Do you want people to discuss your published work?
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Or does it depend on what they have to say about it, and where?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:12 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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Objectivity, conflicts of interest, and book reviews.
Category: Communication
Let's say you're a book review editor for a large circulation science periodical. You receive books from publishers and you look for scientists with the relevant expertise to write reviews that really engage the content of the books they are...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:45 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ask Dr. Free-Ride: True love waits (until the end of the semester).
Category: Academia
Dan Savage knows a lot, but when was the last time he thought about the ethical challenges of power gradients in educational and training environments?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:04 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What to do when your coauthor doesn't return your calls.
Category: Communication
You never call, you never write. Can you please sign off on the manuscript so we can finally submit it?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:56 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ClimateGate, the Michael Mann inquiry, and accepted scientific practices.
Category: Academia
Discuss the question of what counts (or should count) as accepted scientific practices without the annoying background noise of climate change denial.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:37 PM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the wake of ClimateGate: findings of the misconduct inquiry against Michael Mann.
Category: Academia
Penn State's inquiry committee reports on allegations against Michael Mann, laying the ground for an investigation that may have broad implications for the practice of science in academia.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:53 PM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
#scio10 aftermath: some thoughts on "Talking Trash: Online Outreach from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch".
Category: Biology
Here are some of the thoughts and questions that stayed with me from this session. (Here are my tweets from the session and the session's wiki page.) Among other things, this panel took up the article panelist Lindsey Hoshaw wrote...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
#scio10 aftermath: some thoughts on "Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web".
Category: Communication
Here are some of the thoughts and questions that stayed with me from this session. (Here are my tweets from the session and the session's wiki page.) The panelists made a point of stepping away from the scientists vs. bloggers...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:04 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
#scio10 aftermath: my tweets from "Getting the Science Right: The importance of fact checking mainstream science publications -- an underappreciated and essential art -- and the role scientists can and should (but often don't) play in it."
Category: Blogospheric science
Session description: Much of the science that goes out to the general public through books, newspapers, blogs and many other sources is not professionally fact checked. As a result, much of the public's understanding of science is based on factual...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:29 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
#scio10 aftermath: my tweets from "An Open History of Science".
Category: Blogospheric science
Session description: We will be talking about how the history of science and the history of the open-access movement have intersected. Steven Johnson touches on this theme in his latest book, The Invention of Air, in that 18th century...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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