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16 Jan 09

Geophysicists accused of breach of publishing ethics : Nature News

  • This case exposes a general problem in French science: Inbreed, centralism, lack of transparency and disregard for internationalism. The structure of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, one of the largest research institutions in the world) and other French Research institutions supports a national approach to science, as e.g. expressed by the ridiculous former obligation to lecture in French, where and when ever possible, even on international meetings. It is not by coincidence that until today French scientists who spend some time in foreign scientific institutions, are still regarded at home as second class, obviously not able to immediately conquer one of the life time posts in one of the huge and often little productive French science institutes. Equally ludicrous is the requirement of an additional evaluation and qualification when foreigners apply for a professorships or other higher ranked post in French research. The French qualification for a professorship at universities and, separately, at museums like the Muse National de Histoire Naturelle in Paris (Qualification aux fonctions de professeur, du Ministère de la Jeunesse, de l?Education Nationale et de la Recherche de France), necessitates a complicated and bureaucratic evaluation process, even if the candidate is an internationally established scientist with a long professorship career at many foreign institutions.
08 Jul 08

Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

  • Perhaps understanding and answers are overrated. "The problem with computers," Pablo Picasso is rumored to have said, "is that they only give you answers."  These huge data-driven correlative systems will give us lots of answers -- good answers -- but that is all they will give us. That's what the OneComputer does --  gives us good answers. In the coming world of cloud computing perfectly good answers will become a commodity. The real value of the rest of science then becomes asking good questions.
21 Jun 08

Connotea: free online reference management for clinicians and scientists

  • Free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists
03 Dec 07

Main Page - OpenWetWare

  • OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. Learn more about us here.
    If you would like edit access, would be interested in helping out, or want your lab website hosted on OpenWetWare, please join us.

myExperiment - index

  • myExperiment makes it really easy to find, use and share scientific workflows and
    other research objects, and to build communities.

No tenure for Technorati: Science and the Social Web - john wilbanks' blog - john wilbanks' blog on Nature Network

  • There’s three barriers to Social Web extracting the wisdom in sciences as it does elsewhere.
  • The first is the lack of a crowd – not only is the total number of scientists in any one field pretty low in terms of internet numbers, but it’s even lower in reality with specialization.
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