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Category Archives: STEM Policy
The price of innovation – thoughts from Beyond the PDF | Impact of Social Sciences
The price of innovation – thoughts from Beyond the PDF | Impact of Social Sciences.
Broader Impacts of the Fact that NASA Suspends All Education and Public Outreach Update – NASA Watch
Effective immediately, all education and public outreach activities should be suspended, pending further review. In terms of scope, this includes all public engagement and outreach events, programs, activities, and products developed and implemented by Headquarters, Mission Directorates, and Centers across … Continue reading
Open Access, the Impact Agenda and resistance to the neoliberal paradigm | Impact of Social Sciences
Yesterday’s post introduced the context of neoliberalism as the backdrop of change in higher education. Here Martin Eve provides further clarification of the neoliberal context, linking the impact agenda under the Research Excellence Framework as a key trait of a privatised … Continue reading
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Five habits of great students: Lessons from top-ranked STEM school | WSJ
I like this piece from the WSJ. The authors are a world history and an English teacher at the top-ranked high school for STEM education. They identify five habits of their most successful students: 1) frequent reading in a variety of subjects … Continue reading
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Does technological liberation have to come at a price?
A good read from Evgeny Morozov at the WSJ: Are Smart Gadgets Making Us Dumb? Once we step into this magic space, we are surrounded by video cameras that recognize whatever ingredients we hold in our hands. Tiny countertop robots inform … Continue reading
Conservatives declare war on college – Salon.com
Good insight from Andrew Leonard: For many conservatives, the humanities departments of public universities are bastions of the “tenured left” busily brainwashing the young people of America into godless socialist postmodernism. They’d much rather for-profit corporations were in charge of … Continue reading
Institutions starting to walk the Broader Impacts walk
CSID’s own Robert Frodeman is slated to keynote an upcoming Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit. This summit marks the first of its kind for its focus on institutional infrastructure, primarily at universities and colleges, to support faculty and staff in coordinating, … Continue reading
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What are the goalposts for science, and why should we care?
I recently ran across this analysis by Dan Hind in Al Jazeera. It’s a delighfully cogent summary of the main drivers of the scientific enterprise: unaccountable power in the form of national and corporate investment, which determines to a large … Continue reading
“The Individual and Scholarly Networks” webinar: Notes from the not-so-underground philosopher
My initial reaction is that the single-day webinar in which I presented on Tuesday (and in which I was the only humanist – !) was a success. Excepting some minor and very intermittent technical difficulties with sound and visual, the presenters … Continue reading
“The Individual and Scholarly Networks” — Research Trends Webinar
Just finished listening to this webinar, in which CSID’s own Kelli Barr participated as a presenter. One of the most interesting aspects of the webinar was the discussion of the use of new ways for the individual researcher to extend … Continue reading
Is NSF’s ‘Product’ Category a Finished Product? – Science Careers
Science Careers weighs in on NSF’s recent changes to the Grant Proposal Guide: Is NSF’s ‘Product’ Category a Finished Product? – Science Careers – Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers. Interesting take on what counts as a ‘product’ … Continue reading
John Kay – London’s rise from sewer to spectacle
John Kay – London’s rise from sewer to spectacle. On the limits of cost-benefit analysis.
Posted in Accountability, Metrics, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy
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Don’t Underestimate NSF’s New Grant-Submission Rules – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education
I left a comment* about one point I take issue with; but this is a good article, with lots of good advice. Don’t Underestimate NSF’s New Grant-Submission Rules – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education. * Just … Continue reading
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Value all Research Products « Research Remix
Heather Piwowar (aka @ResearchRemix) has just published a pre-print version of her recently published Nature article on NSF’s new bio-sketch requirements. First draft of just-published Value all Research Products « Research Remix. This version is as interesting from the meta-standpoint … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Future of the University, Metrics, NSF, Open Access, STEM Policy
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50 Best Blogs for Following Science Policy – Online College.org
50 Best Blogs for Following Science Policy – Online College.org.
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Science, the public and the history of science | Rebekah Higgitt | Science | guardian.co.uk
Nice piece from Rebekah Higgitt: Science, the public and the history of science | Rebekah Higgitt | Science | guardian.co.uk.
The looming spectre of differential tuition
Someone can do the relatively simple accounting and see that the humanities–”majors without an immediate job payoff”–are already subsidizing those which have a “job payoff.” In fact, this was already done at few institutions, including UCLA. But this is a … Continue reading
America’s secret fracking war – Salon.com
There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life. In the end, … Continue reading
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Tagged DAG, economics, economy, ecophilosophy, energy, environment, exploration, gas fracking, hydraulic fracking, hydraulic fracturing, jobs, war
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Climate Change & the Research Scientist
Does this make an argument for moving elite research centers–for which the Federal government & corporations pay out an enormous amount of money over many years–to areas that will be less physically hit by global warming… in like, I don’t know, North … Continue reading
X PRIZE Foundation and Shell Convene “Visioneers” to Explore Innovation to Help Address China’s Energy Challenge | X PRIZE Foundation
Compare the ‘visioneers’ to Fuller’s ‘moral entrepreneur‘. Open and incentivized innovation can help leverage existing research and development dollars by hosting a prize competition with a clear goal and allowing teams to compete to achieve that goal while securing their … Continue reading
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model » DigitalKoans
Yet another method for assessing impact, this one geared specifically toward the impact of digital resources: DigitalKoans » Blog Archive Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model » DigitalKoans. The ‘Balanced Value Impact Model’ defines impact … Continue reading
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European Research Council President Helga Nowotny urges support for ‘Horizon 2020′
Here is what Nowotny had to say: “This strong message to the leaders of Europe confirms the importance of the ERC Scientific Council’s strategy to find, fund and empower the best researchers. It is therefore vital that the future EU … Continue reading
What’s in a name? ORCID Registry aims to prevent authorship confusion
Holly Falk-Krzesinski shares her experiences regarding choosing which name to publish under — as well as a romantic story about her marriage: ORCID Registry aims to prevent authorship confusion | Elsevier Connect. I signed up for my own account in part … Continue reading
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Will the REF disadvantage interdisciplinary research? The inadvertent effects of journal rankings | Impact of Social Sciences
Ismael Rafols uncovers bias against interdisciplinary research and programs. Will the REF disadvantage interdisciplinary research? The inadvertent effects of journal rankings | Impact of Social Sciences.