Tag Archives: science

To remember myself that science is joy

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

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

metadynamics

I’ve been away in Lausanne, Switzerland, to follow a course on metadynamics. Metadynamics is a so called free energy method: it is an algorithm to get the free energy landscape of a system from a computer simulation of molecules. Without going into the details, in metadynamics you push your system away from the structures it

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