Yeah, their editor-in-chief is only the chief of mammalian genetics at NIH, and their editorial board is a bunch of slackers from the likes of Georgeton, UCLA school of medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Vancerbilt, Nortwestern, UC, etc.
actually he makes the point that I tried to make above... the journal may have some big names on their editorial board (in fact, I worked in the past with some of them)...
but how often do they publish in their own journal... hint: almost never.
maybe, i should clarify, i'm a junior professor and i have never heard of this journal (nor has any of the 6 people in the office I am sitting in, all post-PhDs in biochem/chem/biophysics.)
sorry, i guess that i wasn't clear, i shouldn't try to write grants and read slashdot at the same.
one of my pet peeves is no-name journals spouting of their impact factors. even worse is a journal that i have never heard of spouting off about their "unofficial" impact factor.
as this correlates to the study at hand... why not publish in a respected journal? their careers depend upon it. i haven't read the article, but the suggests methodological lapses (i mean PLoS ONE would love this type of article if it's done well).
as a scientist, it has two things I dislike listed on its webpage...
1. In a prominent position its "unofficial IMPACT FACTOR"... ugh.
2. In a prominent position its "UNOFFICIAL impact factor"... well, if TR/ISI can't find it important enough to tabulate (assuming this is what unofficial indicates), why should we care:(
in fact, this is the first time I have heard of the journal... if the work is more widely useful, we not publish in a more widely-read journal?
basically a bunch of average CGI on top of the tried-and-true cinematography to cause a sense a panic in the viewer.
I didn't see any new ideas nor any new cinematographic techniques.
what am I missing?
it seems like Fede wrote a short storyline, divided it into scenes, shot the scenes with a "few" extras and dropped some CGI on top. how is this different from any Film School project? Ah, it doesn't show any plot, character development, suspense or new techniques/ideas:(
story must be bogus.
don't bring a laptop... it's a vacation.
buy a ton of SD cards. if you travel a lot (which you probably don't... if vacation is only used if it's going to be lost) they'll pay for themselves after a while.
why risk/have the hassle of a laptop just to store pictures... spend the extra 20USD on extra SD cards.
2-year non-renewable R01. Not so interested in that. In addition, it really fucks things up for the regular cycle of grant submissions. Expect, middle single digit success rates:( for R01s.
Stopped reading here: "I noticed one of the guys who was all over the tech conversation was all of a sudden very quite."
Quite what? Please put some effort in! Seriously... ugh:(
I went to college, then to graduate school for a PhD, then did a postdoc, now run a research group.
Maybe I'm too picky:(
That's probably because you haven't lived here.
Just for starters: vacation time (I get 6 weeks plus holidays... about 10 weeks total), pension systems, fashion, public transport, historical culture.
You are a proud (and ignorant) bunch, which is why I left and became a professor over here.
on our side of the pond we have cities with more cell towers than your entire country and we want coverage in every little corner in the US even if no one lives for miles around
That's funny because here in Sweden we are in the process of upgrading to the mobile network to 150Mb/s service in the metro areas and 80Mb/s everywhere else across the country. That's in a country the size of California with a population of 9 million people.
What's your excuse?
It's a Mac PRO; not a Mac HOBBY, Mac FUN, or Mac HOME. Professionals will gladly pay the extra cost for a shiny designer computer.
Let me put it this way. I've made about 500k EUR in the past year or so from submitting grant proposals. If I spend an extra 15min working per day because of the new/shiny/overpriced computer, that's an extra 5 hours per month.
Every new PhD student here gets a top-spec MacBook as soon as the enter the group (MacBookPros are kinda heavy and a pain to lug around) because they'll get more done and be more accessible if they have one. Sure, it's a premium over a Dell craptop, but they're more likely to use it and travel with it.
To be honest, I can't believe all of these arguments about overpriced equipment. It's device to used by professionals, whom, if they are really professionals, will see the additional value.
I do, I work within the field of bacterial chemotaxis and have spoken with Dr. Bray.
You're right, chemotaxis was an excellent modeling choice due to wealth of knowledge available (20-30 years of prior experimental research).
I just don't like the use of absolutes by the person who submitted the article.
Both tehcniques have pros and cons and the best approach (given infinite time and money) would be to employ both in parallel. In fact, I believe that with the adavnces in NMR technology, it will one day replace the use of X-ray crystallography.
Also a scientist, you'd even be more marketable with both skillsets at the end:)
Roland Piquepaille writes "As you might know, proteins need to be transformed into 3-D crystals before their atomic structures and their properties can be analyzed.
Ever hear of using NMR to determine tertiary structure in solution? Just for the record, it doesn't require cystals.
I saw (in person) Michael Behe, author of "Darwin's Black Box", debate a scientist and I have to say it was perhaps the most sorry performance I have ever seen (yet the audience loved it).
His presentation was focused on quoting one scientist's perspective, then quoting another scientist who disagreed with the first. He continued by pointing out a spelling error in the first scientist's statement, which was recycled by a third scientist (with the spelling error of the first.) He argued that if scientists cannot agree and copy others' work, how can we trust them at all (especially with something as important as evolutionary theory)?
Honestly, his entire argument was to foster the distrust of the audience toward scientists. Even more shocking than his presentation was the reaction of some members of the audience. It appears that they felt validated by his presentation.
Yikes!
FOR BONUS POINTS - I now see the parallel between the ideologies of ID and Microsoft - security through obscurity.
My wife had a student loan that had been paid in full appear as a student loan with 19 deliquent payments (90+ days overdue). Talk about a small mistake.
I composed a letter to the credit reporting agency and encloded a copy of the statement demonstrating it was paid in full.
Here is a copy of letter I sent. I had immediate results (less than 30 days total) so feel free to use it.
SUBJECT: Dispute of Incorrect Information Listed in Credit Report
Please review the following inaccurate item listed in my credit report.
See attached portion of Credit Report labeled "Derogatory Information". The reporting error is circled in red ink.
Account: University name
Acct #: Her SSN
Also attached is a "Borrower Inquiry" detailing the absence of any delinquent payments. The relevant information is circled in red ink.
These records can be confirmed by ACS Educational Services (Tele: 630-620-2777, Acct:).
In accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, I understand you will check the aforementioned item with the creditors listed and remove any item which cannot be verified. I further understand you will investigate and reply to my request within 30 days. Upon completion of the investigation, I expect to receive a corrected version of my credit report.
The full story is that I was 18 and she wasn't my wife yet. I thought it was funny but by her reaction, it definitely wasn't.
Also, since then (10 years), I have dropped the fast-car driving, tough-guy attitude usually associted with teenagers (at least in my social circles) and treat everyone, including my wife with respect.
I was attempting to illustrate that extremely intellegent people (esp. my wife) can panic when undue stress is placed upon them.
That's a good point, often panic will cloud rational thought. Also, the total time from ~80-110 was less than 10 seconds, so she was most likely in panic.
In fact the second time, she pulled the shifter into neutral effectly slowing the car, but almost destroying the engine in the process.
I used to use the "uncontrollable accelartion" trick with my wife and our Toyota Supra.
The Cruise control buttons (on, set, and resume) we beneath the 5 speed shifter and the computer remembered the last speed used even after the car was turned off and on.
One day, I decided to play a trick on my wife, because she hated the car. In the morning, I set the cruise at 110 mph. Later that day, we were on the Turnpike driving somewhere (she was driving) and I casually hit the resume button and the car acclerated at full throttle from 75-80 mph to over 100, with her freaking out the whole time.
I was actually quite surprised how much she freaked out. She's a very intellegent person and all she had to do was step on the brake or clutch, but she just flipped out as it accelerated.
On the way home I did the same thing and her reponse: to pull the car into neutral. I watched the engine spin to 9k rpms (quite rapidly). Not so good. At which point I freaked out and told her about the "trick."
In summary, I was very suprised that someone as intellegent as my wife completely lost it as the car accelerated, so I can easily see how others would react in this situation. Hiiting the breaks/clutch/etc... may not be easy for someone to comprehend at the time of unwanted acceleration.
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Yeah, their editor-in-chief is only the chief of mammalian genetics at NIH, and their editorial board is a bunch of slackers from the likes of Georgeton, UCLA school of medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Vancerbilt, Nortwestern, UC, etc.
actually he makes the point that I tried to make above ... the journal may have some big names on their editorial board (in fact, I worked in the past with some of them) ...
but how often do they publish in their own journal ... hint: almost never.
maybe, i should clarify, i'm a junior professor and i have never heard of this journal (nor has any of the 6 people in the office I am sitting in, all post-PhDs in biochem/chem/biophysics.)
sorry, i guess that i wasn't clear, i shouldn't try to write grants and read slashdot at the same. one of my pet peeves is no-name journals spouting of their impact factors. even worse is a journal that i have never heard of spouting off about their "unofficial" impact factor. as this correlates to the study at hand ... why not publish in a respected journal? their careers depend upon it. i haven't read the article, but the suggests methodological lapses (i mean PLoS ONE would love this type of article if it's done well).
as a scientist, it has two things I dislike listed on its webpage... 1. In a prominent position its "unofficial IMPACT FACTOR" ... ugh.
2. In a prominent position its "UNOFFICIAL impact factor" ... well, if TR/ISI can't find it important enough to tabulate (assuming this is what unofficial indicates), why should we care :(
in fact, this is the first time I have heard of the journal ... if the work is more widely useful, we not publish in a more widely-read journal?
that alone is enough to prevent me from reading the article.
basically a bunch of average CGI on top of the tried-and-true cinematography to cause a sense a panic in the viewer. I didn't see any new ideas nor any new cinematographic techniques. what am I missing? it seems like Fede wrote a short storyline, divided it into scenes, shot the scenes with a "few" extras and dropped some CGI on top. how is this different from any Film School project? Ah, it doesn't show any plot, character development, suspense or new techniques/ideas :(
story must be bogus.
don't bring a laptop ... it's a vacation.
buy a ton of SD cards. if you travel a lot (which you probably don't ... if vacation is only used if it's going to be lost) they'll pay for themselves after a while.
why risk/have the hassle of a laptop just to store pictures ... spend the extra 20USD on extra SD cards.
2-year non-renewable R01. Not so interested in that. In addition, it really fucks things up for the regular cycle of grant submissions. Expect, middle single digit success rates :( for R01s.
Stopped reading here: "I noticed one of the guys who was all over the tech conversation was all of a sudden very quite." Quite what? Please put some effort in! Seriously ... ugh :(
I went to college, then to graduate school for a PhD, then did a postdoc, now run a research group.
Maybe I'm too picky :(
even better would be E. coli, but perhaps I ask too much :(
There was a good reason to use skype?
you must be American and not call international very often :(
That's probably because you haven't lived here. Just for starters: vacation time (I get 6 weeks plus holidays ... about 10 weeks total), pension systems, fashion, public transport, historical culture.
You are a proud (and ignorant) bunch, which is why I left and became a professor over here.
on our side of the pond we have cities with more cell towers than your entire country and we want coverage in every little corner in the US even if no one lives for miles around
That's funny because here in Sweden we are in the process of upgrading to the mobile network to 150Mb/s service in the metro areas and 80Mb/s everywhere else across the country. That's in a country the size of California with a population of 9 million people. What's your excuse?
It's a Mac PRO; not a Mac HOBBY, Mac FUN, or Mac HOME. Professionals will gladly pay the extra cost for a shiny designer computer. Let me put it this way. I've made about 500k EUR in the past year or so from submitting grant proposals. If I spend an extra 15min working per day because of the new/shiny/overpriced computer, that's an extra 5 hours per month. Every new PhD student here gets a top-spec MacBook as soon as the enter the group (MacBookPros are kinda heavy and a pain to lug around) because they'll get more done and be more accessible if they have one. Sure, it's a premium over a Dell craptop, but they're more likely to use it and travel with it. To be honest, I can't believe all of these arguments about overpriced equipment. It's device to used by professionals, whom, if they are really professionals, will see the additional value.
Lycka till och tack sa mycket for allt!
I do, I work within the field of bacterial chemotaxis and have spoken with Dr. Bray. You're right, chemotaxis was an excellent modeling choice due to wealth of knowledge available (20-30 years of prior experimental research).
I understand what you're saying.
:)
I just don't like the use of absolutes by the person who submitted the article.
Both tehcniques have pros and cons and the best approach (given infinite time and money) would be to employ both in parallel. In fact, I believe that with the adavnces in NMR technology, it will one day replace the use of X-ray crystallography.
Also a scientist, you'd even be more marketable with both skillsets at the end
I saw (in person) Michael Behe, author of "Darwin's Black Box", debate a scientist and I have to say it was perhaps the most sorry performance I have ever seen (yet the audience loved it).
His presentation was focused on quoting one scientist's perspective, then quoting another scientist who disagreed with the first. He continued by pointing out a spelling error in the first scientist's statement, which was recycled by a third scientist (with the spelling error of the first.) He argued that if scientists cannot agree and copy others' work, how can we trust them at all (especially with something as important as evolutionary theory)?
Honestly, his entire argument was to foster the distrust of the audience toward scientists. Even more shocking than his presentation was the reaction of some members of the audience. It appears that they felt validated by his presentation.
Yikes!
FOR BONUS POINTS - I now see the parallel between the ideologies of ID and Microsoft - security through obscurity.
thanks a ton for an insightful post.
The coverage on blogs from New Orleans was excellent IMHO.
Can anyone direct me, and the rest of Slashdot, to a decent blog concerning this event?
Thanks in advance.
My wife had a student loan that had been paid in full appear as a student loan with 19 deliquent payments (90+ days overdue). Talk about a small mistake.
I composed a letter to the credit reporting agency and encloded a copy of the statement demonstrating it was paid in full.
Here is a copy of letter I sent. I had immediate results (less than 30 days total) so feel free to use it.
SUBJECT: Dispute of Incorrect Information Listed in Credit Report
Please review the following inaccurate item listed in my credit report.
See attached portion of Credit Report labeled "Derogatory Information". The reporting error is circled in red ink.
Account: University name
Acct #: Her SSN
Also attached is a "Borrower Inquiry" detailing the absence of any delinquent payments. The relevant information is circled in red ink.
These records can be confirmed by ACS Educational Services (Tele: 630-620-2777, Acct:).
In accordance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, I understand you will check the aforementioned item with the creditors listed and remove any item which cannot be verified. I further understand you will investigate and reply to my request within 30 days. Upon completion of the investigation, I expect to receive a corrected version of my credit report.
Sincerely,
The full story is that I was 18 and she wasn't my wife yet. I thought it was funny but by her reaction, it definitely wasn't.
Also, since then (10 years), I have dropped the fast-car driving, tough-guy attitude usually associted with teenagers (at least in my social circles) and treat everyone, including my wife with respect.
I was attempting to illustrate that extremely intellegent people (esp. my wife) can panic when undue stress is placed upon them.
If you had, you'd know the for miles on end there are no "others around us."
Gotta pass the time somehow.
In fact the second time, she pulled the shifter into neutral effectly slowing the car, but almost destroying the engine in the process.
The Cruise control buttons (on, set, and resume) we beneath the 5 speed shifter and the computer remembered the last speed used even after the car was turned off and on.
One day, I decided to play a trick on my wife, because she hated the car. In the morning, I set the cruise at 110 mph. Later that day, we were on the Turnpike driving somewhere (she was driving) and I casually hit the resume button and the car acclerated at full throttle from 75-80 mph to over 100, with her freaking out the whole time.
I was actually quite surprised how much she freaked out. She's a very intellegent person and all she had to do was step on the brake or clutch, but she just flipped out as it accelerated.
On the way home I did the same thing and her reponse: to pull the car into neutral. I watched the engine spin to 9k rpms (quite rapidly). Not so good. At which point I freaked out and told her about the "trick."
In summary, I was very suprised that someone as intellegent as my wife completely lost it as the car accelerated, so I can easily see how others would react in this situation. Hiiting the breaks/clutch/etc... may not be easy for someone to comprehend at the time of unwanted acceleration.