Sunday, December 13, 2009

When business people think they can run a scientific organisation...

Articles from Nature, ScienceInsider, and The Age newspaper summarise recent problems concerning the strained relationship between the board (chaired by a corporate lawyer) and scientists at the Australian Synchrotron. The International scientific advisory committee has resigned in protest.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Turbulent flows in active matter

The power of toy models and effective theories in describing and understanding emergent phenomena is illustrated by a 2012 study of the tur...