July 2008
15 posts
“Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but...”
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“For young researchers contemplating a career outside the mainstream, Bainbridge...”
– William Sims Bainbridge is a sociologist who doesn’t shy away from controversial topics.
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“When the National Security Council recommended the use of nuclear weapons at...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - We Should Still Like Ike - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
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more on nature’s own publishing model: So Nature has been claiming all along that it is not possible to successfully running an open-access, yet selective journal that only publishes a few articles. Well, now that the era of funder-mandated archiving has begun, what is Nature going to do ? Is it going to change its business model, or shut shop ? Or are we suddenly going to see how...
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nature and plos: Declan Butler’s most recent salvo in his long-standing debate with open-access advocates has raised a real ruckus in the blogosphere; good places to start are on Bora’s blog and Open Access News. Also see Butler 2003 and 2006 for earlier articles, with resultant discussions here and here. The drama led to a clarificatory statement from Timo Hannay, that was much better...
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utterly ridiculous spat: in tabloid headline style (“neuroscientist accused of going on date !!”), nature reports on a dispute over the interpretation of data between nikos logothetis at the MPI in tubingen and two of his former postdocs (amir shmuel and david leopold) now running independent labs at u.toronto and the NIMH. the article is written by alison abbott and entitled...
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the inscrutable japanese: not sure whether to laugh or cheer or mourn the demise of self-expression, but the japanese people and authorities are going after japanese tourists who participate in mass celebratory defacing of foreign monuments with a few “innocent” scrawls of their own….
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