Archive for October, 2012
Economics and genetics meet in uneasy union
Friday, October 12th, 2012From EK:”
A very long paper discussing how genetic diversity of a population is related to economic development-
http://ideas.repec.org/p/bro/econwp/2010-7.html
…. featured in as Science Editor’s choice !!
[but]… enough people were disturbed by it
so they wrote up a comment in Nature…”
http://www.nature.com/news/economics-and-genetics-meet-in-uneasy-union-1.11565
authorship issues
Friday, October 12th, 2012http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7417-591a
Particularly relevant to genomics and refers to authorship on the main ENCODE paper
QT:”
Biagioli agrees that delineating each person’s contribution should help, but he says that the descriptions are frequently too brief. As an example, he cites the study published this month in Nature by the ENCODE Project Consortium [the ENCODE “main paper”] . It ascribes generic tasks such as “data analysis”, “writing” or “scientific management” to large sets of authors, making it impossible to tell, for example, who analysed which data.
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Flows of Research Manuscripts Among Scientific Journals Reveal Hidden Submission Patterns
Friday, October 12th, 2012TIME Magazine: Genetic Science: How Far Do We Go? – Jan. 17, 1994
Friday, October 12th, 2012http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19940117,00.html
Interesting how much has changed… & remained the same
Internet Infringement: Right-Click Conflicts | Shutterbug
Friday, October 12th, 2012http://www.shutterbug.com/content/internet-infringement-right-click-conflicts
practical guide to getting ripped off on the internet