Sanli
5 May 2012
Tags: grants, MMORPG, peer-review
Posted in Ethics, politics, Web 2.0
Much more has been said about the failure of current grant system than that has actually changed. My favorite opinion piece is this one by Peter A. Lawrence. The single-sentence abstract says it all: “The granting system turns young scientists into bureaucrats and then betrays them.” There are a couple of suggestions for improving the funding distribution in that article but the title of a comment by Markus Noll says enough about why nothing is changing: “Scientists in power will never change their system unless forced.”
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Ad Lagendijk
30 March 2012
Tags: high impact, Impact factor, Nature, Science Magazine, social networking
Posted in Conferences, Ethics, Getting published, politics
Summary
In this post the ever increasing socializing with journal editors at conferences is critically discussed. Suggestions are put forward to make the social role of junior scientists more prominent at conferences and preventing the successful scientists from taking it all.
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Social dimension
My relatives think that scientists work in a lab, discover something, write a paper about it and get famous.
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Mirsumon
21 February 2012
Tags: career, competition, originality, papers, publications, Scientific community
Posted in applied research, Ethics, Getting published, PhD life, Research and education
I am at the last year of my PhD. I started working on a topic which was quite new in the sci community. I also published about 5 articles on that topic and 4 other articles in related topics. Sometimes i had too much pressure to publish my works as it normally happens in a place where you have to maintain a good balance between productivity and novelty of your work (i guess). However, sometimes i feel that i lose my interest to improve my experimental data and losing freedom of thinking about the creativity of the whole work. Sometimes, i also feel that i am running too fast that i dont even care about the trees on the street. Where is the freedom in PhD? How can we learn to be an independent researcher? Hope to have it after the PhD!!!
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