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SUMMARY:Scientific editing\, why bother! - Dr. Chris Surridge
DTSTART:20140122T190000Z
DTEND:20140122T203000Z
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CONTACT:Isabel Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:Professor Randy Schekman\, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physi
 ology or Medicine in 2013\, has said that high profile scientific journals
 \, and the professional editors who work for them\, are fashion obsessed l
 uxuries supporting a system of distorting incentives as harmful to science
  as the bonus culture has been to banking. Dr Chris Surridge has worked in
  this ‘Sodom and Gommorrha’ for 20 years\, as an editor on several jou
 rnals including Nature and PLOS ONE. He sees professional editors as champ
 ions of innovation and the reason why peer review isn't more riddled with 
 bias and cronyism. In this talk he will give an insider’s view of what t
 he role of a scientific editor actually is.\n
LOCATION:Lloyd Room\, Christ's College
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