Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/thousands-of-scientists-vow-to-b.html?ref=em
David Cameron Duffy Ph.D.
Professor/PCSU Unit Leader/CESU Director
PCSU/CESU/Department of Botany
University of Hawaii Manoa
some real data to go with all the commentary on alien invasive species.
from Biological Invasions
When are eradication campaigns successful? A test of common assumptions
Therese Pluess, Ray Cannon, Vojtěch Jarošík, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek and Sven
Bacher
email to therese.plu...@gmx.ch
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Check it out. Chris, as originator of this thread, I
especially think you would be interested in this.
Sincerely,
Joe Nocera
(Member of the Board of Governers for Peerage of Science)
- Original Message -
From: David C Duffy ddu...@hawaii.edu
Date: Saturday, January 7, 2012 2
I haven't the time to develop this, so I'll throw it out there in hopes someone
will run with it. I believe being asked to referee indicates one's standing in
a field. Journals will always try to get the best referees possible. We simply
don't have a way to measure or reward reviewing.
For
Here is one example of new costs (read the second url especially). State
colleges and universities that offer distance learning out of state must be
licensed by the other states. If you have one student or 100 from state x, you
have to get licensed by that state. The other states, since it is
One element in the increase in college costs, not just research, is
accountability. Congress has passed laws that had good objectives (protecting
human subjects, protecting animals, ensuring occupational safety, reducing
campus crime, ensuring no discrimination on campus, ensuring fair value
The Great Plains is good horse habitat even though horses did not evolve
there.
Actually I believe they did. Miocene fossil remains of precursors to Equus are
found in the Great Plains, as as well as Pleistocene Equus. I seem to recall
the evolution of equids was shaped by the Plains
The Games Scientists Play: The Contrarian
In today’s crowded market for ecologists, it is hard to stand out or get
ahead. Work poured into a dissertation or long term project, no mater how
excellent, may not help, if the research doesn’t pan out or the topic becomes
unfashionable. Similarly,
