in American Scientist precisely on tha...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 19 April 2012 - 10:31:39 |
| The future of scientific publishing |
| I'm sure nobody ending up on this obscure blog could have missed the current frenzy about a Nature news article by Declan Butler attacking PLoS. In the meatime, there has been a ...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 07 July 2008 - 14:41:05 |
| The other 97.8%: why is the Nature Publishing Group uncritically hyping the ERC? |
| In April Nature Genetics poured heaps of praise on a granting body that that awards grants only to 2.2% of all applicants. Let's recap: In 2007, there were about 9200 young scientists in Europe anxiously waiting for an o...[more] |
| ERC starting grant Nature Nature Genetics science politics science funding |
| Posted on Tuesday 12 August 2008 - 19:18:10 |
| Coturnix @ PLoS One |
| As regular ScienceBlog readers know, Coturnix is now employed by PLoS One as their Online Community Manager. He is already a prominent blogger on ScienceBlogs and now his reputation got a further boost by a thread over a...[more] |
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| Posted on Sunday 08 July 2007 - 13:24:22 |
| Measuring editors' performance objectively |
| Editors of schorarly, peer-reviewed journals often claim that somehow their choosiness is the most important verdict on the quality of a scientific manuscript. Points in case are Nature Neuroscience's peer-review policy,...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 05 July 2008 - 12:42:51 |
| Journals - the dinosaurs of scientific communication |
| The recent kerfuffle caused by Butler's article in Nature seems to have gotten quite a number of stones rolling. What I thought would be a rather slow process seems to be speeding up considerably because of Nature's rath...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 19 July 2008 - 19:13:40 |
| Nature: PLoS a threatening success |
| Coturnix alerts me to the fact that I'm late for a party yet again (as usual). Apparently, Nature is feeling the PLoS competition breathing down its neck. This can be seen in a Nature news article entitled "...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 04 July 2008 - 14:12:32 |
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