Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Friday, 17 February 2012

We don't need no (nuclear physics) education

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Way back in January 2010, the big political topic in the UK nuclear physics community was the cuts being forced on STFC from above, and how...

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Thursday, 16 February 2012

Where to publish, if not CPC?

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A couple of weeks ago I posted about the campaign against working - for free - for the commercial publisher Elsevier . Since I think there...

Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Teaching in India

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So, I've given my series of four classes on nuclear structure at this postgraduate school in Roorkee. Since it was a school, with the ...

Sunday, 12 February 2012

In India

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I'm sitting in my rather grand suite at the guest house of IIT Roorkee, a rather prestigious science-based University in India. I'...

Monday, 30 January 2012

The Elsevier Backlash

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For some time there has been disquiet in the academic community about the publishing model of many scholarly journals. The issue is basical...

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Friday, 27 January 2012

Overreaction over evacuation

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According to a story in today's Independent it was the spine-chilling fear of an abandoned Tokyo that persuaded the Prime Minister to s...

Monday, 16 January 2012

I Melt the Glass with my Forehead

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I've spent some time this evening watching a documentary with the estimable title "I melt the glass with my forehead" . It...

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