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Better Science – Be(come) a better scientist

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My goal is to share some tips, tricks and insights that should help you be(come) a better scientist.   

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors.

Lise Meitner

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Lise Meitner ,  born Elise Meitner, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish  physicist  who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element  protactinium  and  nuclear fission .  While working on radioactivity at the  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry  in Berlin, she discovered the  radioactive isotope   protactinium-231  in 1917. In 1938, Meitner and her nephew, the physicist  Otto Robert Frisch ,  discovered nuclear fission . She was praised by  Albert Einstein  as the "German  Marie Curie ".

There's a movement for better posters at science conferences

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There's a movement for better posters at science conferences. But are they really better? And how does poster push relate to the ongoing campaign for open science?

Operations Research: The Science of Better

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Time-starved executives are making bolder decisions with less risk and better outcomes. Their secret: operations research.

There is hope for better science

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A call for better science

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