A colleague mentioned today that the front page of the venerable SPIRES database of High Energy Physics papers is now promoting the new Inspire interface which was announced a few years ago. The website for the current beta phase of the project is http://inspirebeta.net. It is unclear to me whether “Beta” is part of the [...]
Author Archives: Ian
Inspire Beta: New Interface to SPIRES database
Posted in arXiv, Research, Tools Tagged arXiv, bibliography, bibtex, citations, inspire, inspirebeta, journals, spires, tools for academia Leave a comment
Scientists on the march*
On Saturday many bemused tourists wandering around Westminster were treated to the unusual sight of scientists roaming free from their offices and labs to gather in protest at the government’s planned cuts to research funding. The rally was organised by Science is Vital who are also organising a petition and lobby of MPs which I [...]
Posted in Campaign, Research Tagged campaign, Evan Harris, funding, politics, protest, rally, Science Is Vital, Westminster Leave a comment
Science is Vital
As a practising scientist you might expect me to believe that Science is Vital. “He would say that wouldn’t he,” you might say. Objectively speaking though, science research has a large impact on the wealth and success of a country. Even during these times of austerity, most developed countries are investing in science research, anticipating [...]
Posted in Campaign, Research Tagged campaign, Campaigns, crisis, funding, government, petition, rally, Research, Royal Society, scicuts, scienceisvital, scipolicy 1 Comment
Durham UK Cosmo meeting
Durham University, and in particular the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology hosted the annual two-day UK Cosmology meeting this year. There were lots of very interesting talks, and I hope to give a flavour of some of the issues that were mentioned over the course of the meeting. The list of participants and the programme [...]
Posted in Conferences and Meetings Tagged 3-D film, Cosmic Origins, Cosmology, Durham, meeting, Research, Science, talks, twitter, UK Cosmo Leave a comment
ArXiv app for Android
I don’t regularly look up new papers on my phone, preferring the ease of checking them on my desktop at work. However when travelling or attending a conference it can be very handy to be able to quickly pull up some paper you half remember in the middle of a conversation. As an Android user [...]
