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Selections from The Scientist’s reading list:
- Computational scientist Peter Coveney hired legal help to challenge a European Commission grant rejection, and won— €5 million (around $5.7 million), Nature reported this month (April 8), noting that such appeals are rarely successful.
- “When it comes to the trillions of microorganisms that inhabit our bodies, bacteria get almost all the attention.” —NPR’s Shots on the human mycobiome
- The Guardian this month (April 7) on nutrition professor John Yudkin’s lonely fight against excess sugar at a time when fat was largely considered dietary enemy number one
- “Publishers, governments, and leading foundations all know the current publishing model has to change. As it is with the oil industry, so it will be with academic publishing: The current model will end; it’s just a matter of when and how.” —Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley in an opinion piece for Wired
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