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Selection of media
reports, interviews and commentaries on probably the most discussed ecological paper of the year 2008 |
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Grim T. 2008: A possible role
of social activity to explain differences in publication output among
ecologists. Oikos 117(4): 484–487. |
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Grim T. 2009: The “beer
vs. science” affair: illuminating drawbacks of current ecology. Web Ecology 9: 24–29. |
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Grim T. 2009: O vědcích a pivech (interview,
in Czech). Živa 57(6): CX–CXI. |
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Grim T. 2009:
Skandál
„pivo vs. věda“: zrcadlo současné ekologii. In: Bryja J., Řehák Z. & Zukal
J. (Eds.): Zoologické dny Brno 2009. Sborník abstraktů z konference 12.-13.
února 2009: 68–69.
Prezentace v PDF (in Czech) |
| Commentaries and related beer-science work | |
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Sheil D., Wunder S., Jansen P.,
Bongers F. & Dudley R. 2008: Hope for Bohemian ecologists – comments on „ A
possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication
output among ecologists?” by Tomáš Grim, Oikos 2008. Web Ecology 8: 103–105. |
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Moya-Larano J. 2008: A break to
moderate drinkers. Web Ecology 8: 106–107. |
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Lortie C. J. 2010: A global comment on scientific publications,
productivity, people, and beer. Scientometrics 84: 539–541. (doi: 10.1007/s11192-009-0077-z) |
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Parker J. N., Lortie C. & Allesina S. (in press): Characterizing a
scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited
scientists in environmental science and ecology.
Scientometrics (on-line). (doi: 10.1007/s11192-010-0234-4) |
| Lithoguru: In Defense of Beer-Drinking Scientists | |
| Lithoguru: In Defense of My Defense of Beer-Drinking Scientists | |
| Lithoguru: More on Beer-Drinking Scientists: A Response to Dr. Grim | |
| Media reports in English (and German:-) | |
The New York Times: For scientists, a beer test shows results as a litmus test (web) (printed version) (March 18, 2008; p. F4) Die Zeit: Amsel, Drossel, Bier und Star (July 31, 2008; p. 32) New Scientist: Beer's effect on citations (web) Feedback (printed version) (March 8, 2008; p. 80) The Scientist: Publishing bias out of the bottle (March 18, 2008) Teleg raph.co.uk: Why beer harms science? (February 18, 2008)The Wall Street Journal: Beer and Birds Don’t Mix in the Czech Republic (April 1, 2008) Null Hypothesis – The Journal of Unlikely Science: Boozy Boffins Publish Less (February 13, 2008) The Prague Post: Who says Czech scientists have a drinking problem? (March 19–25, p. A6) Natural Patriot: I propose a toast — even at the expense of scientific productivity (February 13, 2008) Environmental Graffiti: Beer is Bad for Science (February 19, 2008) EvoPhylo: Beer and Publications (February 12, 2008) Czech Business Weekly: In other news … (February 25, 2008) Respekt: Last week... (March 25–30, 2008; p. 66)
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| Media reports and interviews in Czech | |
Česká televize: Události v regionech (reportáž; 20.3.2008, 19:25, ČT1) Česká televize: Týden v Olomouckém kraji (interview; 22.3.2008, 12:30, ČT24) Česká televize: Zajímavosti z regionů (reportáž o UP Olomouc + interview; 25.1.2009, ČT24) VTM Science: Pivní přemítání (VTM Science 62(5): 28) Lidové noviny: Pivo – nepřítel úspěšného vědce (19.3.2008, s. 17) Právo: Mladý vědec: se spotřebou piva klesá vědecká výkonnost (18.3.2008, s. 7) Respekt: Minulý týden (25.–30.3.2008, s. 66) Respekt - blog: Pivní věda z ptačí perspektivy (20.4.2008) ScienceWORLD: Pivo a kvalita vědecké práce (22.3.2008) Czech Business Weekly: Z dalších zpráv... (25.2.2008) Žurnál UP: Kontroverzní studie: Vědecká práce a pivo nejdou dohromady (4.4.2008, s. 4) NEWSLETTER: Kukaččí vejce v hnízdě české vědy (prosinec 2008: 5–6) Živa: O vědcích a pivech (prosinec 2009)
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| T. Grim (on the left) & with departmental colleague and friend M. Veselý in the field. | |
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| Testing the trade-off between beer consumption and performance in ... anything:-) (Bruzual, Venezuela, 2002) | |
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| In 2002 I had a fruitful stay at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim University, Norway:-) | |
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| A gift from my students - "Let the science be done easily" :-) | |