Monthly Archives: July 2022

A Declaration on Bicycle Assessment

Posted on 31 July 2022 by Stephen

You’d think assessing bicycles would be a lot easier than assessing researchers, but I’m not so sure. Though I spend quite a bit of time as chair of the DORA steering committee pondering how best to evaluate research and researchers, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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To Travel or Not to Travel?

Posted on 27 July 2022 by Athene Donald

Now the academic year has come to an end, it is possible to start to reflect on the year past and what next year might, and I emphasise might, look like. This year has not been as full of Covid-stresses … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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What I Read In July

Posted on 27 July 2022 by Henry Gee

Steve Brusatte: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals The ink hardly dry on his bestselling The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (which I reviewed here) palaeontologist Steve Brusatte returns with what can only be the natural successor. It’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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High Noon, And I’d Sell My Soul For Water

Posted on 24 July 2022 by Henry Gee

July, 1998, and I am in the field near Lake Turkana in Kenya. The rains have been kind — but not so kind that the various rivers that drain into the lake aren’t dry, sandy highways. The lake water itself … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Marking UKRI’s scorecard

Posted on 21 July 2022 by Athene Donald

UKRI is still a relatively young organization, trying to find its way in a funding landscape that has been impacted by Brexit, a pandemic and now soaring inflation eating away at the value of every grant or PhD stipend. Nevertheless, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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In which climate apocalypse feels inevitable

Posted on 18 July 2022 by Jennifer Rohn

Here in England, we are braced for an historic heat wave. The Met Office has issued its first ever ‘Red Warning of Extreme Heat‘ for much of the UK, with temperatures set to reach a new record of 40 degrees … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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To the sea

Posted on 18 July 2022 by Stephen

With emails running alongside for the first part, barking for attention, we beat a retreat from London. The clamour of work was soon swamped by the heat and light and sights and sounds and smells of Barcelona, and by the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Persistence: the essence of science in a nutshell

Posted on 17 July 2022 by Steve Caplan

In 2015, I wrote a blog that was published in The Guardian titled “Can we expect a MIRAcle for biomedical researchers in the US?” In this blog I outlined the radical new plan of the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) General … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Your Stars For August

Posted on 17 July 2022 by Henry Gee

by Harry Specks Aries: Meetings. Bloody meetings. Everyone is always on their way to one, just back from one, or, perish the thought, in one. But what are they for? Do they achieve anything? If everyone hates them so much, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Older

Posted on 13 July 2022 by Henry Gee

You have been very patient. Thank you – yes, both of you. And you there, at the back, yes you, no, sorry, I didn’t see you come in. It’s been more than a week now since I finished transitioning from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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