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My thoughts on career in #scipolicy have been published in @OxfordCareers Guide2015 And here is the link to the complete guide:

#science policy

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DATA NEEDED TO PUBLISH: THEN VS. NOW

credit: Amanda

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Interesting :)

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Biology still amazes me

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Slow Life: A Macro Timelapse of Coral, Sponges and Other Aquatic Organisms Created from 150,000 Photographs [VIDEO]

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Wow

Brilliant infographic for EU #research

by @greekinfograph #scipolicy #Horizon2020 @EU_H2020 @EUcommission

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#EU #Horizon2020 #Research

After project managers, researchers also raise the issue of job insecurity

#employment #horizontap #scientist&039;s view

An 1 minute (sociological/artistic) experiment inspired by @GooglePoetics

I read on this month's wireduk about googlepoet and I thought I should try it. So I entered "I am feeling a" on google but realized that all the sentences that appeared were negative:

Then I entered "I am feeling b" and all the sentences that appeared once again were negative:

Quite sad by that point, I entered "I am feeling c":

Not all bad this time (since "creative" is in the list and that is a positive attribute) but not all good either.

Frustrated, I did the same for all letters of the english alphabet, as an experiment, in order to find which letters were "pessimistic", which were "optimistic or pessimistic" and which were "optimistic".

Most letters (13/26) were pessimistic:

A, B, D, I, J, K, M, N, P, R, T, U, V

For some letters the sentences were positive or negative:

C, F, L, O, Q, S, W, Z

And only 5 letters were "optimistic" but most not in a good way:

E (all had to do with "excited")

G (all had to do with "good")

H (most had to do with "hot")

X (one sentence appeared referring to x facto)

Y (all had to do with "you").

So these are the feelings of our planet categorized by letter! :(

#google poetics #sociology #feelings #poetry #art

Building the European Research Area: Joint calls on the eve of Horizon2020

#ERANET #european research area #Horizon2020 #joint programming

“Hearing and Being Heard”

A very interesting report was published during the summer holidays! Sciencewise commissioned Ipsos…

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#communication #public policy #UK

A (probable) effect of investments on "sexy" #BigScience projects

I just read a very interesting article entitled “‘Big science’, big hype, big mistake” by Bill Amos and I would like to add my two cents.

“funding bodies seem ever more impressed by shiny big projects coupled with glamorous promises rather than realistic…

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#astroparticle physics #big science #biology #science funding

New #Horizon2020 magazine

Horizon, the EU research and innovation magazine

http://horizon-magazine.eu/

linked to the @innovationunion twitter feed

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#EU #Horizon2020

Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs)

I read today the following tweet

Provisional agreement themes KIC: 2014: Raw Materials & Healthy Living; 2016: FOOD & Added Value Manufacturing; 2018: Urban Mobility.#H2020

— Linze Rijswijk (@linzelive) June 26, 2013

and I wondered what are the KICs in…

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#EIT #Europe #Horizon2020 #innovation #KIC

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La loi Enseignement supérieur et recherche en quelques chiffres

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Tap in or miss out

My article on the progress of the HorizonTap idea was published yesterday (23/5/2013) in ResearchEurope, in the special issue for the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) conference in July (http://ww…

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#Europe #horizontap #science funding #science policy

A number of interesting European Science Foundation reports

Looking at the European Science Foundation publications page, I was happy to discover a number of interesting reports that were published in the last year:

Science in Society: a Challenging Frontier for Science Policy

Indicators of Internationalisation…

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#Europe #innovation #science funding #science in society