Remembering Lee Dirks
A tragic accident has taken Lee Dirks and his wife. A remembrance.
A tragic accident has taken Lee Dirks and his wife. A remembrance.
After a summer full of interesting posts and time to think, a bit of reflection seems in order as we head into Fall.
The open nature of email addresses on journal sites may be feeding the email harvesting machine for academic emails. Worse, it may also be exposing these for potentially fraudulent activity.
Books and book chapters have a competitive disadvantage in citations, but it’s not accessibility that makes the difference — there are more reasons, and more changes needed.
A review of William Dean Howells’ 1890 novel, “A Hazard of New Fortunes,” which is about finding new business models for media businesses. The book describes an economic landscape that is eerily similar to our own.
A new high-speed camera has the potential to reveal the world of light in completely novel ways. This video is amazing from start to finish.
eLife is beginning to accept papers, but is it proper for them to promote papers they’ve accepted without having published the final versions? What will their approach be to media embargoes?
Facebook’s IPO has disappointed many, but to think that it presages a complete meltdown of the online ad market is a bit of an overstatement.
A new paper finds unexpected disturbances around p-value ranges approaching 0.05. Is there something going on beyond mere science?
Moving from the West Coast to the East prompts some thoughts on personal libraries and e-books, as it no longer makes economic sense to carry a lifetime of books around with us. But maybe economic sense isn’t the only sense bibliophiles possess . . .
Publishers provide editors who do much more than proofread or copyedit. They provide editors who support authors and editors — and readers. Here’s an interview that sheds some important light.
A new initiative seeks to solve the reproducibility problem in science, but instead seems to be creating more of a drag on research funds, ignoring the incentives of scientists, and raising barriers to its very utilization.
The potential higher education funding bubble may be more likely to burst, with the LIBOR scandal revealing another weakness in the system, trends in admissions and discounting showing the effects of the recession, and American politics locked up in partisan nonsense.
The recent proliferation of -omics words amuses some, annoys others, and perhaps signals an effort at integrating new areas.
What once appeared to be a lopsided ruling has, in its final form, turned into something much more definitive.