When interviewing for a faculty position, when do you bring up the issue of $$$? Do you bring up the issue of $$$?In every interview I have had, the department chair or some other administrator such as a dean of some sort brought up the topic of money: salary and start-up. I never had to figure out the best time to ask about money; this is the responsibility of the administrators.

What is the most important part of the interview? The talk? The meeting with the chair and/or hiring committee and/or dean? The individual meetings with faculty? The 45 second elevator talk you have with the Famous Professor who is too busy to meet with you or attend your talk? All of the above? Or does none of it really matter because they've already decided and/or the decision will be based on an intangible sense for how well your research specialty/personality fit with the department?Answer: Yes and no.

In 1989, The National Security Archive requested documents from the CIA regarding the Iran-Contra affair. This year, the CIA released them. President Barack Obama promised a new era of transparency and adherence to the Freedom of Information Act, but has he followed through? Yvette Chin, FOIA coordinator for the NSA, tells the story behind the long, long wait for information.

Here are some more random thoughts about interviewing for a faculty position, based on questions from readers. I was hoping for some really strange questions, but I don't mind discussing some of the classic ones:What should you wear to an interview for a faculty position?The answer to this will certainly vary depending on the specific field. There may be some fields in which suit-like garb is the norm, and others in which a person wearing a suit will seem bizarrely dressed. I have three things to say on the issue of Interview Attire:

It's all about access. Find out if the site you can't access is down, or if it's just your computer having the problem.

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Pills Clinical trial guidelines from PhRMA, the big drug industry trade group, go into effect tomorrow. Here are a few interesting details, followed by a big grain of salt: The guidelines basically ban ghostwriting . That’s noteworthy because of reports over the past few years that several big ...PharmaGossip found this 5 days ago on blogs.wsj.com Find more top science news, videos, and blogs on ScienceBlips: Medicine

A survey shows some students break confidentiality of patients on Facebook and YouTube. WebMD Health News

Survey: Medical schools report that students have posted patient info online.

GPS receivers installed to measure the movements of tectonic plates and help you find tacos could find yet another purpose: measuring snow depth.
By analyzing the way the GPS signals are transformed as they travel through snowpack, a team of scientists from the University of Colorado, Boulder, may have found a cheap, easy way to optimize an important variable in climate models.
“It’ll be hard, but it looks pretty good so far,” said Kristine Larson, a GPS specialist at CU, and lead author of a paper on the technique published earlier this month in Geophysical Research Letters.

GPS receivers installed to measure the movements of tectonic plates and help you find tacos could find yet another purpose: measuring snow depth.
By analyzing the way the GPS signals are transformed as they travel through snowpack, a team of scientists from the University of Colorado, Boulder, may have found a cheap, easy way to optimize an important variable in climate models.
“It’ll be hard, but it looks pretty good so far,” said Kristine Larson, a GPS specialist at CU, and lead author of a paper on the technique published earlier this month in Geophysical Research Letters.

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA satellites are amazing examples of technology. The TRMM satellite peers into tropical cyclones and can tell how much rain is falling per hour and where. QuikScat uses microwave technology to measure Ida's surface wind speed. The GOES-12 satellite, operated by NOAA, produces stunning visuals that are now made into movies by NASA. Both of these satellites have provided the latest views of Tropical Storm Ida today.

We invite you to join the My Info Quest collaborative text messaging project which kicked off on July 20, 2009. We have over 60 libraries of all types participating and we would like more to meet our goal of 24/7 coverage. The only requirements are that you staff the desk 2 hours per week, attend online meetings and training, and participate in evaluation activities. The service had approximately 282 questions in August and over 680 in September. My Info Quest uses the Altarama software. For more information on participating libraries, go to the website at http://www.myinfoquest.info.

In the year in which the world celebrates Charles Darwin's bicentennial birthday, Ultimate Holding Company embarks on a once in a lifetime social experiment. With the expert assistance of several prominent conservation charities and the artistry of tattooists from Ink Vs Steel, Ultimate Holding ...The Loom found this 38 hours ago on uhc.org.uk Find more top science news, videos, and blogs on ScienceBlips: Life Science, Charles Darwin

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Lebanese designers Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibr of Bokja have created ten pieces for The Quirico Company featuring vintage furniture covered in antique fabrics. (more…)

Feb 1 - A New York entrepreneur and environmental activist collects millions of liters of used cooking oil from restaurants to make clean-burning biodiesel fuel. Tara Cleary reports.

Feb 1 - A New York entrepreneur and environmental activist collects millions of liters of used cooking oil from restaurants to make clean-burning biodiesel fuel. Tara Cleary reports.

Jan 11 - An Israeli company says its new wave power buoy system can create twenty times more energy than existing technologies with no carbon footprint.

The conformational structure of a molecule can have important effects on its interactions and properties, but studying such effects is made difficult by the challenge of separating different conformers. Their spatial separation has now been achieved using an electric field — allowing the possibility of isomer-specific studies.

Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company will take control of the iconic brand.

LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity firms specializing in turning around ailing companies are preparing to strike a series of deals based more on operational improvement than balance-sheet fixes.

Exercising in a group can be more effective by making things easierTHE enduring image of Sylvester Stallone’s legendary pugilist Rocky Balboa is that of a solitary athlete, braving the elements (and his own demons) to prepare for a fight. Yet according to a new study he might have done better by having a bit of company on his long workouts.Research by Emma Cohen, an anthropologist at Oxford University, suggests that a better model is provided by Hicham El Guerrouj, a Moroccan middle-distance runner who is the current holder of the world 1,500-metres and one-mile records. Before retiring in 2006 Mr El Guerrouj was known for the throngs of training partners that followed him everywhere in Morocco. This was a good strategy because, as Dr Cohen reports in a forthcoming issue of Biology Letters, training in a synchronised group may heighten tolerance for pain. That, in turn, could allow athletes like Mr El Guerrouj to train longer and harder. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Diabetes advocates and a company that makes insulin pumps announced plans on Wednesday to team up to make a so-called artificial pancreas -- a system of pumps and monitors to manage type-1 diabetes.