Small, useful things (links):
- "Scientific Community Debates Standard Definition of "Impact Factor""
- Melanie Nelson looks at building inclusive teams.
- Jyllian has suggestions for National Safety Stand Down on May 2.ab without bench
- Here's another case of peer reviewers helping themselves to text from other papers.
- And an image manipulation problem at JACS.
- Of course, John has a post about caramel rheology.
- Fascinating post by Mitch Antalek about recent Klapötke work.
- Chad's talking about explosives as well.
- Like reading about gravitational waves? Here's Slava Bernat.
- ...and Ash as well!
- A post with lots of good grad school advice at Colorblind Chemist.
- Best wishes to Stephen Davey in whatever is next.
- Neat post by Kat Day about the chemistry of statues.
Readers, an open invitation to all interested in writing a blog, a hobby that will bring you millions thousands hundreds tens of dollars joy and happiness. Send me a link to your post, and I'd be happy to put it up.
Have a great weekend!
Have a great weekend!
Oh man, that C&EN Onion article was well written. But as I was reading it, I realized it would be funny if I was a first or second year grad student or a BSD prof in their sixties and close to retirement, because all I could feel was sadness. Constant meetings with admins who left research a long time ago and who talk about impact factors, the importance of having a 'regular' output, about how it's bad to be perceived as non-ambitious, etc... really beat it out of you. Makes me want to stay home and watch TV instead of going to the lab. And I'm one of the people who is actually doing okay on metrics.
ReplyDelete