2013-04-27 21:34
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, a staff writer at Science magazine, has written an elegant article in the New York Times about the Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel. The scientific miscon… Read More
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2013-03-10 17:39
Peer review is central to science. But the system is functioning far from perfectly. One issue is that it is difficult to find good reviewers. This was already discussed five years ago on th… Read More
2013-02-09 08:59
The scientific community keeps on finding new ways to facilitate to judge scientists. The old-fashioned way of reading her papers, listening to her talks, interviewing her for more th… Read More
2012-10-07 19:57
A problem I often encounter is deciding who to invite as co-authors. On one hand, you want to show appreciation to the people that helped you in the process of obtaining your results. On the… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Your own laptop When you give a presentation with slides you will either use your own notebook or some computer supplied by the organizers of the meeting. In the latter case there are severa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Progress In a post two years ago I discussed how difficult it was to find good tools for editing scientific texts by multiple authors simultaneously. As there is a great demand for thi… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
As a scientist reading a substantial amount of papers I regularly read articles with inadequate referencing. Obviously some papers contain too many self-citations, however my main concern is… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Communicating in a language that is not your mother tongue is a handicap. For Germans and Dutch people speaking and writing acceptable English can be achieved after a few years of school. Fo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I have a dislike of Microsoft. That feeling is based on over twenty years of experience with working with their operating systems, their office applications and their compilers. But recently… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Science is about competition, about collaboration and about communication, to mention a few keywords dominating the life of a scientist. In this post I will discuss a matter relating to coll… Read More
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