Awesome article about not following up on an academic career.
Math and biostats are the shortest. History is the longest. Nobody is suprised.
"Two recent articles call for an openness revolution in science: one on GigaOM and the other in the Wall Street Journal. But they’ve got it all wrong. These folks are missing that the process of scientific discovery is not, at its core, an open process. It only becomes an open process at the point of publication."
Interesting model. I think I like how they're doing this. That said, I'm still not quite sure what they are doing.
Extraordinarily over-detailed description of how to get cited a lot.
Higher proportion of faculty are women. Higher proportion of PhDs are women. A lower proportion of BS degrees are women. And there are many fewer BS degrees in general.
The last part of this article is crap. Open Access already has a standard license and it's BY-SA. Suggesting BY-NC-ND is regressive. Academics have strong standards already against derivative works. The only market for academic publications is a bizarre artificial one that, honestly, both scholars are being exploited by. Neither NC nor ND is solving real problems. If we're going to suggest standardization, lets have it be on what we really want as opposed to what we might be able to live with.
"The Data Privacy Lab is dedicated to creating technologies and related policies with provable guarantees of privacy protection while allowing society to collect and share private (or sensitive) information for many worthy purposes. We do this by partnering with institutions, agencies, and corporations facing real-world privacy concerns."
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Ouch. This is a bad book review: "The empirical information he provides is perfunctory at best. His command of Marxism seems limited. His historical reach extends to his own earlier works. His vast theoretical apparatus is jimmy-rigged and empty. The graphs are inane, the writing atrocious. To call this book dull as dish water maligns dish water."
Includes both funded and unfunded proposals. I like the idea of keeping this online.
This, more than anything else, makes me want to reconsider my academic trajectory.
Check out the Reducing Inequality post which were recently featured on Crooked Timber. Recommended reading.
Yes, the internet is full of idiots.
Oliver is in my cohort at MIT! Congrats on the profile!
