Florida Board of Education members earn a B on science standards, and their spines earn a C in principled decisionmaking
The Florida Board of Education approved science standards with evolution, but if still appending the words “scientific theory of” before the word “evolution.” The department staff earns enormous credit for giving the standards-writing project to a large team of scientists and science teachers, who firmly put evolution in the center of the standards, only to […]
Gorillas split on teaching of evolution in Florida
CAMEROON–The Cross River Antievolution Primate (CRAP) organization announced today that it was splitting from the Western Lowland Coalition Mediating Evolution (WeLCoME) in the controversial topic of science standards in Florida. While it is not clear why western gorillas are arguing about the curriculum standards of a geopolitical entity thousands of miles away, they are clearly […]
On eprints at Harvard and Full Monty open-access
I’m still trying to figure out the consequences of Harvard’s Arts and Science faculty voting last week to push open-access publication of faculty work. This is fundamentally different from the occasional individual boycott of subscription-based journals. Harvard’s faculty move is closer to Congress’s push for a mandate that all grant-funded articles etc. be accessible to […]
Publication stats for EPAA
Logistical chugging along tonight: I’m afraid I didn’t get to any serious manuscript thought in the last few hours, but I did figure out how to analyze about 10 months’ worth of manuscripts, after excluding repeated submissions and other errors: 86 total manuscripts 18 still in review (about 21% of this batch) 55 declined (64% […]
Steady work, if you can do it
Woke up at 5:20 this morning (the usual setting for weekdays), went back to bed for 10 minutes, then up to exercise and shower. Out to a cafe something after six, did some logistical editing tasks, write a disposition e-mail, answered a few e-mails, thought about the future, and now it’s time to head back […]