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This was something I sent around to our School's postgraduate students, after being sent the article by Prof. Martin Fey: Schwartz, M.A. (2008) The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of Cell Science121:1771 . This should be essential reading for postgraduate students in any discipline. (It's irrelevant that it's in a ...

Following on the heels of suspect maths journals (notice the self-citation) comes a conference paper accepted for the International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (an IEEE sponsored and refereed conference) which was automatically generated by a software program (SCIGen). Worse still, the fictitious author was selected as ...

As if the US presidential campaign weren't exciting enough, I've recently discovered that Stephen Colbert is running for President in the Marvel Universe. Colbert's run in 'our universe' was limited to the state of South Carolina, where he attempted to run as a Democrat (due to the fact that registering with the Democrats cost ...

One of the most interesting aspects of the EU is its attention to privacy issues and its willingness to take on large corporations (such as Microsoft, who were fined for anti-competitive behaviour).  Here is the latest from the online newsletter EUobserver.com: Global search engine colossus Google has been warned by the EU data ...

A friend of mine brought the news to my attention of Nick Cave being awarded an honorary PhD by Monash University – Nick managed 2 years of his arts degree (actually at the Caulfield Institute of Arts and Technology before it was subsumed by Monash) before giving up and embarking on a career as a musician and sometime author. His contribution? ...

The Wordpress blog ''Stuff White People Like'' has a recent entry ''Graduate School'' related to PhD study - an entertaining read. Not PC, but fun. 

If you don't get why this is funny immediately, then you need to watch more of The Simpsons. (Brought to you by Tama's wacky brain and The Customer Keyboard Generator.)