Wednesday, January 25, 2012

A man for our season

Post muito interessante, retirado do blog do Sean Eddy.
Traz uma coleção de artigos que nos faz refletir sobre a realidade da comunidade científica.
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A man for our season:

Peter Lawrence and Michael Locke wrote an essay that made an enormous impression on me (“A Man for Our Season”, Nature, 1997). For a long time a copy hung on the wall of the lab. I was reminded of it last week when I read a recent interview with Lawrence (“The Heart of Research is Sick”, Lab Times, 2011).

When it’s hard to reach me because I’m busy with my own research work; when I have to decline to travel to give seminars; when postdocs in my lab publish their own independent work without my name on their papers; when our papers go to open-access journals that do a good job of delivering substantive content regardless of that journal’s supposed “impact”; when I spend time on the details of a constructive peer review; when I help HHMI recruit and mentor younger scientists — and indeed when I moved to Janelia Farm, to be part of the idealistic culture that we want to build here — it’s principles much like Peter Lawrence’s that I’m aspiring to.


Real lives and white lies in the funding of scientific research

PLoS Biology, 2009

Retiring retirement

Nature, 2008

The mismeasurement of science

Current Biology, 2007

Men, women, and ghosts in science

PLoS Biology, 2006

The politics of publication

Nature, 2003

Rank injustice

Nature, 2002

Science or alchemy?

Nature Reviews Genetics, 2001

A man for our season

Nature, 1997

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