SCIENCE ADVOCATE IN CHIEF: President Barack Obama chats with entrants Evan Jackson, Alec Jackson, and Caleb Robinson from Flippen Elementary School in McDonough, Georgia, at the 2013 White House Science Fair.WHITE HOUSE/CHUCK KENNEDY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
—President Barack Obama writing in the November issue of Wired about the importance of science innovation (October 12)
—Susannah Gal, Penn State Harrisburg associate dean for research and outreach, on the impact a newly elected president can have on the direction of the US research enterprise (November 1)
—Statistical physicist Roberta Sinatra of Central European University in Budapest who coauthored a recently published Science paper that reported an analysis of more than 500,000 studies across multiple fields and suggested that dumb luck plays a big role in citation impact (November 3)
—X.H.T. Zeng et al., authors of a recently published PLOS Biology paper that analyzed collaboration patterns by considering the publication records of nearly 4,000 faculty members from a variety of scientific disciplines (November 4)
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