Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Disposable and Stressful Research
Some interesting (not so) new links, The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time? Whining PhD students are nothing new, but there seem to be genuine problems with the system that produces research doctorates (the [...]
Dancing with data
The Economist has an interesting article about data visualization guru Hans Rosling. I will recommend everyone to read the whole story. In this article Dr Rosling points out that reluctance of big institutions to share the data, Most public data [...]
Infographic: Federal funding for basic science
Source LiveScience.com: Science R&D Spending in the Federal Budget. The economics and politics of science.
Peer review can be haphazard
An interesting feature in Nature Jobs shares tips on how to get your manuscripts noticed, accepted and published in a high profile journal, which also covers an interesting story of Mark Hauber and his student Matt Rayner, Mark Hauber sent [...]
Utopia Documents: Are PDFs Inevitable?
Utopia Documents is an enhanced PDF reader for scientific articles which enables reader to comment and explore article content inside the PDF document. Reader can interact with data referenced in articles, for instance playing with molecular structures, sequence alignment etc. It [...]
Working in uncharted scientific territory
Not much food for your reading today, just pointers to two interesting articles about how young scientists can shape their careers by following uncharted scientific territories. Bridging the Gap between Scientific Disciplines With math, if you do it once — [...]
Science and Scientists around the word ‘Newton’
Link communities around the word ‘Newton’ in a network of commonly associated English words. The ‘clever, wit’ community is correctly identified inside the ‘smart/intellect’ community. The words ‘Newton’ and ‘Gravity’ both belong to the ‘smart/intellect’, ‘weight’ and ‘apple’ communities, illustrating [...]
A typical PhD student is like the A-team so there is no plan B
If you are PhD student and you have not yet read the latest Miller Mccune cover story about degrading prospects of science as career and more specifically why having a PhD is not enough, then better do it now. A [...]
Non-PhD scientists are only hope if you want to battle floods of scientific data
This post may not surprise you if you already read the latest Nature editorial Do scientists really need a PhD? Before we talk about real issues, my first advice for aspiring PhD student – don’t read too much into anti-PhD [...]
Bio-ontologies for everyone with new Microsoft Word Add-in
A latest paper in BMC Bioinformatics describes a Microsoft Word Add-in for ontology recognition. Tool is freely available from Codeplex portal and as prerequisite you will need Microsoft Word 2007. This add-in enables the annotation of scientific documents based on [...]
