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Category Archives: ICYMI
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
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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
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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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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ICYMI No. 6: What is the meaning of Brexit?
Today EMBO Reports has published my commentary on the implications for scientific research of Britain’s recent decision to leave the EU. It’s free to read. The piece is trying to be more analytical than the more personal response that I posted at … Continue reading
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ICYMI No. 5: Asking universities to be open about research assessment
I first wrote about the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) when it was launched in May 2013. DORA is a simple statement asking the different players in the business of academic research to free themselves from the damaging … Continue reading
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ICYMI No. 4: Books to read before university
This week’s Times Higher Education has a nice cover feature listing books recommended by various scholars to students preparing for university. More particularly, as the author of the piece, Matthew Reisz, explained to me in an email, “We are asking … Continue reading
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ICYMI No. 3: Academic publishing on the radio
This is rather self-serving, even by my standards, but I made a plan with these “In Case You Missed It” posts and I’m sticking to it. I have been on the radio a couple of times in the past month … Continue reading
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ICYMI No. 2: Time for positive action on negative results
Today I had a short opinion piece in Chemical and Engineering News on publishing negative results, a topic that I covered about this time last year in the Guardian on the occasion of the publication my lab’s first paper on an … Continue reading
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ICYMI No.1: Preprints for biologists
Since I have developed a habit of writing elsewhere, which necessarily takes time and words away from the blog here at Reciprocal Space, I thought I would try to make amends by developing the habit of linking to the pieces … Continue reading
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