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There’s something about spring term that’s always crazy. Last week was my last presentation obligation of the term – the WILU conference in Montreal. WILU is one of my favorite conferences, based on the one time I’ve been before, and luckily we presented on Tuesday, so I was able to enjoy most of it without [...]
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So the whirlwind trip back to Philadelphia is over. It was definitely fun; still might end up being ill-advised. The WILU presentation is looming large now, and we’ll see how much I end up missing that 36 hours. We walked up to see the hullaboo that is alumni weekend/ reunions at my alma mater, and [...]
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I have a more substantive post brewing, but I am about to head out on a whirlwind (and probably ill-advised) trip back east to visit friends, and I don’t think it will get done tonight. I wanted to mention a couple of things today, though, while they are still fresh in my mind. I taught [...]
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I give up. You know that there is an intersection between science and marketing – 4 of 5 doctors agree that X works for Y? Most of the marketing goes on below public radar; it’s not directed at us, but at other medical professionals. This 2005 article at PLoS Medicine couldn’t state it more strongly: [...]
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I think a lot about peer review, but it’s almost all about the journals side of things – the related-but-not-the-same issues of open access and peer review. And by that which is called “editorial peer review” to distinguish it from peer review in the grants/funding world, a kind of peer review that is probably much [...]
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