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The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, just outside of Cambridge in the UK, is a major center for genomic research. Nearly 1000 people work there and they’ve recently begun a Sex in Science program which...
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Last year, the world lost a great woman, a great feminist thinker and a great poet. Maya Angelou’s death has left us poorer when we attempt, as the cliché goes, to speak truth to power. A pragmatic...
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From a speech at Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, June 17, 2015 It’s a simple film, but I find it incredibly inspiring. When I first watched it, I actually found myself a little sad because it shows such...
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Why international students should not come to Norway
The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education recently organized an event about the value of international students. My presentation was called Why international students should not...
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A few months ago, I became the president of a university. The biggest challenges I face are about communication. Reaching people, finding good opportunities to listen, and trying to build a vision...
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The world currently spends about €7.6 billion per year on subscriptions to academic journals according to one report. Every year, those journals publish about 2 million articles. On average, then, we...
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Former United States Supreme Court Justice, Potter Stewart, said that while pornography may be insurmountably difficult to define, “I know it when I see it.” The Norwegian Ministry of Education and...
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Researchers publish scholarly articles reporting their research results for two reasons. First, they want their work to be distributed so it can be put to use, either by colleagues in their...
View ArticleWhere’s the evidence? A little science about bias and gender equality
Policy making should be informed by research. Whether it’s the writing of new laws, making policies for career advancement, or deciding how to make your conference more inclusive, there is research...
View ArticlePlan-S doesn’t go far enough
From the perspective of researchers, universities, and governments, our international system for scientific publication is broken in at least three ways. Plan S is designed to address one of these, but...
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