June 2016 – The Eighteenth Elephant

June 29, 2016June 30, 2016

Course recap: Scientific Ethics (Spring 2016)

As I noted a few months ago, I co-taught this past term a graduate workshop on scientific ethics. It was an experiment — this is the first time we’ve offered a course like this in Physics at Oregon — and overall I think it was fairly successful. We had a series of lively discussions, consistent … Continue reading Course recap: Scientific Ethics (Spring 2016)

June 3, 2016

We’re Hip, We’re Trendy, We’re Pre-printers

Synopsis: (1) We’re posting preprints, for the reasons that you’re probably already familiar with. (2) I can entertain myself by making graphs and models, this time about article metrics. Preprints A few months ago we posted our first, and a few weeks ago our second, papers on bioRxiv, the fairly new preprint server for life … Continue reading We’re Hip, We’re Trendy, We’re Pre-printers

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