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		<title>Google Scholar &#8220;My Citations&#8221; &#8211; Useful tool or the height of narcissism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I first read about it on the Piece of Mind blog by UBC Professor Nassif Ghoussoub, I have been trying to figure out whether or not Google&#8217;s new &#8220;My citations&#8221; is a useful tool for researchers.  Essentially, this tool &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2012/01/08/google-scholar-my-citations-useful-tool-or-the-height-of-narcissism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying good scientists and keeping them honest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 22:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a February 2011 interview with Lab Times, Cambridge scientist Peter Lawrence1 reflects on his own career and complains that &#8220;the heart of research is sick&#8221; as he charts the changes in the way in which science is pursued.  Briefly, &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2011/05/22/identifying-good-scientists-and-keeping-them-honest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Metrics for Assessing Scientists: Let&#8217;s Accessorize</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick Hit: Paul Krzyzanowski, another post doctoral fellow who writes for the Stem Cell Network blog just posted The underused academic in which he discusses funding levels of Canadian postdoctoral fellows and the balance of funding International imports vs. Canadian &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2011/02/07/new-metrics-for-assessing-scientists-lets-accessorize/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quarterly Summary: “CAP”ital Action and Effective Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This quarter has been a very active one for the Black Hole site, marked most notably by a tripling of site traffic in the month of March. Admittedly, most of this increased traffic was due to Budget 2010 and the &#8230; <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/04/01/quarterly-summary-capital-action-and-effective-communication/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quarterly Summary – Trying to make sense of it all</title>
		<link>http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2009/12/30/quarterly-summary-trying-to-make-sense-of-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, in the wake of a very busy December, I realize that we only registered two blog entries this month - a noticeable drop from November’s eleven.  But this is the realistic way forward if we want to tackle these issues with the time and energy they deserve, as these “issues affecting trainees” underpin many of the important decisions that are made in an academic career and give decision makers a sense of what trainees are thinking.  It’s a lot of information though and in recognition of everyone else being busy as well, I thought a quarterly summary of highlights would be a good idea. <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2009/12/30/quarterly-summary-trying-to-make-sense-of-it-all/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Science is like Baking:  The Rise of the Cookie Cutter PhD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In medical science, many of the protocols we use for bench work feel like recipes.  To nobody’s surprise, it is often compared to baking – add component X, spin, add component Y, mix, “cook” in a gel, etc, etc – and I say fair enough.  Many will argue, however, that such protocols are not the bread and butter of an academic scientist’s career which certainly relies on designing the experiments to answer novel questions about the particular system or situation being studied and interpreting an often confused picture to help make sense of that system.  

This blog entry contends that we are putting less emphasis on the latter and more on the former and our nation is going to pay a hefty price if we don’t turn the boat around – the PhD is becoming less focused on learning how to think, and more focused on learning how to do.  This is a trend that I am labelling the rise of the cookie cutter PhD.
 <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2009/11/17/science-is-like-baking-the-rise-of-the-cookie-cutter-phd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Say NO to the Second Post Doc!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an undergraduate and doctorate, medical science trainees need to undertake post doctoral training before being granted a faculty position.  After this round of training, however, many are going on to a second and even a third round of "post-doc'ing" ...  this blog entry asks why we do this and encourages science trainees to stop after the first PDF and do a major evaluation...   <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2009/11/15/say-no-to-the-second-post-doc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peer Review and Publishing – the best of the worst?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peer Review and Publishing – the best of the worst?
A look at the peer review system and the idea that anonymity of reviewers is an idea of the past. <a href="http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2009/11/13/peer-review-and-publishing-%e2%80%93-the-best-of-the-worst/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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