Cambridge Core BlogSelecting a Data Repository: Criteria that Matter
We’re asking for your input on criteria for selecting data repositories — Where should I publish my research data? Sometimes there’s an obvious answer to this question.…
Archive for December 2019
Appalachia and Laudato Si’: Developing the Connection between the Poor and the Environment
In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis writes that the poor and the environment are connected. The poor suffer physically from environmental degradation and cry out along with the earth, and those with power must heed their cry. An examination of the Appalachian region and its people reveals that each of these three themes needs some development
Smits wins 2020 Batchelor Prize
The Batchelor Prize for 2020 is awarded to Professor Alexander J Smits, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Understanding the Complexity of Environmental Law
Environmental goals are pursued in increasingly complex legal ways that defy our usual approaches to teaching and researching environmental law in siloes.…
British Journal of Music Education: Whole Class Ensemble Tuition (WCET)
WCET Special Issue Issue 36.3 of the British Journal of Music Education is a special edition, focussing on the Whole Class Ensemble Tuition (WCET) programme in England.…
How collections end: objects, meaning and loss in laboratories and museums
The open access 2019 issue of BJHS Themes addresses the ‘endings’ of scientific collections, telling stories of dispersal, destruction, absorption, re-purposing and repatriation.
The Aeronautical Journal and the ICAS Congress
The Aeronautical Journal is unusual in ‘covering all aspects of aerospace’. This is something of a rarity nowadays, with conferences and journals aiming to attract high-profile experts by maximising specialist content – more ‘bang for the buck’, as the expression goes.…
Deep Carbon – a decade of DCO Research
From diamonds to volcanic degassing to the deep biosphere and more, scientists within the Deep Carbon Observatory have covered a lot of ground since the initiative’s start 10 years ago.…
Cambridge partners with ALPSP for third University Press Redux Conference
This year, Cambridge University Press has the honour of curating and hosting the third biennial University Press Redux Conference, in partnership with The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).…
Let’s go swimming: mermithid-infected earwigs exhibit positive hydrotaxis
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is Let’s go swimming: mermithid-infected earwigs exhibit positive hydrotaxis The term ‘back seat driver’ is used colloquially to describe a passenger in a car who is dissatisfied with the driver’s actions and therefore tries to control or influence them.…