O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. –William Blake Peter Lawrence has weighed into the debate on the state of research in an article for Lab Times, boldly…
Open source, open access, open posters even–but open science? Is that a step too far? The arguments over whether open data–publishing experimental results on the web, making datasets available, etc.–is a good thing, for science as a whole or individual careers, are likely to rage for quite a long time to come. That hasn’t stopped…
The Wakefield story rumbles on. Last week we linked to the BMJ editorial, signed by Fiona Godlee, Jane Smith and Harvey Marcovitch, introducing investigative journalist Brian Deer’s report on the extent of the autism/vaccine fraud. Yesterday, we linked to the first piece by Deer, in which he describes the scientific discrepancies: the details of the…
Martin Fenner at PLoS Blogs wrote an open letter in response to Christian Specht’s analysis of “mutations” in citations of the famous paper describing SDS-PAGE by Uli Laemmli. Specht has now responded at The Scientist, with a thought-provoking conclusion: However, the fact that citation variants can be inherited may be an indication for a much…
If I were a visitor from another world, what would be my impression of how we do science? First the good news. As we noted yesterday, the number of PhDs achieved by women in the US, across all disciplines, exceeded the number obtained for men. The distribution is reasonably field specific, as you can tell…
This is a condensed excerpt from my upcoming book, The Golden Ticket In Science: Funding and Recognition Through The Power of Marketing. How are you like a laundry detergent? I
Carmen D’Cruz flies the flag for science communication
Looming budget cuts are set to wipe out whole research groups at the Natural History Museum, but a concerted effort from the community may yet save them. The ongoing financial crisis, and the determination of the new coalition Government to tackle it, undoubtedly signal hard times to come for science in Britain. Professor Brian Cox…
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