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Scholster

Spent most of the day at the Publishing the Future symposium. I’ll restrict my remarks here to some quick observations on two recurring themes in several of the talks, since (fingers crossed) we’ll have videos of the talks up on the web within the next couple of weeks. The first theme was related to a […]
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UCI Design

The University of California at Irvine (zot! zot! zot!) is having an on-line conference next week to discuss their plans to launch a new School of Design. This is not, in their conception, a small endeavor. They have plans (pdf) to start out large and get bigger. It’s funny: despite having done time in a […]
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Invited

In the academic world, being “invited” to a conference usually means that someone will be paying for you to come. This is always a nice thing: you get to engage in a conference without having to worry about the money side of things. Folks at some universities and in some fields do not have to […]
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Super-expedited review

Graduate students quickly learn to loathe human subjects review. It’s not that they don’t see the need, nor that they would like to be doing intrusive research. It’s just that most of what we do, while it certainly has an effect on our subjects (how could it not?!), has an effect that is extremely small. […]
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