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LeopoldS

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system | Science | Th... - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...er-higgs-boson-academic-system

phy physics publications

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  • LeopoldS on 08 Dec 13
     
    what an interesting personality ... very symathetic Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today's academic system because he would not be considered "productive" enough.

    The emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, who says he has never sent an email, browsed the internet or even made a mobile phone call, published fewer than 10 papers after his groundbreaking work, which identified the mechanism by which subatomic material acquires mass, was published in 1964.

    He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today's academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers. He said: "It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964."

    Speaking to the Guardian en route to Stockholm to receive the 2013 Nobel prize for science, Higgs, 84, said he would almost certainly have been sacked had he not been nominated for the Nobel in 1980.

    Edinburgh University's authorities then took the view, he later learned, that he "might get a Nobel prize - and if he doesn't we can always get rid of him".

    Higgs said he became "an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises". A message would go around the department saying: "Please give a list of your recent publications." Higgs said: "I would send back a statement: 'None.' "

    By the time he retired in 1996, he was uncomfortable with the new academic culture. "After I retired it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it. It wasn't my way of doing things any more. Today I wouldn't get an academic job. It's as simple as that. I don't think I would be regarded as productive enough."

    Higgs revealed that his career had also been jeopardised by his disagreements in the 1960s and 7
  • Thijs Versloot on 10 Dec 13
     
    And the follow up by Nobel prize winner Randy Schekman http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals
  • LeopoldS on 12 Dec 13
     
    interesting one - Luzi will like it :-)
Dario Izzo

Fast Future report: the shape of jobs to come - 5 views

www.slideshare.net/...port-the-shape-of-jobs-to-come

futurology

shared by Dario Izzo on 16 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 16 Jan 10
     
    Long report on new careers and jobs that will be available in 20 years. Space guides is one of them .... (overoptimistic?)
ESA ACT

postdoc & students : science career articles on science postdocs, science PhD students ... - 0 views

www.nature.com/...nj7218-137a.html

Career mentoring management

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    An article about mentoring in science.
jcunha

'Disruptive' science has declined - 2 views

www.nature.com/...d41586-022-04577-5

disruptive science technology

shared by jcunha on 07 Jan 23 - No Cached
  • jcunha on 07 Jan 23
     
    About "Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x. "Overall, our results deepen understanding of the evolution of knowledge and may guide career planning and science policy. To promote disruptive science and technology, scholars may be encouraged to read widely and given time to keep up with the rapidly expanding knowledge frontier. Universities may forgo the focus on quantity, and more strongly reward research quality56, and perhaps more fully subsidize year-long sabbaticals. Federal agencies may invest in the riskier and longer-term individual awards that support careers and not simply specific projects57, giving scholars the gift of time needed to step outside the fray, inoculate themselves from the publish or perish culture, and produce truly consequential work. Understanding the decline in disruptive science and technology more fully permits a much-needed rethinking of strategies for organizing the production of science and technology in the future."
Luís F. Simões

How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards - 1 views

io9.com/...-robots-killed-the-hugo-awards

AI copyright censorship politics sci-fi

shared by Luís F. Simões on 04 Sep 12 - No Cached
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  • Luís F. Simões on 04 Sep 12
     
    We are living in the future when live broadcasts are being censored by AI programs in real-time. I'm sure dictators everywhere are looking forward for these technologies to mature. Having a firewall over reality is so convenient.
  • Marcus Maertens on 05 Sep 12
  • LeopoldS on 10 Sep 12
     
    What this tells is that we should not take AI seriously until smart Luis's (or his son) managed to make something decent out of it ... "This was, of course, absurd. First of all, the clips had been provided by the studios to be shown during the award ceremony. The Hugo Awards had explicit permission to broadcast them. But even if they hadn't, it is absolutely fair use to broadcast clips of copyrighted material during an award ceremony. Unfortunately, the digital restriction management (DRM) robots on Ustream had not been programmed with these basic contours of copyright law. And then, it got worse. Amid more cries of dismay on Twitter, Reddit, and elsewhere, the official Worldcon Twitter announced: Chicon 7@chicon_7 We are sorry to report that #Ustream will not resume the video feed. #chicon7 #hugos #worldcon 3 Sep 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite And with that, the broadcast was officially cut off. Dumb robots, programmed to kill any broadcast containing copyrighted material, had destroyed the only live broadcast of the Hugo Awards. Sure, we could read what was happening on Twitter, or get the official winner announcement on the Hugo website, but that is hardly the same. We wanted to see our heroes and friends on that stage, and share the event with them. In the world of science fiction writing, the Hugo Awards are kind of like the Academy Awards. Careers are made; people get dressed up and give speeches; and celebrities rub shoulders with (admittedly geeky) paparazzi. You want to see and hear it if you can. But Ustream's incorrectly programmed copyright enforcement squad had destroyed our only access. It was like a Cory Doctorow story crossed with RoboCop 2, with DRM robots going crazy and shooting indiscriminately into a crowd of perfectly innocent broadcasts."
Thijs Versloot

Quantum #teleportation theory to be tested on the #ISS - 8 views

phys.org/...eleportation-theory-space.html

science quantum ISS

shared by Thijs Versloot on 22 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 22 Oct 13
     
    A theory-SuperDense quantum teleportation-posed by Hampshire College physics professor Herbert Bernstein will be tested on the International Space Station. Theoretical physicist Bernstein devised the SuperDense scheme more than a decade ago in his investigations of different ways to send a quantum state from one part of a laboratory to a remote station.
  • LeopoldS on 27 Oct 13
     
    Anna could you have a closer look into this - we should at least know what they are up to, be able to explain if anybody asks ... I also somehow missed this one in the NIAC study descriptions ... maybe a good moment to have another look at these "This is the second NASA grant for SuperDense quantum teleportation. A grant awarded in 2010 through NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) investigated the viability of the theory and produced the world's first experimental demonstration. Surprising or seminal experiments have marked Bernstein's research career. This is the fourth time a major proposal has become reality; two of his experiments helped found new sub-fields of physics (neutron interferometry and entanglement for quantum information)."
Joris _

The Pioneer Anomaly, a 30-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery, May Be Resolved At Last | Popular Sc... - 0 views

www.popsci.com/pioneeranomaly

MAD phy pioneer

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  • Joris _ on 16 Dec 10
     
    "After decades spent thinking, arguing, hoping, and in the words of Turyshev, "making a career off of it," these scientists' interest in the Pioneer anomaly has, understandably, accumulated psychological baggage; in the case of many of them, a cloud of emotional investment has formed around the core of objective scientific inquiry. And clouds obscure things."
  • Joris _ on 16 Dec 10
     
    165 pages about it!! http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3686
  • LeopoldS on 20 Dec 10
     
    good old Turyshev ...
Tobias Seidl

Bridges, not barriers - 0 views

www.nature.com/...463999b.html

career science industry

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  • Tobias Seidl on 25 Feb 10
     
    Industry people should not be discriminated when returning to academida. Do we count as industry?
Nina Nadine Ridder

Why Explore Mars? : Discovery News - 5 views

news.discovery.com/...why-explore-mars.html

Mars NASA rover

shared by Nina Nadine Ridder on 04 May 10 - Cached
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 04 May 10
     
    "NASA's proposed budget for 2011 is $19 billion," Brown says. "That's about three weeks of the war in Iraq." + interesting video on new rover design ("tumbleweed" rover)
  • Christos Ampatzis on 05 May 10
     
    that's why I quit ESA - I'll join NATO, more promising career ahead
  • LeopoldS on 05 May 10
     
    I thought you became an EC bureaucrat ...
ESA ACT

AZT - 0 views

azt.allianz.de/...index.html

Career

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Alliaanz (Insurance) center for technology - OR: Getting paid to destroy things. Brilliant job!
nikolas smyrlakis

Microsoft Interview Questions - 0 views

www.sellsbrothers.com/...default.aspx

interview microsoft questions puzzles job fun programming career

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  • nikolas smyrlakis on 03 Jun 09
     
    some nice questions to be implemented for newcomers joke interviews
ESA ACT

Junior Research Fellowship - 0 views

www3.imperial.ac.uk/juniorresearchfellowship

funding Career

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    For anyone in need for post ACT ideas.
Ma Ru

Euroscience Open Forum 2010 - 2 views

www.esof2010.org

science conference Europe

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A conference ACT should consider going to.
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  • Ma Ru on 23 Apr 10
     
    Perhaps some of ACTers will find this conference interesting... One of the talks: "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" [Edit] Oh, I see someone has already posted this link... a year ago. Anyway, if anyone of you plans to go, let me know - I'll be around ;-)
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Just came back from ESOF 2010... I was on look for ACT agents undercover, but either they were not there or the cover was good enough... Anyway here's a few remarks from me (I could write a nice report... if you paid): 1) In general, to say that ESA was underrepresented on the conference as a whole is not enough (I guess ESA just failed to notice the event taking place). For instance, on the GMES presentation, ESA as such was not mentioned at all... at some point I started to wonder if ESA is actually involved in the project, but now I checked the website and apparently it is. On the other hand, GMES presentation was crap anyway, as after 1:15 of talking, I didn't gain any knowledge of what GMES is and what its contributions to the EU community will be. 2) There was a lot of talk about LHC and particle research (well, at least among those that I attended). Some of them were very good, some of them rather crap... 3) "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" talk - quite interesting, but focusing mainly on Science-to-Wide Public and Science-to-Journalists communication. Not really on Science-to-Science (as in Ariadnet). There was quite an extensive discussion with the public. You may be interested that Nature is trying to stimulate Web 2.0 communication, running blog service, but also I think a kind of social network - perhaps you'd like to have a look. In general the conclusion was that Web 2.0 is not so useful for scientific communication because practising it requires TIME (blogs, etc.) and often some professional skills (podcasts/videocasts, etc.), and scientists have neither of these. This can be run on corporation level (like ESA does actually), but then it looses the "intimate" character. 4) "How much can robots learn?" talk... very nicely presented: understandable by the wide public, but conveying the message... which is something like "we can already make the robots do stuff absolutely imp
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Well, my comment was cut in half, and I don't feel like typing it again... the most important highlight from the rest is that the only presenter from ESA (ESTEC) did not show up on his talk because his department was undergoing some sort of audit on the same day :)
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    Fantastic comment - or better report!! thanks very much Marek! Who was the supposed no-show speaker from ESA?
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Bernard Foing (he is actually one of the 8 ESA employees who have their own page on Wikipedia)...
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    written almost entirely by a guy called a "quest for knowledge" ... who will this be????? :-)
ESA ACT

BBC NEWS | Health | Anger at work 'good for career' - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...7918622.stm

psychology

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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Marek, let it all out - it's good for you!
duncan barker

Now is your Chance to Pursue a Career in CHEESE !!!!!!!! - 5 views

www.academicjobseu.com/...job_advert.asp

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  • Ma Ru on 12 Oct 11
     
    "Application of scientific principals for improvement of quality of reduced-fat, reduced-salt cheese" As far as I know, fat and salt content in food correlates *positively* with the taste, so the project is against food quality...
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