Tag Archives: Research

The Ivory Tower

Posted on March 7, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

This is a post I’ve been thinking about for a while, and my thoughts are still not fully fleshed out, but I’ll have a go at writing it anyway. You sometimes encounter a suggestion that academics regard themselves as living … Continue reading →

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Doing science

Posted on February 8, 2017 by ...and Then There's Physics

This whole furore about Karl et al. has got me thinking more about how we actually conduct science/research. There is, I think, a perception that doing science/research involves following a fairly well defined set of procedures about which there should … Continue reading →

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Excellence!

Posted on December 19, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

Unless you’re a UK-based academic, you may not know that yesterday was an important day in UK academia; it was the release of the results from the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. This is an assessment of most of … Continue reading →

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Elements of truth

Posted on January 21, 2014 by ...and Then There's Physics

Stoat’s recent post about peer review, reminded me that there was something related that I had been considering writing about. There appears to be many climate “skeptics” (deniers some would call them) who regularly make claims about peer review being … Continue reading →

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Value-free science?

Posted on November 8, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

Reiner Grundmann has a new post on Die Klimazwiebel discussing whether or not philosophy can enlighten climate science. Reiner also has an earlier post about the same topic. As far as I can tell, the basic argument seems to be … Continue reading →

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Watt about the con-men?

Posted on April 30, 2013 by ...and Then There's Physics

There is a recent Watts Up With That (WUWT) post called how a scientist becomes a con-man. This was about a Dutch psychologist called Diederik Stapel who carried out research in the general area of sociology. Some of his work … Continue reading →

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