Elektrokemi kan nog vara den mest underskattade vetenskapsdiciplinen vi har. Jag säger inte det (bara) för att det råkar vara mitt fält och att ingen verkar ha en aning om vad det handlar om! För även om elektrokemi kanske inte är lika sexigt som astronomi eller spektakulärt som partikelfysik så […]
We all get our fair share of spam – although as filters are getting better I actually don’t see that much of it – but as an academic scientist there is a special class of junk hitting the inbox: Invitations to publish in journals and to give talks at conferences. […]
I saw this tweet from New Scientist about the Kepler mission. Kepler of course was an amazing mission that completely changed our view of the universe. But the numbers got me thinking a bit about the cost of a scientific publication. It says that 2946 scientific papers were published, I […]
I just listened to a podcast from BBC radio’s Science Stories about Ivan Pavlov and his dog-experiments. Not only are the standard explanation of those experiment vastly simplified to the border of being plain wrong, it turns out that the famous bell was never used at all. But see what I […]
There’s something sad about that Trudeau-video we’re all liking now. I mean it’s a cool retort to a slightly snarky joke, but while his quantum-computer explanation was …kinda correct… it wasn’t really anything to gush over. It was more or less like “Hamlet is about a prince in a castle… oh, […]
I was recently visiting a workshop on surface modification (SMCBS) that is organised every other year by people from our institute. Looking around the room I realised that the audience was about half men and half women.* However, despite the almost equal representation of genders among the conference participants most of the speakers […]
Det var några år sedan jag senast bloggade om mina Nobel-gissningar. Under en period lyckades jag ganska väl med att gissa fysikpriset – rätt tre år i rad. Men sedan kom grafen, mörk energi och annat jag inte gissat. Egentligen behöver man ju inte uppdatera sin lista så mycket. Ta […]
So, we finally have a new director… or, at least we think we do. There was some uncertainty about the colour of the smoke at the conclave at the Polish Academy of Sciences Friday two weeks ago, and still there is no official information. Like the laws and sausages that Bismarck never […]
There has been a lot of talk the last week or so about a study published in the Journal of Educational Psychology showing that despite an increasing number of women most of us still picture a scientist as a man. As one of the authors of the study writes in a very thoughtful article for […]
So here we go again… Another post about the state of pay for Polish scientists. This time it’s not as personal a rant as last time, at least not yet. When it comes to paying scientists there are basically two competing models; either you have a fixed pay from your […]
