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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Impact factors are clouding our judgement
Nature has an interesting news feature this week on impact factors. Eugenie Samuel Reich’s article — part of a special supplement covering various aspects of the rather ill-defined notion of impact — explores whether publication in journals such as Nature or Science is … Continue reading
Posted in impact factor, Open Access, Scientific Life
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Search engines – out with the old, in with the new
Back in the summer Yahoo announced that it was to close the search engine AltaVista, and that duly happened in July. I suspect that most people’s reaction would be either “what on earth is Alta Vista?” or “Blimey! Is that … Continue reading
Posted in Searching
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Mass disgruntlement among scientists is growing
This popped into my inbox today, and probably into those of every other American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology member. Life made easy–no need to blog my disgruntlement–it’s all been done for me (see standard letter below). But I … Continue reading
Posted in budget, NIH, Research, save science now!, science, sequester, US government
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Lovelace
I am reliably informed that today is Ada Lovelace Day, in which it behooves one to commemorate the contribution to science of female scientists. Like Christmas, this comes round every year, and, like Christmas, I struggle to find anything novel … Continue reading
Posted in aspergers, autism spectrum, gender imbalance, Jane Gray, Lovelace, meredith l patterson, Politicrox, Research, sexism, Women in science
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Puerto Rico, my heart’s devotion
While helping Mr E Man book the final leg of our upcoming vacation yesterday, I realised that it’s been almost a whole year since we went to Puerto Rico and I still haven’t blogged about it. BAD blogger! We flew … Continue reading
Posted in drunkenness, family, fun with language, personal, photos, travel
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On watching my country go crazy – and why science is important
Like much of the rest of America (and the world) I have been watching US shutdown theatre in horror. I posted a few years ago about how I didn’t think the Tea Party was the end of Democracy as we … Continue reading
Posted in Science Funding, Science funding and the US shutdown, US shutdown
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The UK and New Zealand: two very different approaches to the problems of “legal highs”.
In many people’s minds, the county of Devon is synonymous with cream teas, cider and summer holidays so it may come as a surprise to hear that Devon has its fair share of social problems. Over the past few months … Continue reading
Posted in cannabis, drug laws, Guest posts, head shops, legal highs, New Zealand, Psychoactive Substances Bill, synthetic cannabinoids, tetrahydrocannabinol
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FeedMyReads
Without quite knowing how, I have become embroiled in a very busy writerly collective with a social media presence as busy as an invasion of killer termites. It’s called FeedMyReads and it’s about to launch what looks like the most … Continue reading
Posted in Books, FeedMyReads, social media, The Accidental Species, Writing, Writing & Reading
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Cold-calling in the Job Market
A week ago there was a minute cause for celebration with the news that the number of women on FTSE100 Boards of Directors had reached the stunning level of 19%. At least that figure is heading in the right direction … Continue reading
Posted in careers, confidence, Equality, gender pay gap, head hunters
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Attack Budgies: leaks from the secret labs of GrrlScientist
This morning I was gravely offended by being described as an “attack parrot”. The offender’s mitigation was that he had originally wanted to call me an “attack budgie”, but had refrained, presumably because he thought an attack budgie sounded less … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, Silliness
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