Showing posts with label Scientific hoop-jumping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scientific hoop-jumping. Show all posts
Monday, December 16, 2019

How the Grinch ruined reviewing

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  Everyone who has ever published scientific results knows about the dread Reviewer Two: The reviewer who is unduly harsh, or just doesn’...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Mansplainer

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So I bumped into Nelly Furtado the other day, and of course I immediately started to explain to her all about Atlantic hotspots and a co...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Nomination language note

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This is a brief update to last week’s post on nominating for society prizes.   There has been some discussion on twitter about biased l...
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Saturday, February 03, 2018

Nominating for society prizes

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One of the great things about being a geochronologist is that you can delve back in time to when unfinished blog posts were abandoned, ...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Be the comet

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It has been a bad month for flashbacks for victims of sexual harassment in Academia. First came the horrific stories of campus harassme...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Playing with science metrics

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There are numerous critiques, both online and in the literature (pdf), of the overused H-index and journal impact factor (IF) metri...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Hard rock men and soft rock girls

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Readers with short attention spans who waste too much time on social media may have noticed that Brian Romans has been complaining over on...
Monday, June 15, 2015

The Tim Hunt sleight of hand

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The internet has been all atwitter about the blatantly sexist remarks made by Nobel laureate Tim Hunt earlier this week, at a women in scie...