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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Wikipedia to Go Dark on Wednesday to Protest Bills on Web Piracy
Imagine: a day without Wikipedia…. Wikipedia to Go Dark on Wednesday to Protest Bills on Web Piracy – NY Times
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Martin Luther King: Science Advocate
@livingarchitect, Rachel Armstrong, passes along this great piece. It is a wonderful reminder of why reason & faith should not be seen as mutually exclusive. And captures some real insights on how an mindfully open science that is divorced from … Continue reading
NSB report on merit review “lacks teeth” with regard to enforcing Broader Impacts Criterion
At least according to a quote from Luis Echegoyen included here: Clarifying Review Criteria | January 16, 2012 Issue – Vol. 90 Issue 3 | Chemical & Engineering News.
Red Wine and Lies – Percolator – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Many of the responses in the article are great examples of ad hominem fallacies. What do I conclude about red wine from the fact that someone doing research on resveratrol fabricated research results? Nothing at all. Does the article present … Continue reading
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Open Access: Sharing Inspiration & Experience
@livingarchitect , Rachel Armstrong, posts this nice 90 second vid on sharing our work as we move along in our research. As I watch it, I recall Alex Mosiak’s post previous to this one. There is an important distinction to … Continue reading
Questioning the Wisdom of Crowds
Has there been an uncritical rush towards teamwork in the workplace? What are the consequences? In the course of this essay about the value of retaining individual autonomy in the workplace, open-plan office space and even the sacred cow of … Continue reading
Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 cover letter for a newspaper job – Boing Boing
Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 cover letter for a newspaper job – Boing Boing. Attention graduate students, and other job seekers: this is the way to write a job cover letter.
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The Real Danger Is to Research – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Real Danger Is to Research – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Article argues that the recent move to censor publications on bird flu virulence goes too far. The board that made this decision lacks the relevant expertise, … Continue reading
Science has a reflexive moment (sort of)
I came across this report from a workshop that discussed the need for consideration of the societal impacts, both beneficial and potentially harmful, of recent developments in the field of synthetic biology by synthetic biologists. It seems to represent a … Continue reading
‘Fracking’ (and its risks) Goes Global
Ian Urbina at the New York Times has written another excellent piece on the character of the economic momentum behind and environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing: this time in a global context. He focuses on South Africa, but Poland, Peru, … Continue reading
Scientists Ought to Take an Entrepreneurial Attitude toward Broader Impacts
Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled. This is the definition of entrepreneurship the article linked below discusses as the best ever. I agree that it’s excellent as definitions go. Let me suggest that adopting … Continue reading
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NSF “clarifies” Broader Impacts « Gas station without pumps
After reading the report (the body, not the hundreds of pages of appendices), I’m at least as confused as I was before about what the h*** NSF expects for Broader Impacts. (Gas station without pumps, hereafter GSWOP) What is revealed … Continue reading
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NSF Tweaks Its Merit Review Rules – ScienceInsider
Jeffrey Mervis on NSB’s decision and report on NSF’s merit review criteria. Still digesting the report, which is quite substantial. But it looks as if NSB and the Task Force on Merit Review did a bang-up job. Highlights include: Retaining … Continue reading
Research Bought, Then Paid For – NYTimes.com
Catchy title for an argument against the Research Works Act. Research Bought, Then Paid For – NYTimes.com.
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Does open access really threaten peer review?
Here, I mean peer review in the sense of pre-publication review by experts in a relevant field of manuscripts submitted for publication in scholarly journals. Peer review, in this sense, has been the backbone of scholarly publishing at least since … Continue reading
DCMS Blog: Welcome to the ‘Priceless?’ blog
Claire Donovan, a friend and colleague of CSID (and of individual members of the collective) launches a new interactive blog. The first topic: on the very idea of measuring cultural value. DCMS Blog: Welcome to the ‘Priceless?’ blog.
‘Badges’ Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas – College 2.0 – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The spread of a seemingly playful alternative to traditional diplomas, inspired by Boy Scout achievement patches and video-game power-ups, suggests that the standard certification system no longer works in today’s fast-changing job market. ‘Badges’ Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional … Continue reading
The Uneasy Technocratic Alliance
John Siegmund set the tone for the City of Denton’s appointed Gas Well Task Force. He articulated a classic engineering technocratic position that goes as follows. The problem with fracking is capitalism. The short-term profit motive of capitalists leads to … Continue reading
The Successful Secede
This is something I have been talking about now for almost three years. The realization was a logical outcome of following the critiques of Serge Latouche, Michel Foucault and a few others. I am not quite sure why more academics … Continue reading
Hobbes: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
A new book is out on Thomas Hobbes and our current political situation. This is an interview with the author, Prof. Ted H. Miller: Nature (and nature’s architect) had fallen short. With the right science, human beings could become the … Continue reading
Reshaping History… Research
Historians are also talking about what we at CSID have been describing for a while vis. the humanities & the future of the university… Life beyond the tenure track was a big topic. In a series of columns in the … Continue reading
A call for accountability in economics
Similar to a former post of mine about econometrics, this Chronicle article makes the case that the institutional incarnation of economics (i.e. economics as an academic discipline embedded in university and college institutions and its attendant culture) needs a reality-check; … Continue reading
New Ways to Measure Science | Wired Science | Wired.com
Thanks to @jasonpriem for Tweeting this article on altmetrics. New Ways to Measure Science | Wired Science | Wired.com.
Anguish Trumps Activism at the MLA – Labor & Work-Life Issues – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Anguish Trumps Activism at the MLA – Labor & Work-Life Issues – The Chronicle of Higher Education. A constant drumbeat of this stuff now….
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MLA considers radical changes in the dissertation | Inside Higher Ed
MLA considers radical changes in the dissertation | Inside Higher Ed. We are finally seeing some real movement, in terms of shifting perspectives toward the academy, dissertations, and the humanities. About time.
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