This period sucks, I’m badly overstressed and my career is at a turning point which I still don’t know how it will turn -all indications seem to be for the “not nicely” but we will see. I have no time (and overall no energies) therefore to post anything really cogent, but I just wanted to …
Category Archives: science
What has changed in science and what must change – I. Rethink the scientific career.
I have been pointed today by my friend and brilliant scientist Giorgio Gilestro to an interesting blog post of his on how science should change. My reaction was “This is really really interesting and raises a lot of fundamental issues; yet I disagree almost entirely.” However 1)it’s really good food for thought and 2)you can’t …
Why did they win?
Why did insects win? The question, to me, is not peregrine. Arthropoda include a lot of moderately to robustly successful terrestrial groups: Arachnida and the classes below subphylum Myriapoda (millipedes, centipedes and siblings) among all others. Yet, imagine a world without millipedes: would you really notice? Imagine a world without arachnids: there would be no …
A call to whistleblowers in geophysics: make Enzo Boschi irrelevant
This blog/site is still very much a thing in progress ; yet I can’t stay silent on what I’ve just read on La Repubblica. For non-Italian speakers: Apparently, prof. Enzo Boschi, head of the Italian Geophysics and Vulcanology Institute, is talking about “not making our data available via Web anymore, because they are used to …
13.04°
let’s welcome the new blog with a double funeral. on one hand francesco cossiga, ex-Italian politician and ex-President of the Republic, is dead. this will make a lot of my readers rejoice, but I am quite saddened by that. Cossiga was, above all, gifted by an absolutely zesty lucid madness, of a theatrical kind. also, …