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Twitter, peer review and altmetrics: the future of research impact assessment | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional
Scroll down to the comments below the article for discussion. Twitter, peer review and altmetrics: the future of research impact assessment | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional.
Making academic knowledge useful to policy : why “supply” solutions are not the whole story | Impact of Social Sciences
For those interested in reconciling the supply of with the demand for knowledge: Making academic knowledge useful to policy : why “supply” solutions are not the whole story | Impact of Social Sciences.
Periodic Fractal of the Elements
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Tagged creative visual, fractal, innovative view, periodic table, science
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The Brain & Beyond: Science, Society, and the Person
The 1980s saw a revolution in psychiatric science, and it brought enormous excitement about what the new biomedical approach to serious psychiatric illness could offer to patients like Susan. To signal how much psychiatry had changed since its tweedy psychoanalytic … Continue reading
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Tagged brain, causation, medication, mind, psychiatry, psychology, psychopathology, schizophrenia, scientism, sociology
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Study shows gender bias in science is real… Scientific American Blog Network
Whenever the subject of women in science comes up, there are people fiercely committed to the idea that sexism does not exist. They will point to everything and anything else to explain differences while becoming angry and condescending if you … Continue reading
Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
When I became a professor, 20 years ago, I received a request from a woman who lived close to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I taught: Could she come and talk to me about a set of interests she … Continue reading
So Many Hands to Hold in the Classroom – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
A more and more common trend that seems to be tied to how educational cooperatives (colleges & universities) are becoming more & more like financial corporations who operate via an advertising curriculum that tells clients what they need and what … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, college, education, university
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5 New Technologies That Have Changed The Digital Classroom | Edudemic
In the past, the suggestion of getting a college degree without ever cracking a book meant paying a degree mill. It meant the degree was in name only, reflecting neither learning nor effort. Then distance learning meant correspondence courses, perhaps … Continue reading
A simple plan for open access?
So, I worked hard, wrote a paper, and submitted it for publication in a special issue of a prominent journal in the philosophy of science. The paper went through peer review and two rounds of editorial comments, which I responded … Continue reading
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On the benefits of a philosophy major « Pleas and Excuses
The blog post below has a very nice graphic which details the proven skills that one obtains with a degree in philosophy. While I am tired of having to justify this over and over, I think it is important to … Continue reading
Can E-Tutoring Bridge Economic Divides?
In a 1984 paper that is regarded as a classic of educational psychology, Benjamin Bloom, a professor at the University of Chicago, showed that being tutored is the most effective way to learn, vastly superior to being taught in a classroom. … Continue reading
INIT Interdisciplines virtual seminar on transdisciplinarity
Welcome to the INIT series on Interdisciplines: INIT, the International Network of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity, is continuing to host a Virtual Seminar on Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Horizons on the platform Interdisciplines. We invite everyone to participate in a new forum … Continue reading
First Golden Goose Awards Honor Ideas That Hatched Unexpectedly – ScienceInsider
First Golden Goose Awards Honor Ideas That Hatched Unexpectedly – ScienceInsider. Funny counterpoint to the Golden Fleece Awards, which highlight purported wastes of taxpayer money. But there’s a serious message here that ought to be treated seriously: we can’t know … Continue reading
Scientists Offer New Formula to Predict Career Success – Percolator – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Scientists Offer New Formula to Predict Career Success – Percolator – The Chronicle of Higher Education. I’m posting this now without further comment. I hope to find time to think this through soon! In the meantime, regular readers of the … Continue reading
Knowledge Useful?
Interdisciplinarity is motivated by the 20th century failure of disciplinary knowledge to be relevant. But rather than questioning whether knowledge itself is relevant to our problems, rather than, say, being a matter of will (cf. Nicomachean Ethics Book 7, on … Continue reading
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The Central Concept of Disciplinarity
The central idea of disciplinarity: the separation of knowledge production from knowledge use. This means: talk of method is hopeless, since there is no method to politics.
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The Religiosity of the Fracking Debate
CSID Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle publishes at Science Progress: The debate over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the shale gas revolution it has spawned has a religious aura to it. Both sides have an unshakeable conviction that fracking is either … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, debate, exploration, fracking, hydrofracturing, polemic, religion
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Struggle for Water in Colorado With Rise in Fracking – NYTimes.com
Struggle for Water in Colorado With Rise in Fracking – NYTimes.com. An indication of our thirst for fossil fuels ….
Welcome to the new reputation economy Wired UK
This article contains so many ideas that are like unripe fruit. Multiple books could be (and may well be) written about them. Welcome to the new reputation economy Wired UK. Among the issues raised: Who counts as a peer? Who … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Peer Review, Science and technology ramifications
Tagged peer assessment, reputation
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