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Oct 20, 2024 · On Tuesday evening I was asked by Research Professional News for my views on a new report from think tank UKDayOne, which is calling for the abolition of the Research Excellence Framework, unlovingly known as the REF.. The report is provocative and interesting. It has won loud support from one Dominic Cummings. It’s standfirst promises that a lighter-touch alternative will have multiple ...
About Occam’s Typewriter
Occam’s Typewriter is a community project to bring together current and erstwhile scientists who like to write. We have all been blogging at various places over the years, independently and on networks. But we felt that the time was right to create an independent network, so we could all have editorial freedom yet also have the benefits of a ...
December | 2021 | Occam's Typewriter
Continuing the theme of gently exercising the writing muscle by composing posts made mostly of pictures, I present here the round-up of what I think are the best photographs that I took in the past year. 2021 has been a …
October | 2021 | Occam's Typewriter
I’ve been catching up with some reading this weekend: a year’s worth of (hard copy) THE issues, picked up now I’m finally able to get back into my department, and Vaxxers – sub-titled The Inside Story of the Oxford Astrazeneca …
03 | November | 2024 | Occam's Typewriter
Posted on3 November 2024by Henry Gee. Robert Harris: Precipice This exponent of the well-researched historical and occasionally alt-history thriller, often set in Nazi Germany (Fatherland) or Ancient Rome (Imperium, Pompeii, etcetera) sometimes steers very close to actual reality, dramatising real events that happened to real people ….
Launch | Occam's Typewriter
Nov 26, 2021 · My latest book A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth has now come out in the US and Canada. Actually, it came out 17 days ago, and it’s available from St Martin’s Press and the proverbial All Good Bookstores, but I haven’t had a moment to carve a word on this until now.It was pipped at the post by versions in Dutch and German; a Spanish edition is now available for preorder; and of ...
December | 2020 | Occam's Typewriter
I made what I think was a smart move at the beginning of 2020. Instead of waiting until the year’s end and then struggling to recall what I thought of the books I had read, I created a Twitter thread of …
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Sep 9, 2019 · On Tuesday evening I was asked by Research Professional News for my views on a new report from think tank UKDayOne, which is calling for the abolition of the Research Excellence Framework, unlovingly known as the REF.. The report is provocative and interesting. It has won loud support from one Dominic Cummings. It’s standfirst promises that a lighter-touch alternative will have multiple ...
Message for my reader | Occam's Typewriter
Jul 10, 2022 · For the longest time I have been meaning to get back to—ugh!—blogging. Regular readers, should any remain, will see that this is the first post of 2022. I haven’t broken any promises with the hiatus and have no excuses to make.
22 | November | 2021 | Occam's Typewriter
Nov 22, 2021 · Last week some of us published a paper trying to improve the way p-values are interpreted by suggesting this be done on a more continuous scale (here’s another link to the paper: hopefully one will go to a readable version). …