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• Priorities

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 127
  This may well be a long-ish and slightly pedantic blog post, a bit different from the usual cheap laugh around here. Get some paper and pencil, draft a friend or three and open a bottle of wine. I had decided to shut up about Climate Change while COP-15 was on, and let the negotiators do the talking. However, a ...
  2 days ago

• British science budget cut by £600 million – but why?

  
  Just A Theory — Authority: 120
  Earlier today Alistair Darling announced Labour’s pre-Budget report. While most outlets have focused on increases in National Insurance and a tax on bankers bonuses, New Scientist point out that £600 million will be cut from higher education and science and research budgets. I’m absolutely amazed that Labour ...
  2 days ago

• Quantifying Research Quality using Article Level Metrics

  
  nOnoscience — Authority: 109
  Quantifying research quality is a buzz-activity in academia for the last two decades. The irony is lost in the paper work. For reasons best left out in this essay, this activity has come to stay in our academics. One such quantifying-quality measure (QQM) evolved recently is the Impact Factor (IF) of journals [1] that ...
  6 days ago

• The controversy’s dilemma . . .

  
  On Research... — Authority: 103
  The real problem looming behind the so-called “climategate” — the email hacking incident involving scientists from one of the world’s great research centers — is not that there is some previously undetected conspiracy among scientists.  Instead, this is just the latest in a long line of instances where the ...
  1 week ago

• Deconstructing Carbon Emissions

  
  REALscience — Authority: 459
  Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to be hearing a lot about carbon emissions–the gas released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and a whole host of other human activities. While the catch-all is called “carbon emissions” they aren’t confined to carbon dioxide gas. During the ...
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• In the bullseye . . .

  
  On Research... — Authority: 103
  The call came mid-morning, the day after Thanksgiving, and changed my attitude for the rest of the holiday weekend.  A friend and colleague had called from Washington to alert me that I was one of four people highlighted on an aggressive animal rights website.She suggested I take appropriate action.What is the ...
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• R&D spending

  
  Thoughts About K4D — Authority: 134
  Source: The Economist"Worldwide R&D investment increased by 6.9% in 2008, having grown by 9% in 2007."Lets compare these figures with those of some developing nations, based on a recent UNESCO Institute for Statistics survey:Brazil in 2006 was estimated to spend $17.4 billion, more than Toyota and Microsoft ...
  2 weeks ago

• Copenhagen Diagnosis Reveals Dire Climate Future

  
  REALscience — Authority: 459
  just as world leaders are getting ready to head to Denmark for a big climate negotiations conference that will determine the treaty to follow the Kyoto Protocol, a new scientific assessment is painting a dark picture of the future, based on recent climate science. Though not an official report of the United Nations ...
  2 weeks ago

• Decentralizing expert advice to inform federal science policy.

  
  Science Cheerleader — Authority: 128
  Exciting week! Score ONE for our ongoing efforts to help Congress get the information it needs to form sound science policy! The American Association for the Advancement of Science announced a venture, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, called Expert Labs. This new, non-profit independent lab, will “help policy ...
  2 weeks ago

• The next generation of innovators

  
  Uncommon Ground — Authority: 424
  From the White House blog (posted at 12:10pm): President Obama today helped launch a new campaign, " Educate to Innovate ,"designed  to energize and excite Americas students in science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).  It builds on thePresidents pledge that he would use his position to help ...
  2 weeks ago

• An AIBS webinar on science policy careers

  
  Uncommon Ground — Authority: 424
  Science students and early-career professionals often contact the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) seeking information about "alternative science careers." A growing number of individuals are interested in employment that allows them to apply their scientific skills and training to the resolution of ...
  2 weeks ago

• CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change Chemicals

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change . According to a new a study by Purdue University and NASA, the major chemicals most frequently cited as leading to climate change, namely carbon dioxide and methane , are actually outclassed in their warming ...
  3 weeks ago

• Like a Phoenix . . .

  
  On Research... — Authority: 103
  Warren Kornberg’s email was as unexpected as a snowfall in July, and equally as welcome.Years have passed since I’d seen him, decades perhaps.  Who can remember such things?  But Kornberg was of the “old guard,” the troop of masters who reigned in the wondrous heyday of science writing in the late 1970s and ...
  3 weeks ago

• No full-stops (periods) in good journalism, only commas…

  
  Moving Images, Moving People! — Authority: 121
  n any meeting, we can count on Indian journalist A S Panneerselvan to liven up the discussion. He didn’t let us down when a two dozen South Asians came together last weekend in New Delhi at a Symposium on Science, Environment and Media: Discussing Experiences in South Asia.“There are no full-stops in good ...
  3 weeks ago

• One Idea. One Thousand Dollars.

  
  Science Cheerleader — Authority: 128
  What is the most important thing the U.S. can do to improve global health over the next 15 years? A passionate, convincing answer to that question is all you need to be eligible for $1,000 and publication by the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health.  Submit your 500-800 word entries by November 20, 2009 , and ...
  4 weeks ago

• ‘Changing Climate…Changing People’ Hollywood Conference Videos

  
  The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE — Authority: 574
  Changing Climate…Changing People On November 18, 2008, Population Media Center conducted a daylong summit called Changing Climate…Changing People. The summit was held in partnership with the Writers Guild of America West, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Women in Film and the Environmental Media ...
  4 weeks ago

• Consilience: Innovation Enabler

  
  Reed's Ruminations: A Blog by Dan Reed — Authority: 91
  A few thoughts from my Communications of the ACM blog post . In this era of hyper-specialization, it is important to remember the combined power of generality and specialization, lest we render true the old joke that education teaches one more and more about less and less until finally one knows everything about ...
  4 weeks ago

• An update on the Coburn amendment

  
  Uncommon Ground — Authority: 424
  Last month I noted that Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced a resolution that would have eliminated funding for political science research at the National Science Foundation. I was delighted to discover this morning that ScienceInsider reported last week that the Coburn amendment was soundly defeated: 36 to 62. I am ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why fundamental scientific research has not caught on in India (Comment)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  By Narayanan SureshThis can happen only in India! Even as the nation continues to celebrate the success of Chandrayaan, the country’s first space mission to moon, this is not something one of the seniormost scientists in India, Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, is particularly thrilled about.Chandrayaan made many ...
  4 weeks ago

• Happy Carl Sagan Day!

  
  The Primate Diaries — Authority: 566
  His birthday is actually on Monday, but today marks the first annual event initiated by Broward College in Florida . In honor of the event, here is Carl Sagans final interview prior to his death. Amazing isnt it that the science vs. religion debate hasnt changed much after 15 years. But it must be the atheists ...
  4 weeks ago

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