life as a physicist

Jun 05

Should You Read What You Cite? That Depends

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When arXiv announced it would ban people for hallucinated citations, that is citations of papers that don’t exist, the discussion online got sidetracked by the question of whether academics actually read the papers they cite. Some people proudly insisted that any good scholar always reads every...

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May 29

Doing Things Well Is an International Activity

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In the US, funding agencies seem to be increasingly opposed to an often inevitable feature of good science: international collaboration. Scientists have been told by officials at the National Institutes of Health that they need to remove mention of foreign collaborators from progress reports, or...