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Maxine

Maxine

Science journal editor who likes reading crime fiction.
Exclusive insider secrets of a baguette - http://petrona.typepad.com/petrona...
Bad LHC movies: "Baguette to the Future" - AJCann
The Shadow in the Water, by Inger Frimansson - http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library...
You always do such fine reviews, Maxine : ). I learn from each one. - Margot Kinberg
I like the ones that are soooooooo dark to the depths of the soul, Margot ;-) And this one is pretty black. - Maxine
The dark stuff is really captiviating, isn't it? Not being a psychologist, I'm not sure why, but people just really are intrigued by the dark side of human nature... - Margot Kinberg
Yes, I empathise with this type of darkness, whereas I'm allergic to the slashfest type of "dark"! - Maxine
Oh, me, too!!!! - Margot Kinberg
Publish or Perish, by Margot Kinberg - http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library...
OK, I'm still blushing from this one... : ) - Margot Kinberg
It's a jolly good book, Margot - I enjoyed it a lot! Just sorry that I don't have an "outlet" for my reviews of US books - Karen is usually kind enough to take my Euro ones. Certainly I highly recommend "Publish or Perish" - anyone who works in a univ or higher ed environment will find plenty to recognise and smile (wryly) about! As well as good mystery, etc. - Maxine
RT @sarahw: UK fiction sales up, non-fiction way, way down: http://www.thebookseller.com/news... This because nonfiction = rubbish celeb bios & boring cookbks
Cover competition at EMBO Journal - http://blogs.nature.com/nautilu...
Are writers born or do they emerge after a year of being 'workshopped' on a creative writing course? Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
RT @timoreilly: RT @ginablaber Know women making sig. contribs to tech? Nominate by 8 Dec for Women of Vision Award @anitaborg_org #wov10
Book review: Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo - http://petrona.typepad.com/petrona...
RT @Maxine_Clarke: RT @TimesScience: Eureka science magazine CORRECTION 1 (not 0) women scientists. She's near the back on dark grey page.
RT @TimesScience: Eureka science magazine out today. I didn't think possible but No. 2 has even fewer women scientists (0) than issue No. 1.
"Twitter approval matrix" time http://radar.oreilly.com/2009.... Oct: hot, smart= Obama, google, iphone, windows7(!); cold, boring=game boxes, Letterman
Picture of middle England from Susan Hill. As ever, readable! http://www.spectator.co.uk/susanhi...
Assoc of American Publishers report a 189.1% increase in ebook sales for August, less than 1% of the total book market.http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/index...
Be consistent on plagiarism rules, says Nature Genetics - http://blogs.nature.com/nautilu...
This is such an important topic! I agree, too, that some of the problem with plagiarism is that there's little consistency with what "counts" as plagiarism. - Margot Kinberg
Good to see that reproducing other people's experiments isn't considered plagiarism by Nature any more: http://bjoern.brembs.net/news... ;-P - Björn Brembs
"Not even wrong". - Maxine
I still think that in science, it's the data that needs to not be plagiarized, but I could care less if someone copied someone else's _prose description_ of an independently acquired set of facts. Plagiarism to a humanities major is far different from plagiarism to a scientist. - Mr. Gunn
Mr. Gunn -- it seems unusual that you would not be concerned if a scientist were to publish a "_prose description_ of an independently acquired set of facts" if, for example, you were the scientist from whom the prose description was lifted and the plagiarizing writer became the one credited with the idea/s -- particularly given the popularity of "sound bites" as a communication tool. - Mickey Schafer
And I agree wholeheartedly that plagiarism is a different animal for humanities scholar and scientist -- but the difference is in the disciplines' relationship to language itself. In the case of science, where quoting is discouraged and language is simply a tool of communication, every sentence in a research paper represents an idea with an intellectual history behind it. If a sentence... more... - Mickey Schafer
What's odd is I cannot locate the PHS statement anywhere. ORI is here: http://ori.hhs.gov/policie... (see section on finding research misconduct) and the Federal Registry is here: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin.... I must be missing something in the searches. - Mickey Schafer
@Margot -- I think that the inconsistency related to defining plagiarism is that it has become the word used to name all kinds of writing misconduct -- plagiarism is really a major branch off of writing misconduct, but it is not the only branch -- what we need is a good, old-fashioned organizational chart! - Mickey Schafer
Mickey - I think you have a very well-taken point. The word isn't used precisely; in fact, I'd argue that it's become a sort of "blanket" word and is now used in free variation with the larger category of writing misconduct that you mentioned. It's an object lesson in using language precisely... - Margot Kinberg
Mickey - you're mostly right about what I meant. I really would not care if someone else lifted a bit of descriptive text from one of my papers. In fact, I encourage it. Scientists would do well to find a particularly clear way of explaining something and then use and re-use that wording, especially those who are publishing in a language they might not have totally mastered. In science,... more... - Mr. Gunn
Mr Gunn -- "quite common and accepted to re-use verbiage" is exactly why I've never used one of the plagiarism detection services. I'm going to run an experiment of sorts next semester and use Turnitin just to see what kind of percentages come up and how those tally against my "expert intuition" as to whether something was really plagiarized. And I wonder if we haven't engaged in a bit... more... - Mickey Schafer
"It's the ideas and the data which convey the intellectual history. - Mr. Gunn" -- this is quite interesting. I've worked with many students who stated their work was in their data. This remains the case while conversing with like-educated experts, but often fails when reaching across disciplines, where the frames of understanding that lead to a particular data set are not shared. I... more... - Mickey Schafer
Mickey - Let's just say that whether or not I get a grant depends much more strongly on the data and less strongly on the text of the application (really atrocious writing is a different matter). In that respect, the value of my academic output is in the data, and that's where the attribution becomes important. - Mr. Gunn
Okay. That makes sense. And is representative of the relationship most scientists have to their output (data first; words a distant second). Thank you for responding. - Mickey Schafer
Nature celebrates the astonishing variety of reactions to Darwin's ideas - http://blogs.nature.com/nautilu...
RT @BoingBoing: Edmund Wilson's all-purpose "get lost" letter http://www.boingboing.net/2009... . Smile. Would this work for journals?
Bookgroup.info news for November - http://petrona.typepad.com/petrona...
Nature is 140 years old today - 1st issue 4 Nov 1869. (Mission statement missed the deadline so is in issue 2). http://www.nature.com/nature...
Well, either it missed the deadline or the editor didn't think of it until issue 2! - Maxine
Fab editorial here http://www.nature.com/nature... great stuff! - Maxine
10 reasons [book] publishers don't offer feedback on submissions http://heydeadguy.typepad.com/heydead... - think of this applied to sci journals!
EMBO reports asks "Is the end in cite?" - http://blogs.nature.com/nautilu...
RT @crimescraps: Great post! Best Swedish crime fiction the nominees http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2009... When will English readers be able to enjoy these?
RT @eurocrime: part 2 of must-read interview with Don Bartlett: J Nesbo's, K O Dahl's & G Staalesen's translator http://eurocrime.blogspot.com/2009...
RT @UKRC: Our new astro blogger Emily is into journalism and impact craters. Comments very welcome http://www.ukrc4setwomen.org/html...
via @mattfromlondon The Periodic Table of London...can you work out all the elements? http://londonist.com/2009... No, I can't - hope someone can!
David Nutt explains what his dismissal means for drugs policy & scientific advice in Britain. Nature news 2 Nov http://www.nature.com/news...
Thanks, Maxine. - Graham Steel
Nature's autumn books http://www.nature.com/nature... includes bios of Robert Boyle & J Cousteau, Mary Anning's fossils, digi memory, new pbks.
#unseenprequels: "The Manchurian Preselection Committee", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Eggs", "2000 A Space Intinerary" "Waltzes with Cubs" etc.
Free book club: emails "5 min" of a book/day = 2-3 chs per week. New book each wk, "helps to select yr next bk" http://www.dearreader.com/
UK Govt to produce 'model contracts' for copyright dealings (esp digital) to make law useful & understandable. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...
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