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Ideas & Opinions - Rebecca Peabody: Nevada County Veterinary Disaster Response Team was predecessor to current HEART efforts
Nevada County Veterinary Disaster Response Team was predecessor to current HEART efforts The Stefanie Geckler and HEART article was inspirational and showed how they have developed over the last year (‘Stefanie Geckler: Giving More Than ‘HEART’’, The Union 11/9, by Ashley Quadros of Nevada County Sheriff’s Office). One aspect of the animal evacuation process that was poorly represented was the care of the animals post rescue.
Economics is becoming an elite subject for elite UK universities
UK universities have had to become much more responsive to changes in the pattern of demand and compete with one another for different revenue streams. James Johnston and Alan Reeves ask how this has played out in relation to the undergraduate economics degree, finding that new universities have retreated from offering economics programmes even as student numbers rose substantially.
Unbundling is Over-rated: On the value of contributing to an edited book
Terry Clague sheds reasonable doubt on the assertion that contributing to edited book chapters is a waste of time. The sole aim of publication isn’t necessarily to maximise citations. If citations are the only measure of academic value then there’s a danger that academic research becomes the X-Factor. Furthermore, edited collections can also aid discovery of new material where new voices and approaches can be heard.
Academic freedom under threat as US Congress targets climate change scholars.
A few weeks ago allegations surfaced over undisclosed ties between Dr Willie Soon, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and corporate interests from the energy industry. Dr Soon is now under investigation, and a Democratic member of Congress has used it as an opportunity to suggest climate change academics who have been invited by Republicans to give evidence at Congressional hearings may also have hidden links to the fossil fuel industry.
Buzzfeed: A new home for research?
Jeff Knezovich shares his experience using the online news portal Buzzfeed to share the latest research findings. For topics not usually at the front-and-centre, Buzzfeed provides a quick and easy way to bring people up to speed. Buzzfeed’s ‘splainer (short for ‘explainer’) format was very well received, with the post accessed ten times more than the PDF and research website formats.
High-impact journals: where newsworthiness trumps methodology
Criticism continues to mount against high impact factor journals with a new study suggesting a preference for publishing front-page, “sexy” science has been at the expense of methodological rigour. Dorothy Bishop confirms these findings in her assessment of a recent paper published on dyslexia and fears that if the primary goal of some journals is media coverage, science will suffer. More attention should be placed on whether a study has adopted an appropriate methodology.
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