Category Archives: Science Policy

Am I a geek?

At the Guardian.

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That Science for the Future lobby of parliament: A view from a participant

At the Guardian. By Cyrus Hirjibehedin.

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Gaming the system? Neutrinos, theorists and citations

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 7.1 of Smashing Physics.

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The Higgs will be open access

George Monbiot is right, but how did particle physics escape? At the Guardian. I read George Monbiot’s piece on the high social, intellectual and financial cost of the academic publishing business with a familiar sense of outrage, shared in most of the follow … Continue reading

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