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The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has just launched an inquiry into peer review with a deadline for evidence of 10 March 2011. This is regularly raised in the context of research funding - RCUK and RAE - but this seems to be linked in part to the controversy on climate science, although the scope is very much wider. /...more
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Tim Radford, formerly science editor for the Guardian, has written a good article on Nature News on scientists as communicators - worth also scanning the comments. doi:10.1038/469445a
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The UK Department for Education has launched a promised National Curriculum Review consultation. This is a fairly open first stage, asking what topics under the main subject headings are essential at each key stage. The review will run over the next couple of years.
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UK Association for Science Education (ASE) report on Outdoor Science, a product of the Outdoor Science working group, and reflects interest in fieldwork in the curriculum, with interesting potential for museums. A blog post from Steve Tilling of the Field Studies Council is of interest.
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The recent scientific tweetstorm over a paper in Science on the substitution of arsenic for phosphorus in bacterial DNA has stimulated an interesting article on peer commentary, social media in science communications in Nature. A continuing shift from early conference discussions to rapid publication and wide-ranging media engagement and peer commentary.
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Biodiversity information and taxonomy are considered in light of the established and emerging approaches to biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services after the International Year of Biodiversity. Knapp and Boxshall (2010) 'Biodiversity and systematics: how have we fared in the International Year of Biodiversity?', Systematics and Biodiversity, 8: 419—422 DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2010.543008.
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One of the large-scale assessments that came out online at the time of the CBD COP10 in late October: an assessment of conservation effectiveness for vertebrates. Hoffmann et al. (2010) The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates.
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The UK Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology has produced a useful briefing on biodiversity offsetting. Biodiversity offsetting is a policy tool used when loss of or impact on biodiversity is compensated by deliberate improvement elsewhere.
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The Science Media Centre after ten years: article in the Lancet. International network in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Japan. Australia and NZ seem to have a more active approach to online news and blogs.