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Category Archives: Universities
Some reflections on lecturing during a pandemic
I noticed, via Twitter, that a colleague had written an interesting post about survival strategies for lecturers [Edit: I hadn’t appreciated that this had been written pre-pandemic, but it is what largely motivated my post]. I had been thinking about … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, physicists, Science, Universities
Tagged Online teaching, pandemic, University teaching
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The crisis of free speech in higher education
I came across an interesting post by Mark Carrigan called the (coming) crisis of free speech in the digital university. The underlying issue is the suggestion that there is a crisis of free speech in higher education. This is related, … Continue reading
Big news in the climate blogosphere!
I guess the big news in the climate blogosphere is that Judith Curry has resigned (retired from?) her tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech. One reason appears to be that Judith is disenchanted with today’s academia. I actually have some … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Judith Curry, Research, Science, Universities
Tagged Honesty, Research integrity, Resigned, Retired, Scientific integrity, Tenured faculty
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Science wars, science crises, and wars on science?
There have been a number of recent articles (that I’ve noticed, at least) about science wars, the war on science, and a crisis in science. Judith Curry covered one, there was a comment about an unprecedented crisis in science in … Continue reading
A new exoplanet!
You might think I’m going to discuss the newly discovered explanet around Proxima Centauri, but – no – that’s pretty much been done to death. Instead, I thought I might tell you about our paper that was accepted on the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Research, Science, The scientific method, Universities
Tagged Exoplanets, HARPS-N, Kepler-20, Lars Buchhave, Pale red dot, Proxima Centauri
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On transparency
A while ago I wrote a post about a Nature commentary on Research Integrity and transparency, by Stephan Lewandowsky and Dorothy Bishop. Warren Pearce and colleagues wrote a brief response and have since expanded on this in a blog post. … Continue reading
A little surprised it took this long
After writing about the Terence Mills affair I popped across to Bishop Hill to point out that Mill’s ideas were mostly nonsense. This then lead to a rather lengthy exchange about me posting comments during working hours (I think it … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Science, Universities
Tagged Academics, Bishop-Hill, Public Sector, Public servant, universities
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Transparency
My previous post on research integrity was motivated by Stephan Lewandowsky and Dorothy Bishop’s article on transparency in science. This appears to have ended up being a rather more controversial topic than I was expecting, so I thought I would … Continue reading
Posted in ClimateBall, Science, Universities
Tagged Dorothy Bishop, Open data, Scientific method, Scientific process, Stephan Lewandowsky, Transparency
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Research Integrity
Stephan Lewandoesky and Dorothy Bishop (whose blog I used to read quite a lot, but haven’t for a while) have published a comment in Nature about Research Integrity, arguing that we shouldn’t let transparency damage science. It’s a complex issue, … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, Science, Universities
Tagged Dorothy Bishop, Research integrity, Scientific method, Stephan Lewandowsky
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The Avoidance of the Intellectual
I came across a quote that I found quite compelling, and so thought I would also post it here. I first saw it on this site, which got it from here, but I think it’s actually out of this book. … Continue reading
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