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Our mission is to give the people a voice who are working on making the world better using evidence. With the twitter rocur account @SfPRocur we simply hand over the mic!

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October 23 - 28: Open Science Week with Gwen Frank - @g_fra
November 06 - 11: - open -
November 13 - 18: Mathis Riehle - @morenorse
November 20 - 25: - open -
November 27 - December 02: Cleyde Helena - @Doctor_PMS
December 04 - 09: - open -
December 11 - 16: - open -

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October 23 – 28: Open Science Week with Gwen Frank – @g_fra

Gwen Frank has been a curator, before. This week, she returns to report from the Open Access Week! The Open Access Week is an event series by OpenAIRE and FOSTER, who are giving webinars and tutorials all week long! Check out the whole program for the Open Science Week! Gwen Franck is a ‘Jack of […] The post October 23 –...
11: Genetically Modified Crops and the European Union – with Hélène Pidon

Plant geneticists are not happy with the European judgement on gene editing Dr. Hélène Pidon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research. She searches for genes that give plants resistance to diseases. She wants to use these genes to fortify cultivated Barley against these diseases, and thus […] The post 11: Genetically Modified...
SfProcur Curator October 9 – 14: Valerie Bentivegna – @vbentii

Valerie Bentivegna studied bioscience engineering, and almost finished her PhD in cancer research. Born in the USA, she grew up in Belgium and studied in France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Scotland. She believes that policies should be science based, and that science is important for the advancement of society. Scientists should get off of their […] The post SfProcur Curator October...
SfProcur Curator September 25-30: Alex Fitzpatrick – @ArchaeologyFitz

Alex Fitzpatrick, MSc FSA Scot, is a PhD student in zooarchaeology. She studies the animal remains from the Covesea Caves (“The Covesea Caves Project”), a series of later prehistoric sites in Scotland. These sites may be places of funerary and ritual importance. She is further interested in science communication, specifically with the general public. Her […] The post SfProcur Curator September...
We are on Patreon! – and other announcements.

Just some announcements this time In contrast to what was promised in the last podcast episode, we don’t have a full question and answer episode this time. I hope this will not happen too often, in future. Dennis is a freelancer now. First thing is that I quit my postdoctoral fellowship to become a freelancer. […] The post We are on...
9: The Journal Impact Factor: how (not) to evaluate researchers – with Björn Brembs

What is the Journal Impact Factor? The Journal Impact Factor is widely used as a tool to evaluate studies, and researchers. It supposedly measures the quality of a journal by scoring how many citations an average article in this journal achieves. Committees making hiring and funding decisions use the ‘JIF’ as an approximation for the […] The post 9: The Journal...

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#openaccessweek2018 starts today! #openaire_eu and @fosterscience planned a full week with training tracks on #H2020 policies, #RDM #FAIRdata and legal aspects of #data sharing, #OpenScience policies and our #services. Full schedule https://t.co/lBWiWL0Gut

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Amy Harmon@amy_harmon·

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1. On Friday the @GeneticsSociety denounced the new wave of attempts to legitimize the political ideology of white supremacy with claims of genetic racial distinctions. Nice to see this acknowledgement of the troubling phenomenon I recently reported on. https://t.co/mIeYqo1sEy

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