FAIRNESS 2012: FAIR NExt Generation of ScientistS 2012

SeqAnt 2012: Recent Developments in Next-Generation Sequencing Annotation

Inspiring the next generation of physician-scientists.

As academic physician-scientists, one of the most important things we do is mentor young trainee-scientists. There obviously is no one right way to mentor or a set of rules one can follow; it's a very personal matter, and very much depends on one's personality. For much of my career, I gave very little thought as to how I mentored my trainees or to whether I was any good at it. Like many invest...

Engineering the Next Generation of Brain Scientists

New technologies to probe the nervous system are propelling innovation and discovery at blinding speed, but are our trainees prepared to maximize this power? The growing role of engineering in research, such as materials, computing, electronics, and devices, compels us to rethink neuroscience education. Core technology requirements, cross-disciplinary education, open-source resources, and exper...

Professional development session for early career scientists at SITC 2012

The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 2012 Professional Development Session was held as part of the SITC 27th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, on October 24, 2012. The session was designed as a new opportunity for early career investigators to learn about relevant career development topics in a didactic setting.

Finding the Easter eggs hidden by oneself: Why Radicchi and Castellano's (2012) fairness test for citation indicators is not fair

Radicchi and Castellano (2012) suggest a method for assessing the fairness of citation indicators. The idea is simple and quite ingenious. If a set of publications is a representative sample of all publications in certain fields of research, then the top z percent of publications ranked by a fair citation indicator should have the same distribution of fields as the overall sample. For example, ...