Adventures in Ethics and Science

IGERT meeting: what do grown-up interdisciplinary scientists do for a living?

Category: Academia

One of the most interesting sessions at the NSF IGERT 2010 Project Meeting was a panel of men and women who participated in the IGERT program as students and are now working in a variety of different careers. The point...

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IGERT meeting: the Digital Science panel.

Category: Academia

As mentioned in an earlier post, I was recently part of a panel on Digital Science at the NSF IGERT 2010 Project Meeting in Washington, D.C. The meeting itself brought together PIs, trainees, and project coordinators who are involved in...

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IGERT meeting: some general thoughts.

Category: Academia

About three weeks ago, I was in Washington, D.C. for the NSF IGERT 2010 Project Meeting. I was invited to speak on a panel on Digital Science (with co-panelists Chris Impey, Moshe Pritzker, and Jean-Claude Bradley, who blogged about it),...

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Last-minute weekend plans.

Category: Women and science

It's true that I recently returned from a fairly geeky conference, but I just found out about one happening practically in my backyard. And, given that I don't yet have any papers to grade, I figured I should check it...

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#scio10 aftermath: collecting my tweets from the conference sessions.

Category: Blogospheric science

Last night I arrived home safely from ScienceOnline2010. As expected, the conference was tremendously engaging and useful, as well as being a rollicking good time -- so much so that the only blog post I managed to post while there...

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A conference paper I didn't see coming.

Category: Conferences

A philosopher talking about evidential relations and inferences in the context of the JFK assassination couldn't be a crackpot. Could he?

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On my way to ScienceOnline'09

Category: Conferences

Once again, I'm sitting in my favorite airport with free wifi, bound this time for Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, for ScienceOnline'09. The conference has grown to feature two days of official sessions, plus a third day of semi-official goings...

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Challenges of placebo-controlled trials.

Back in November, at the Philosophy of Science Association meeting in Pittsburgh, I heard a really interesting talk by Jeremy Howick of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University about the challenges of double-blind trials in medical research. I'm...

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Access rare books without being made to wear white cotton gloves.

It turns out that the session on electronic scholarship I mentioned didn't really get into the defining characteristics of electronic scholarship, nor how it might differ from "digital media". (Part of this had to do with trying to fit spiels...

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What I've learned so far at the PSA.

This is not an exhaustive account of my experiences at the PSA so far, but rather what's at the top of my Day-Quil-addled head:...

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