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The most interesting post found those past days is probably"Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No" http:// chronicle.com/article/Want-to-Change-Academic/134546/?cid=at …but there were also interesting other things,"What ails us" by James Surowiecki written (almost 10 years ago) http://www.newyorker.com/2003/07/07/030707ta_talk_surowiecki … discovered via @adelaigue inhttp:// econo.free.fr/option=com_content&#38;task=view&#38;id=25&#38;Itemid=35&#38;codefaq=90…"Can You Live Without a Data Scientist?" http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/20_you_live_without_a_data_sc.html … by @tdav in @HarvardBiz via@trevorbass  but why people talking about "data scientist" never mention "statisticians" ? aren't statisticans data scientists ? I though they (we?) were..."Production and reproduction of research work force, effect on innovation and research misconduct" http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v12/n8/full/embor2011142a.html?WT.ec_id=EMBOR-201108Access%20:%20The%20academic%20birth%20rate%20:%20EMBO%20reports …via @collectifpaperaan academic job? http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/28/post-doc-research-job-hunt … "anyone entering the research field should be under no illusion that it takes blood, sweat and tears""The US electoral college explained" http://www.guardian.co.uk/wo12/sep/28/us-electoral-college-explained …why they don't vote directly for a president via @smfrogers"Misrepresentation of Randomized Controlled Trials in Press Releases and News Coverage: A Cohort Study"http://www. plosmedicine.org/artiAdoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001308…"understanding the process of research is invaluable (...) for every citizen who is faced with the important decisions" http://blog.mysciencework.com/%E2%80%9Cscience%E2%80%9D-articles-enter-the-classroom.html …some nice opendata (if you won't take a plane in the next 10 days) http://www.guardian.co.uk/… on @GuardianData's website"The Peak Time for Everything" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444180004578018294057070544-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwNjAyODY3Wj.html … via @Bank_Able @Reddy " at 8 am (...) start your day on a cheery note" on Twitter"Generation Y Is Financially Smarter Than Boomers"http:// blogs.wsj.com/2012/09/28/study-generation-y-is-financially-smarter-than-boomers/ … (but there's no money left)"The 15-hour working week predicted by Keynes may soon be within our grasp – but are we ready for freedom from toil?" http://www.aeonmagazine.com/lir/john-quiggin-keynesian-utopiav1/ …"What About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer?" http://ineteconomics.org/blog/-about-questions-economics-can-t-answer … via @IanikMarcil"Inequality Kills" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/inequality-kills/ … by@NytimesKrugman see also http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-whites-in-us-is-shrinking.html?pagewanted=all …"stochastic mapping of food distribution networks for understanding risks and tracing contaminant pathways"http://www. sandia.gov/CasosEngineering/docs/stochastic%20mapping_7_2011.pdf …"Social media tips for scientists" http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2012/09/28/social-media-tips-for-scientists/ …"how hard is academia?" http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/how-hard-is-academia/ …"Who said economists are dull? Finance students are the most promiscuous on campus"  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209275/Economics-students-promiscuous-campus.html … via @adelaigue"High-Speed Trading Hurts Long-Term Investors"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443931404577551633192136866.html?mod=e2tw … via @bertil_hatt"Why I Agonize About The Zero Bound"http:// economistsview.typepad.com/timduy/2012/09/why-i-agonize-about-the-zero-bound.html … on @EconomistsView's blog"Election heatmap", tell me what you read, I'll tell you who you (might) vote for http://www.amazon.com/gp/election-heatmap/ref=cm_sw_r_tw__d4cyqb05D68ZK/180-1316703-3103135# …"Big Data Blasphemy: Why Sample?" http://smartdatacollective.com/node/47591  "Beers and U.S. politics" http://shortformblog.com/post/32406767497/beer-political-chart … viahttp:// hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/09/the-politics-of-3.php …"How long does it take to afford a beer?"http://www. economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/09/daily-chart-13?fsrc=scn/tw/te/dc/beerandlabour … chepeast place to get a beer? go the U.S. and work for 5min"a wall goes up (...) when you try to make Mr &#38; Mrs Average American Citizen work or think" http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/24/120924fa_fact_lepore?mbid=social_retweet … via @V_Grenier @IanikMarcil"paper on latent class analysis of democracy dummies"http://jackman.stanford.edu/papers/download.php/?i=7 … by Simon Jackman via @politbistro"The welfare state’s a worthy Ponzi scheme" by @JohnKayFThttp://www.ft.com/4db6afd2-064e-11e2-bd29-00144feabdc0.html …"the impossibility of meritocraty"http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2012/09/the-impossibility-of-meritocracy.html … via@adelaigue @bp314"All credit card PIN numbers in the World leaked"http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html … 4 digit codes, first 2 digits (x) and last 2 (y)  on the graph below"The Cost of a Happier Chicken: Who Pays?" http://www.freakonomics.com/the-cost-of-a-happier-chicken-who-pays/ … via @adelaigueou en français, toujours le buzz sur l'étude sur les OGM (je croyais que ca parlait de pesticides, je ne comprends rien à la recherche scientifique)"Mauvais journalisme: la faute à qui?"http://www. sciencepresse.qc.ca/blogue/2012/09/28/mauvais-journalisme-faute … via @sciencepresse"Les dégâts collatéraux d’une 'étude choc' sur les OGM qui fait 'pschitt'" http://www. pseudo-sciences.org/spip.php?article1934 … via @recriweb @olac2012"Faudrait pas que le bon peuple puisse juger de la science concernant les OGM directement" http://toutsepassecommesi.cafe-sciences.org/audrait-pas-que-le-bon-peuple-puisse-juger-de-la-science-concernant-les-ogm-directement-openaccess-not/ …"OGM, pesticides et autres… Comment décrypter une étude scientifique"  http://passeurdesciences.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/09/26/comment-decrypter-une-etude-scientifique/ …via @PasseurSciences @SH_lelabo@TotoroInParissinon, toujours plein d'autres choses sur d'autres sujets plus ou moins anodins,"S'exprimer sur Twitter n'est pas anodin..."http:// lecercle.lesechos.fr/entreprises-marches/high-tech-medias/internet/221154499/twitter-et-e-reputation-quiproquo-impardonna …Le blog de @benoitmelancon est une merveille! aujourd'hui, "crosser" http://oreilletendue.com/de-la-crosse-au-quebec/ … (oui, on a recu beaucoup de courriels -en interne- sur le futur recteur de l'UQAM)"Bye bye banquise" http://owni.fr/2012/09/28/bye-bye-banquise/ … via @owni les données sont sur http://nsidc.org/noaa/g02135_seaice_index … voir aussi http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/…"Remarques et propositions sur les structures de la recherche publique en France" par l'Académie des Sciences  http://www.academie-sciences.fr/rapport/rads0912.pdf …"Jérôme, de la librairie Alphagraph, jette l'éponge" quel dommage !http://www. ouest-france.fr/actu/… Did I miss something ?