Virginia Woolf suggested that a woman would more likely become a successful writer if she only had an annual stipend of 500 pounds and a room of her own. Is that all it would take for women in academia to experience greater career success? Are there too few female full professors because not enough women researchers… Read More…
The science of teamwork
June 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
When PhD candidates at my university were recently asked if they were part of a research team, 6% of them answered “I don’t know.” But if they don’t know what they have, at least they know what they want. Our eager, young researchers want more collaboration, they want to be part of teams. They know isolation… Read More…
Arsenic gives aspiration: Twitter and Open Access Publishing
June 1, 2011 By 1 Comment
Passionate researchers want to figure it out. We want to understand nature, to identify what is and why it is that way. We want to know. And when we know something, we want to tell others about it. But the way scientists communicate is outdated. The system is broken. And our attempts to fix it are… Read More…
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