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Libel law forcing Nature to abandon core scientific principles?
This story would be almost comical in a Monty-Python sort of way, if it wasn't for a fairly serious backdrop.


In this thread on Nature Networks on science journalism, I left the following comment ...[more]
Nature   UK libel-law   reproducibility   
Posted on Wednesday 08 July 2009 - 03:08:53

Measuring editors' performance objectively
Editors of schorarly, peer-reviewed journals often claim that somehow their choosiness is the most important verdict on the quality of a scientific manuscript. Points in case are Nature Neuroscience's peer-review policy,...[more]
editors   Nature   science publishing   open access   science politics   peer-review   
Posted on Saturday 05 July 2008 - 06:42:51

EvolutionGems@Nature
Nature magazine has a nice little collection of evolution gems up on their website, freely accessible without subscription. What's it all about? Read yourself (PDF):...[more]
evolution   Nature   
Posted on Thursday 01 January 2009 - 12:26:18

Nature: PLoS a threatening success
Coturnix alerts me to the fact that I'm late for a party yet again (as usual). Apparently, Nature is feeling the PLoS competition breathing down its neck. This can be seen in a Nature news article entitled "...[more]
PLoS   PLoS One   Nature   science publishing   open access   science politics   peer-review   butler   
Posted on Friday 04 July 2008 - 08:12:32

The other 97.8%: why is the Nature Publishing Group uncritically hyping the ERC?
In April Nature Genetics poured heaps of praise on a granting body that that awards grants only to 2.2% of all applicants. Let's recap: In 2007, there were about 9200 young scientists in Europe anxiously waiting for an o...[more]
ERC   starting grant   Nature   Nature Genetics   science politics   science funding   
Posted on Tuesday 12 August 2008 - 13:18:10

The impact of decimals
Just yesterday I explained to the auditorium at the Robert Koch-Institut, what is wrong with scholarly publishing today. This morning, catching up with reading, I found this nice little letter to the editor of Nature:...[more]
impact factor   decimals   nature   publishing   
Posted on Friday 09 October 2009 - 02:37:50

...and now for some David Attenborough on Darwin
Straight from Nature's YouTube channel, David Attenborough's interview on evolution:

...[more]
Attenborough   evolution   Darwin   Nature   
Posted on Monday 02 February 2009 - 01:22:51

Scientific progress quantified
Scientists measure. Scientists count. Scientists quantify. It's what they do. It's their job. Yet, as Einstein has pointed out long ago "...[more]
metrics   impact factor   science   nature   
Posted on Thursday 23 July 2009 - 05:26:19

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