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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Much to learn from the chemists … of the UK
“… the attitude that professional administrators with little scientific knowledge can arbitrarily decide the fate of UK science is arrogant, contemptuous of the scientific community and just wrong.” A storm is indeed brewing in the scientific circles of the UK against … Continue reading
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“CREATE”, Command and Control
NSERC Communications replied to our guest blogger Karel Casteels, about his post regarding the dwindling numbers of graduate and postgraduate fellowships (CGS and PGS and PDFs). Cutting through the maze of budgetary reporting, the key to the story lies in the following NSERC statement: … Continue reading
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Au revoir, Le Bon Jack, si bien, si gentil
Very sad news this morning. Canada lost a good politician, Jack Layton, a decent and likable man with a great heart, who has been able to transcend the bitterness that politics seems to breed. His untimely death is so damn unfair! Here … Continue reading
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“Keeping a single rioter in jail is equivalent to what? Two postdocs?”
Here is a very recent exchange between two UK mathematicians. It hit so close to home –riots and all, Hockey or not– that I couldn’t resist! The subject was the recent acts of “dirigisme” at the UK’s “Engineering and Physical Sciences … Continue reading
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Google celebrates Fermat’s 410th birthday
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Karel Casteels: NSERC’s numbers on PDFs don’t add up!
“Apres moi le deluge?”. Not so for Governor General’s Gold Medalist Scholar, Karel Casteels, who was the one who alerted us to the dramatic drop in NSERC’s graduate and postgraduate fellowships. He wrote then: “I recently finished my own PhD. I … Continue reading
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Piece of Mind 