How to Retard Scientific Progress
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By , on July 12th, 2010 9 comments   Ramblings   , , , , , , , ,  

I found a great quote and analogy from an essay published in Current Biology by Peter Lawrence titled The Mismeasurement of Science. This essay takes a look at how science is measured and examines the use of impact factors and other metrics that measure scientific progress for individual scientists, academic departments and institutions. The quote . . . → Read More: How to Retard Scientific Progress

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LiveBlogging Science Online ’09: Open Access
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By , on January 20th, 2009 3 comments   Conferences, Open Access   , , , ,  

Note: This was liveblogged at the time, but the wifi crashed under the weight of 200 simultaneous livebloggers. ——————————————————————————————————— As many readers know, we are staunch proponents of open access. Craig being an academic editor at PLoS ONE and myself writing extensively on the benefits of open access, especially to taxonomy. Open Access is not . . . → Read More: LiveBlogging Science Online ’09: Open Access

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