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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: Academia
Complicating the "two cultures" framing of research (and of what undergraduates should be learning in a research methods course).
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:03 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
When the evidence available to you is limited, it's probably better to draw the weak conclusion is supports rather than an overly strong one.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:57 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
When you're investigating charges that a scientist has seriously deviated from accepted practices for proposing, conducting, or reporting research, how do you establish what the accepted practices are? In the wake of ClimateGate, this was the task facing the Investigatory...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
The ethics investigation of Michael Mann turns on what counts as accepted practices for proposing, conducting, and reporting research. How does a committee establish what those accepted practices are?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Via Abi, I learn that Chemistry Blog has posted an interesting letter from a PI to his postdoc dated July 27, 1996. The letter, on official Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering letterhead, suggests that not all the stories...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:21 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
In the midst of the ongoing conversation about managing career and housework and who knows what else (happening here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and likely some places I've missed), ScientistMother wondered about one of the blogospheric voices...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:28 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Women and science
It's hard to speak of experiences making work-life balance decisions without someone feeling as if my "is" is intended to have the force of an "ought".
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:10 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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