Careers in science
How to use technology to teach undegraduate biology
Explanations by Stony Brook U. professor William Collins: it was fun to watch for me.
Harvard near bankruptcy
Just wanted to finally end my day and go to sleep (way too much work today), but heard some news and cannot help sharing it with you.
According to Boston Magazine Harvard University is to face some very serious problems. The University currently spends about 1.5 billion USD/year, it has lost several billion during crisis – including 500 million thanks to Larry Summers, super feminist fighter (essentially, he presented those 500 million as a gift for GS). If only Dr. Summers spent more time thinking about what he was supposed to think about… but he is clearly not the person to blame as they want him to be.
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How many scientists fabricate or falsify their research?
This is the title of a rather intriguing paper recently published in PLos ONE. As it turns out, approximately 72% of researchers have seen at least once how their colleagues used inappropriate or incorrect methods of research.
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349. The question of quality
Last time we had a nice, surprisingly long discussion trying to answer the question how much should you publish in order to be considered a successful postdoc 
From Michal’s point of view, this is not quantity but quality of your publications that should matter.
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334. How much should you publish?
As far as I remember, it was believed that one has to publish about 2-3 papers/year during glorious and relaxing PhD years (i.e., about 1 paper per 4-6 months, not a too heavy burden indeed)… This would give necessary 6 publications in the end of the term (in Russia, getting your PhD takes 3 years) for your thesis to be officially considered worth defending. If you were publishing less than 2 papers/year, you were assigned a mark “loser”, which is, I guess, quite reasonable 
Being loser meant that you had to spend another year preparing your thesis, then – another one, until the overall number of your publications would hit the magical number 6. Believe it or not, I happen to know (many) very smart people belonging to this category.
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