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An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
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- Why Are Veins Blue? (17 Apr 08)
- Metric System (Apparently) a Plot by Liberal Communist Anti-American Immigrants (13 Oct 07)
- Bush Administration Muzzled Surgeon General (11 Jul 07)
- A Sun Ray a Day.... (19 Jun 07)
- Study Finds Alcohol and Tobacco More Harmful than Marijuana, LSD, or Ecstasy (23 Mar 07)
- A Shocking Decrease in Funding of NIH Grants (12 Sep 06)
- Psychedelic Psilocybin Psychology (14 Jul 06)
- Cloning - Who Cares? (10 Jul 06)
- An Inconvenient AP Story for Republicans (28 Jun 06)
- Organic People Chemistry (16 Jun 06)
- Oxford Scientists Bite Back at Animal Rights Activists (26 Feb 06)
- NASA Science Censor Resigns (08 Feb 06)
- George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A&M University (06 Feb 06)
- Caught in the Line of Fire: Animal Rights Activists Take Over Oxford (15 Jan 06)
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- WCCO meteorologist: Global warming 'extremism' uses 'squishy science' - Minneapolis Star Tribune
- In the UK, stem cell research affirms humans and plants aren't equal - Globe and Mail
- March of the Polar Bears - Washington Post
- Is global warming too hot for the weather report? - Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Lorne Gunter on global warming: More proof that the science is far ... - National Post
- GWAC: Climate scientist sounds global warming alarm - Lexington Minuteman
- The politics of numbers - Economist
- Political science on Beacon Hill - Boston Globe
- Burlington textile exec testifying before Congress The Business ... - Bizjournals.com
- Farm bill stalled - MSU State News
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peer review:
Do You Blog About Peer-Reviewed Research?
If so, you'll be interested in today's announcement from BPR3 (Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting): We're pleased to announce that BPR3's Blogging on Peer Reviewed Research icons are now ready to go! Anyone can use these icons to show when...Posted on October 29, 2007 9:45 AM • 4 Comments •
General Thoughts on the NIH
Regarding grant success rates, budget constraints, the Roadmap, biodefense, young investigators, and open accessPosted on July 20, 2007 7:29 AM • 4 Comments •
Ah, So That's How They Did It!
The first edition of the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) will be released at 11:00 pm EST tonight.Posted on November 30, 2006 5:22 AM • 2 Comments •
Cell Jumps on the Interactive Bandwagon
Nature started it with its recently begun open peer review trial, and PLoS got on board with its own announcement of a new interactive journal, PLoS ONE. Now, The Daily Transcript reports that Cell has also joined the latest trend...Posted on June 21, 2006 6:30 PM • 2 Comments •
PLoS Takes On Science and Nature... and Blogs All About It!
Through its recently announced interdisciplinary journal PLoS ONE, the Public Library of Science appears poised to compete directly with the two leading scientific journals, Science and Nature. Now comes news that PLoS has started a series of blogs to promote this endeavor.Posted on June 14, 2006 7:20 PM • 2 Comments •
Nature Lets It All Hang Out Through Open Peer Review
One of the fundamental principles of modern science, as well as other academic pursuits, is peer review. However, it's not a perfect system, and today's issue of Nature announced its own experiment in science--or democracy--by opening up the peer review process to all interested in participating and giving authors of submitting their papers to an open and public peer review process to take place online.Posted on June 8, 2006 10:51 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
