• Science in the Bel Paese by Massimo Pinto

    Italy has a serious scientific research excellence problem at home. Why there are so few foreign scientists in Italian Labs? Is the Italian academic job ladder closed to foreigners? Something new is happening, just may be, and I feel an urge to report it.

    • Proudly mine

      Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 09:32 UTC

      Dr Rohn’s book and its international readership!

      Last updated: Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 09:32 UTC

      • Comments

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 09:56 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Excellent!

          I should probably point out that I’ve been helping Jenny with some publicity for Experimental Heart. We thought it might be fun to show the international appeal by getting photos of the book near recognizable places… Rome has plenty of those. You know what to do!

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 10:06 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          If anyone coming to CISB09 has a copy of _Experimental Heart, bring it with them and we’ll take a snap on Cromer Pier. My copy wouldn’t do as it’s a pre-publication review copy without the snazzy cover.

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 10:13 UTC
          Jennifer Rohn said:

          Glad it finally arrived! I really hope you enjoy it.
          xxx

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 11:18 UTC
          Massimo Pinto said:

          @Richard: you mean that the studio which I share with other 5 colleagues is not a recognizable place? Okay…
          @Henry: sorry I won’t be there
          @Jen: thank you!

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 11:28 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Coliseum, something like that.

          KTHXBAI

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 21:04 UTC
          Martin Fenner said:

          Richard, what should I do? We don’t have any recognizable places in Hannover, Germany

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 21:13 UTC
          steffi suhr said:

          Martin, I don’t think you meant for that to be funny. Did you?

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 21:25 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Hahahah!

          Anywhere peculiarly Hannoverian will do.

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 21:49 UTC
          Eva Amsen said:

          Oh, I’ll have to do a CN Tower shot. For $25 I’ll even go up it. (It costs that much, if not more.)

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 23:07 UTC
          Cath Ennis said:

          Well, as soon as Amazon.ca actually starts stocking and shipping the book, I can do you a nice harbour / mountain view.

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 - 23:10 UTC
          Eva Amsen said:

          You can buy it from .com! Or directly from CSHL, which (I think) leaves Jenny with more royalties, but I don’t know if they ship to Canada in an affordable manner.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 - 00:15 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          This is brilliant, people. Jenny is going to set something up and we’ll be able to send pix to it, and then I’ll probably organize it from there.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 - 19:43 UTC
          Richard Wintle said:

          Bloody heck, I’d better hurry up and buy the thing. I could have taken a photo of it next to a million-dollar sportscar on Friday.

          Or the CN Tower, one or t’other.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 - 19:44 UTC
          Richard Wintle said:

          Darnit, I really should finish reading the comments before I post. Eva’s beaten me to it. Now I’ll have to go find something else.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 - 19:59 UTC
          Stephen Curry said:

          @Richard – I could have taken a photo of it next to a million-dollar sportscar on Friday.

          Phew!

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 - 20:59 UTC
          Eva Amsen said:

          Yeah, and I already have the book, so I’ll beat you to the tower as well as the comment.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 - 21:05 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          I want to see the photo of you beating him in the tower.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 - 21:47 UTC
          Eva Amsen said:

          That’ll cost you $50 (tower entrance for both of us)

        • Date:
          Friday, 20 Feb 2009 - 17:17 UTC
          Richard Wintle said:

          Much as that might be intriguing, I am intending to meet Eva on more familiar ground (i.e. the place she works, which confusingly is the place I lived for a while).

          The CN Tower is a bit silly, all things considered – although undeniably iconic in appearance. It would make a nice backdrop for Experimental Heart though. I’ll leave Eva to take care of that and consider taking a picture of my copy (once received) propped up next to the half-million-dollar sequencer instead.


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