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Quick Hit: Representin’ at the Northern Voice Blogging Conference
I’m at the Northern Voice blogging conference today. I usually attend this conference as a personal blogger, but today I’m also going to be sitting on a panel of science bloggers, representing The Black Hole: The Naked Truth: Canadian Science … Continue reading
Posted in Science Communication
Tagged media, northernvoice, nv11, science and society, science communication
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CMAJ calls for “new mechanisms to ensure academic integrity”
A while back I posted a link to Retraction Watch, a website that reports on research papers being retracted (e.g., due to the science contained within them being fraudulent). Well, yesterday an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged academic integrity, Canada, ethics, Government, Peer Review, publishing
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Academic Couples
I was out for dinner the other day with a friend and colleague of mine who I hadn’t seen in awhile, catching up on the goings in each other’s lives. Two big things had happened in her life recently – … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs
Tagged dual-academic couples, Employment, Jobs, life choices, non-academic jobs, postacademic jobs
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Quick Hit: Retraction Watch
This site was recently brought to my attention: http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/ It’s a site that reports on research papers being retracted (e.g., due to the science contained within them being fraudulent). I thought that in light of our discussions on here about … Continue reading
Quick Hit: Dissertation Haiku
This blog posting is something a little different than our usual blog fare here on The Black Hole, but something I thought might be of interest to our readers: a chance to publish your dissertation – in haiku form! A … Continue reading
Posted in Science Communication
Tagged dissertation, haiku, PhD, science blogs, science communication
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Open Source U?
The course that I currently teach at a local college is being set up as open source. It draws on material that is available through open sources, uses an open source textbook, and will be freely available as open source … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training
Tagged education, London School of Business and Finance, MBA, open source
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Women and the MBA Session
About a year ago, I blogged at the CIHR Science to Business program – a funding mechanism “designed to encourage individuals with PhDs in a health related field to pursue an MBA.” Well, being one of those people with a … Continue reading
“Questionable” Projects: Does the public have the answer?
The other day, this article from Live Science was brought to our attention: “Republicans Call for Public Scrutiny of NSF grants” http://www.livescience.com/culture/etc/101201-republicans-call-for-public-scrutiny-nsf.html From the article: Republican Majority Leader-Elect Eric Cantor (R-VA) is asking citizens to choose their own cuts to … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Policy
Tagged funding, Government, Peer Review, Policy, research funding, science and society
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Student Loans
Student loans. They are sort of the dirty little secret among grad students. Not something people generally like to talk about, because having student loans means you weren’t good enough to have won the big scholarships that the other grad … Continue reading
Where Do You Find Nonacademic Job Postings?
A friend of mine who is close to finishing her PhD and is trying to figure out what she wants to do next (“To postdoc or not to postdoc….that is the question ”) emailed me recently looking for advice on where … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs
Tagged Employment, job postings, non-academic jobs, nonacademic jobs, postacademic jobs
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