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Science in the Big Society
A quick post. I meant to mention, and link to, this interesting post and discussion thread on Alice Bell’s excellent blog on Wednesday. It was prompted by a Royal Society blog by Jack Stilgoe. In a...
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It's time to seek out the real citizens in science
Alice Bell has written a good piece today with her reflections on this week’s Science and Citizenship conference. Its worth a read and has certainly given me something to ponder over the Christmas...
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mICRA, PROSPERO, Beddington and Bell
Announcements are like buses. There are none for what seem like days and then several come all at once. My job is to make sure you get on the right one… NIHR has several announcements out today which...
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Exortic science goes kryptonite, perhaps
Today’s headline is taken from the menu for my Indian take away last night which talked of ‘exortic sauces.’ A spelling mistake it might be but I was rather taken with the idea of my curry sauce...
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The public interest argument must extend beyond open access…here’s a sort of...
Good Guardian blog yesterday giving a lay summary of the ‘open access’ debate vis a vis papers published in scientific journals. There’s also been a healthy exchange of letters in The Times this week...
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The medical marathon; a piece to mark the #LondonMarathon2014
What is, I wonder, the equivalent of Noel Coward’s lyric ‘only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun,’ which might encapsulate the phenomenon that is the Virgin Money London Marathon? This...
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