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EU DG Research and Innovation has launched a Green paper consulation on a Common Strategic Framework for EU Research and Innovation spending with a deadline of 20 May 2011. Part of the proposal is to bring research together with innovation and technology funding for 2013. Some written contributions were submitted before the Green paper and are available online, including from Universities UK.
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The US-based World Resources Institute has issued a new Reefs at Risk report: good overview with online maps.
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Mapping science museums on the Nature Blog - you know that feeling when you have just got to get to a science museum, any science museum, and are not sure where the nearest one is? Natural history is included.
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The Higher Education Policy Institute is a UK-focused policy organisation - recent publications on HE in an age of austerity and on the issue of the UK government's approach to student visas.
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Australian Museum Science Research Strategy is online and of interest. From a foundation of fundamental research approaches (includiing building collections), there is research on Australian biota in a range of environments, regional evolution and biogeography, human impacts and future trends. AM covers also anthropology and archaeology.
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PNAS cautions on in the unintended effect of impact factors and what happens when indicators replace judgement: an indicator developed for librarians that has had huge and unintended influence on the intellectual economy of science. Marder, E, Kettenmann, H & Grillner S (2010) Impacting our young PNAS 107 (50) 21233; doi:10.1073/pnas.1016516107
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Ken Arnold from the Wellcome Collection and Thomas Soderqvist have developed a challenging set of rules and contentions for museum exhibitions dealing with science - what would the effect be? The rules in brief are as follows, but read the Wellcome blog for discussion:../more
1. Exhibitions should be research-led, not a form of
dissemination2. A scientist should always be involved in the exhibition,
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A paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution estimates costs of naming the remaining 5.4 million animal species, based on costs of taxonomy in Brazil - $200 million. The taxonomic impediment is seen as the most significant barrier to progress Nature blog post quotes the NHM's Chris Lyal.../reference
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Graham has pointed to a new report from the UK Research Information Network, the UK HE/library policy unit: an analysis with considerable evidence of the way in which e-journals are used - what works, what does not, and the impacts.
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The Royal Society has produced its annual state of the nation report on science education Increasing the Size of the Pool, looking at choices and policy needs to increase the number opting for science at university in the UK. The recommendations should cause some interesting arguments.