http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:03:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now, what I find absolutely horrendous and directly unethical is that all this denigrates the scholarly book, the research monograph. The way I was raised into academia, this was what you meant by research, and now a bunch of foreign bureaucrats with language problems are saying that this does not ... http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2007/12/11/alf-rehn-on-research-assessment-exercise/ Interesting seminar coming up at the Niels Bohr archive, unfortunately it collides with the end of term ceremony at the kids' school: Niels Bohr Archive History of Science Seminar Friday 21 December 2007, 11.15am Auditorium A, Niels Bohr Institute Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen Steven Shapin Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science Harvard University "Science and the Modern ... http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2007/12/11/schools-out/ Spontaneous generations is a new peer reviewed open access STS/HSTM journal. The first issue has opinion pieces, for example one by fellow STS blogger Sage Ross arguing for us scholars to use wikipedia for outreach; papers, including a substantial special section on scientific expertise; and reviews. This could be the start ... http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2007/12/11/open-access-in-sts/ Steven Shapin's review of David Edgerton's The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 is a good read. There's also a review by Steven Yearley in TLS 25 May and one in Nature. http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2007/08/02/david-edgerton/ As an academic, one has to shift between many different tasks; writing drafts for That Next Great Paper, polishing text, going over referee reports, writing grant applications, reading, marking students' papers, developing lectures, lecture, talk with students about this and that, and so on. Some of these activities are easily started ... http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/12/18/work-work-work/ Stanley Milgram sent postcards, Scott Eric Kaufman tracks the spread of a meme across the bloggosphere in an experiment that will be presented at the MLA conference. Kaufman wants to evaluate in what way weblogs affords scholars the opportunity to easily and enthusiastically cross heretofore closely guarded disciplinary boundaries. Furthermore, it ... http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/11/30/participate-in-an-experiment/ "Flickr already provides all the tools the typical faculty member needs", Edwired concludes an interesting discussion on the use of Flickr in teaching. I agree, the tools are there and the collection of images is really great and tagged and everything. I really like this web2.0-meets-education development as an alternative ... http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/11/30/web-20-tools-in-education/ Been reading the new volume of Osiris, now a free bonus with the HSS membership/ISIS subscription; titled Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International Affairs, editors John Krige and Kai-Henrik Barth have drawn together papers that address the fact that, as they state in the introduction, science and ... http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/11/29/web-based-material/ Dan Cohen writes on why academics should blog. Especially, I like how he relates an idea from Paul Bushkovitch, who had argued that the key to being a successful scholar is to become completely obsessed with a topic, which, after a while, makes you into what others perceive of as ... http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/11/21/why-professors-should-blog/ Bibliometry: Citescape is an interesting piece of software. http://www.gustavholmberg.com/magnitude/2006/08/11/bibliometry/