Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Downplay Diet's Role In Obesity Coca-Cola is funding a new nonprofit that blames obesity on lack of exercise, not on bad diets. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Anahad O'Connor of The New York Times about the group's controversial message.
Measuring research: what are the units of assessment? Today sees the publication of the report of an independent review of the contentious use of metrics — numerical indicators of performance — in the assessment of UK research and researchers. Can it plot a sensible course in a world increasingly obsessed with numbers?
Academic freedom sexism Shutting other people up when you’re powerful but frightened isn’t defending academic freedom. It’s repressing itTwo weeks ago, a Nobel Laureate made some ill-advised remarks in front of the World Conference of Science Journalism.Whether or not these were intended as a joke is irrelevant at this stage; the remarks were made, people got offended, and the rest is history. Sir Tim Hunt offered his resignation from an honorary position (with no responsibilities and no salary) at University College London, and it was accepted. Again, whether he was pushed or whether he jumped is today of little concern. Continue reading...
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Just one action for women in science In the wake of #Huntgate, here is a handy list of actions that individuals could commit to if they really want to see a change in the working environment coupled with a genuine move towards equality
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#Distractinglysexy Twitter campaign mocks Tim Hunt's sexist comments Female scientsts take to Twitter to respond to the Nobel laureate’s comments about women crying in labs Female scientists have taken to Twitter to mock Tim Hunt’s suggestion that science would benefit from “single-sex labs” by posting pictures of themselves at work using the #distractinglysexy hashtag.
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Science careers: doomed at the outset Has it become harder for graduate students to thrive, and are our best potential scientists giving up on academia?
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Will traditional science journals disappear? Has the traditional format of the science journal had its day? Dorothy Bishop outlines an alternative model, based on consensual communication
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Sneak attack on science by US Congress must stop Politicians with industry connections are trying to undermine US pollution laws using open access and conflict of interest arguments, warns Andrew Rosenberg
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Gender equality in science: a better future for everyone Late last year, a metastudy was published showing that, since 2000, things are improving for women working in most STEM-based fields, although there are some notable exceptions
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Citizen science is making scientists of everyone Citizen science is getting a lot of attention these days, which might make you think it is a new social phenomenon. But in fact, nothing is further from the truth: citizen science has been around much longer than any of us.
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Science 'squeezed out of primaries' Science is being squeezed out of English primary schools, with a third not providing the recommended two hours of teaching a week, research suggests.
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Royal Society celebrates 350 years of scientific publishing The first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was published 350 years ago today, and established a new model for publishing scientific, medical, academic and scholarly research. Continue reading...
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