Over the weekend, I read the previous entry on this blog. It’s a post by my ex-PhD Student Emma, who having done a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics here at Surrey, is now working in climate change analysis at the London School of Economics. One shouldn’t really be surprised to find physicists in such places. […]
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One of the ways of distinguishing between good science, and poor quality science and pseudo-science, is that good science leads to predictions that can be tested by experiments. Poor quality and pseudo-science does not. For example, we know there will be an eclipse of the Sun visible from parts of Europe on March 20th 2015. […]
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This post was inspired by a Guardian article about the American University Harvard (probably the world’s richest university) announcing that “Major Periodical Subscriptions Cannot Be Sustained” by which they mean that the journals (aka periodicals) where academics like me publish our research results are getting so expensive that Harvard can no longer afford them.
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Yesterday was the 2012 postgraduate graduation ceremony where physics graduands got their masters and PhDs. A student of mine got her PhD, so I was there, and very proud. She is from Malaysia so her parents could not be there, but her husband was and lots of pictures were taken so her parents could see […]
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I have just got back from a scientific conference in Bristol. I thoroughly enjoyed it; it was great to hear of interesting science, and to meet up with friends I have not met for a year or two. Most of the talks were quite pure science and quite technical, but I did learn about ‘blue […]
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