Vlada’s Point
Vlada Limic closes her mini-series on ways to improve the peer review process. (Since she is taking over as Editor of the IMS Bulletin, Vlada is also ending her time as a contributing editor.) She writes:   Let me start by expanding on the concluding thought from Episode II…

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Contributing Editor Vlada Limic has been thinking about ways in which the peer review process could be improved. She writes: A young postdoc enters a renowned senior professor’s office one day. The master is sighing over a printout of an article, and finally says 1: “I have read this…

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Contributing Editor Vlada Limic has been frustrated by the peer review process: If you are reading this, chances are that peer review is regularly on your mind. It is in fact more than likely that you have recently written or read a peer review report, or discussed some aspect of…

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Contributing Editor Vlada Limic writes the last column in her series about workshops and workshops, and reports on the results of her “learnering” survey, which she announced in the April 2015 issue: I wonder how would you react to the following announcement: “The survey on learnering ran…

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Yes, you read that right. Contributing editor Vlada Limic continues her series of columns on workSHOPS, WORKshops and a neologism: learnering… Workshops (by which I mean workshops) will be organized as long as there is available funding for them. The reader is welcome to ask if this is a…

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