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Author Archives: Stephen
Science, art and Art
Last week I attended the award ceremony of the Wellcome Image Awards. Every time I go to this event I tell myself I’ll submit an entry for the following year, but somehow I never manage to get a submission organised. I suspect my … Continue reading
Interview with the author
Those of you who have read all 346 posts on my Reciprocal Space blog will have no need to read this one. You probably already have a sense of what I do and what I’m like – my science, my … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific Life
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Status Report – February 2017
I said when I started this blog in 2008 that I would not promise to post regularly, so as to avoid the endless repetition of apologies for failing to write. And I’m not about to start apologising now, even though … Continue reading
Posted in ICYMI
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ICYMI No.10 – New Year’s Resolution
Along with many of my academic colleagues from across the nation, I was asked by the Times Higher Education to set down at least one new year’s resolution for 2017. I drew inspiration from Richard Hamming (whom I wrote about … Continue reading
2016 in pictures
Rather than attempt to sum up this tumultuous year in yet more words, let me share with you some of the photographs I took in 2016. The image below is an embedded album from my Flickr account. I’m not sure … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Science & Art
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ICYMI No. 9: Preprints and Embargoes
I’m rather late getting round to this but, for the record, here is a piece I wrote for Research Fortnight in late November on the challenges that preprints pose to embargoed press releases of research reports. The tl;dr version (though the piece … Continue reading
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ICYMI No.8: Being Professorial
I was among several people who contributed to a feature in this weeks’ Times Higher Education on being a professor. My brief was (briefly): “Questions you might want to address are whether you should somehow have to conduct yourself differently? … Continue reading
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President Trump – first response
This morning I was asked for a comment on the implications of the US presidential election for the scientific world. This was my immediate response: Unlike the day after the EU referendum vote, when I was bitterly upset, I just … Continue reading
Posted in Science & Politics
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Higher Education and Research Bill – Letter to my MP
Science is Vital this week launched a campaign to seek amendments to the Higher Education and Research Bill 2016. The bill is a rather dry and procedural piece of legislation but hidden amongst its many sections and schedules are real … Continue reading
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Ways of Seeing
It is the weekend and I have been treating myself to some time with the paper. Usually, I buy the Saturday Guardian. On occasion I will also get The Observer on a Sunday but most weekends I don’t have the … Continue reading
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Tagged Civilisation, Documentary, John Berger, Kenneth Clark, Television, Ways of Seeing
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Pride and Prejudice and journal citation distributions: final, peer reviewed version
Today sees the publication on bioRxiv of a revised version of our preprint outlining “A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions.” Our proposal, explained in more detail in this earlier post, encourages publishers to mitigate the distorting effects … Continue reading
ICYMI No.7: a day in the life of a naked scientist
In case you missed it last week, I had a segment in the Naked Scientist’s 15th anniversary radio show. Or rather, three segments, based on a day-in-the-life-of-a-scientist piece that I wrote a few months back on the Guardian, that were … Continue reading
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