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Demise of the Australian ERA journal rankings
Earlier this week Australian Senator Kim Carr (Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) announced the removal of the somewhat controversial ERA rankings for scientific journals. Early...
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How to write a scientific paper
Several years ago, my long-time mate, colleague and co-director, Barry Brook, and I were lamenting how most of our neophyte PhD students were having a hard time putting together their first paper...
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Learning how to fail
On the way to work yesterday I was listening to ABC Radio National‘s Life Matters program hosted by Natasha Mitchell about how school children are now apparently being given so much positive praise and...
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This is probably more of an act of self-therapy on a Friday afternoon to alleviate some frustration, but it is an important issue all the same. An Open Letter to academic publishers: Why, oh why, do...
View ArticleAcademic? You’re just a cash-hamster spinning a publisher’s profit wheel
I contend that publishing articles in nearly all peer-reviewed journals amounts to a form of intellectual slavery. I defend my use of the word ‘slavery’ here, for how else would you describe a business...
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