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May 30, 2008
Category: Conduct of Science
MsPhD has some interesting responses in the comments to my post from a few days ago addressing the issue of strategic planning of an experimental research program. Here are a few particular excerpts that I will address below the fold:...
Posted by PhysioProf at 7:20 AM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2008
Today's offering for the Reader interested in drug abuse issues is the Psychedelic Research blog. This appears to be a brand-spanking new effort with the first introductory post on May 27 which indicates: This is a blog to track research...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:04 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2008
Category: Peer Review
An editorial in Nature Neuroscience [h/t: writedit] describes an in-house study they undertook to compare citations to individual articles and reviews in Nature Neuroscience (February-December, 2005) with download statistics from our website. Downloads represented the total PDF page views for...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 9:11 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2008
Category: Careerism
PhysioProf's recent post on how to ensure a publication in a top ranked journal such as Cell, Nature or Science contained a couple of snobby, insulting comments that makes the steam come out of my ears. This comment for example...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2008
Category: Conduct of Science
I have recently noticed some fatalism among some of our junior colleagues--post-docs and recently independent PIs--concerning their prospects of completing "interesting" projects and getting them published in top journals, either field-specific or C/N/S-level. For example, Sciencewoman recently posted about her...
Posted by PhysioProf at 6:05 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 23, 2008
Category: Grantsmanship
Perusing the list of NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices for this week I find two notices of great interest. PureEdge and CCR registration are dead!...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 6:07 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Tribe of Science
Dr. Free-Ride! A huge and heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Dr. (soon to be) Associate Professor Janet D. Stemwedel who notes over at Adventures in Ethics and Science that San Jose State University has found her meritorious of the award of...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:32 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 22, 2008
Category: Day in the life of DrugMonkey
As Steinn recently noted, Uncertain Chad is really good at "lazy blog polls". However that was meant, a recent question is of unusual interest to scientists. Suppose that you had a choice between having your favorite candidate win the presidential...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 11:33 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 2008
Category: Careerism
ERV was recently musing on the fate of trainees following the death of a lab head (Principal Investigator; PI). As part of this she wondered about the fate of the grant funding: Who would take over his research? You cant...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 8:19 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 20, 2008
Category: Conduct of Science
I'm mired in an effort to respond to a recent post of drdrA's over at Blue Lab Coats on the deceptively simple issue of a manuscript rejection. This post is apparently a rich vein of blog fodder because PhysioProf already...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:55 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
