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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Category: Blogospheric science
Today ScienceBlogs launched a new sponsored blog, Food Frontiers. The sponsor is PepsiCo. Here's the description of what the blog is going to be about from its inaugural post by Sb overlord Evan Lerner:...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:25 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
From what exactly is the First Amendment supposed to protect me when I include a piece of my writing in a dossier on the basis of which my job performance is to be evaluated?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:51 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
But will those calling for the boycott protect faculty who join it from impact factor fallout?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:42 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
I'll confess that I am not one who spends much time reading the reviews of books posted on the websites of online booksellers. By the time I'm within a click of those reviews, I pretty much know what I want....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:08 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
That post about how hard it is to clean up the scientific literature has spawned an interesting conversation in the comments. Perhaps predictably, the big points of contention seem to be how big a problem a few fraudulent papers in...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:33 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Tribe of Science
Science is supposed to be a project centered on building a body of reliable knowledge about the universe and how various pieces of it work. This means that the researchers contributing to this body of knowledge -- for example,...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:15 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
In a post last month, I noted that not all (maybe even not many) supporters of animal rights are violent extremists, and that Bruins for Animals is a group committed to the animal rights position that was happy to take...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:35 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Once again, I'm going to "get meta" on that recent paper on blogs as a channel of scientific communication I mentioned in my last post. Here, the larger question I'd like to consider is how peer review -- the back...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:04 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Or does it depend on what they have to say about it, and where?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:12 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Back in January, at ScienceOnline2010, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Dr. Isis, and I led a session called "Online Civility and Its (Muppethugging) Discontents". Shortly after the session, I posted my first thoughts on how it went and on the lessons I was...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:26 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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