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Synaptic Transfer and Interdisciplinarity
I spent much of the Christmas break admiring my new granddaughter’s constantly changing and newly acquired skills as she progressed from 8 weeks old to 10; the sense of new synaptic connections being made was very strong as her hand-eye … Continue reading
Beyond the Silo Mentality
I have been fretting about the challenges of appropriately evaluating interdisciplinary work for many years. My specific beef has been about grant assessment in the Research Councils at the interface between physics and biology, because that is where my research … Continue reading
Moving Beyond a Silo Mentality
Wherever I turn currently I seem to come up against the questions that assessing interdisciplinary research throws up. Nature recently had a special issue highlighting some of the challenges and rewards, but taking a very broad brush approach. Its editorial … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinary Science, Science Funding
Tagged committee meetings, ERC, refereeing, research councils
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Knowing What You Know (and What You Don’t)
This whole blog of mine was meant to be about interdisciplinary science. At least, when I started it up, 3 years ago next month, that was what I had in mind as my major theme. In fact, like so much … Continue reading
Charisma throughout a Convoluted Career
One of the joys of Christmas is having the time to reduce the number of unread books on one’s mental ‘to do’ list by a handful, although this is a good intention sometimes challenged by the gain of a few … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Interdisciplinary Science, Research
Tagged ESPCI, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, soft matter physics
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