I think we could learn something from how the Slow Science movement is coming together... looks like a sister organization of the Bureau...<br><br>Thoughts? Reflections?<br><br>Daniel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonas Obleser</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:obleser@cbs.mpg.de">obleser@cbs.mpg.de</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:17 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: News on the Slow Science Academy and your Membership<br>
To: Peter Zekert <<a href="mailto:zekert@cbs.mpg.de">zekert@cbs.mpg.de</a>>, Christina Schröder <<a href="mailto:cschroeder@cbs.mpg.de">cschroeder@cbs.mpg.de</a>><br>Cc: Daniel S Margulies <<a href="mailto:daniel.margulies@gmail.com">daniel.margulies@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:bareither@tatwortwissen.de">bareither@tatwortwissen.de</a><br>
<br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Lieber Peter (und liebe Christina!),<div>auch im Nachgang unserer Unterhaltung gestern:</div><div><div><br></div><div>I just wanted to also keep you up-to-date on this “guerilla”, slightly arty <a href="http://SLOW-SCIENCE.org" target="_blank">SLOW-SCIENCE.org</a> “academy“ and manifesto I founded/penned a year ago.</div>
<div>People are really taking this serious, it seems, and a lot of people, mainly from BRAZIL, keep emailing me (or rather, “the academy“) on this, so now I had to finally react to this. See below.</div><div><br></div><div>
Also, the whole thing has been picked up by the Atlantic and the Scientific American. If only I would manage that once with my real science!</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, just wanted to keep you posted as well.</div><div>
Best wishes, Jonas</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>ps. hi Daniel, hi isabelle, I thought you might possibly like this.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">Jonas Obleser <<a href="mailto:obleser@cbs.mpg.de" target="_blank">obleser@cbs.mpg.de</a>><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>News on the Slow Science Academy and your Membership</b><br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">30 July <a href="tel:2011%2011" value="+49201111" target="_blank">2011 11</a>:04:35 CEST AM<br>
</span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium"><b>Bcc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';font-size:medium">Shimon Marom <<a href="mailto:shimon.marom@gmail.com" target="_blank">shimon.marom@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:eduardo@soi.city.ac.uk" target="_blank">eduardo@soi.city.ac.uk</a>, Jack Heinemann <<a href="mailto:jack.heinemann@canterbury.ac.nz" target="_blank">jack.heinemann@canterbury.ac.nz</a>>, Alex Gomez-Marin <<a href="mailto:agomezmarin@gmail.com" target="_blank">agomezmarin@gmail.com</a>>, "Martens P (ICIS)" <<a href="mailto:p.martens@maastrichtuniversity.nl" target="_blank">p.martens@maastrichtuniversity.nl</a>>, Aditya Pant <<a href="mailto:tnapaytida@gmail.com" target="_blank">tnapaytida@gmail.com</a>>, Amanda Wanderley <<a href="mailto:amandawy.bio@gmail.com" target="_blank">amandawy.bio@gmail.com</a>>, Marco Colombetti <<a href="mailto:colombet@elet.polimi.it" target="_blank">colombet@elet.polimi.it</a>>, Stephen Hyde <<a href="mailto:stephen.hyde@anu.edu.au" target="_blank">stephen.hyde@anu.edu.au</a>>, Amanda Seipel <<a href="mailto:ahseipel@gmail.com" target="_blank">ahseipel@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:weber@bwstiftung.de" target="_blank">weber@bwstiftung.de</a>, Hamilton Varela <<a href="mailto:varela@iqsc.usp.br" target="_blank">varela@iqsc.usp.br</a>>, Ricardo Oliveira <<a href="mailto:ricardomo@gmail.com" target="_blank">ricardomo@gmail.com</a>>, Estela Rossetto <<a href="mailto:estela_rossetto@yahoo.com.br" target="_blank">estela_rossetto@yahoo.com.br</a>>, Sabine Righetti <<a href="mailto:sabine.righetti@grupofolha.com.br" target="_blank">sabine.righetti@grupofolha.com.br</a>>, Rebecca Rosen <<a href="mailto:rrosen@theatlantic.com" target="_blank">rrosen@theatlantic.com</a>>, Katja Schneider <<a href="mailto:Katja.Schneider@med.uni-heidelberg.de" target="_blank">Katja.Schneider@med.uni-heidelberg.de</a>><br>
</span></div><br><div>Dear members, readers, and followers of the “Slow Science manifesto”,<br><br>I can only apologise on how long it took me to put this email together. It’s probably me taking the “slow” in “slow science” too seriously.<br>
On a more serious note: We here at the Slow Science Academy in Leipzig/Berlin are overwhelmed by your resonance to the Manifesto and the ideas it is putting forward.<br><br>It may sound a bit arty or situationist, but I would like to let you know that you are by now members of the Academy.<br>
Whoever has read and agreed to the manifesto, and whoever maybe has printed it out and put it up on their department’s hallway should consider themselves a member of the Academy.<br><br>I would like to think that what resonated with (most of) you was the idea to (i) be and remain an active scientist who in general agrees with the system and plays along (i.e., who writes grants, publishes papers, and even talks to the media) but (ii) to also be able to criticise and to reflect on this system from within and look for potential remedying effects in a slower, “low-pass-filtered“ undercurrent to the hectic, output-oriented science life.<br>
<br>A slight bit more of background for you or your colleagues who might be warming to the ideas alluded to in the slow science manifesto: <br><br><blockquote type="cite">The Slow Science Manifesto as it is featured on our site was the result of a workshop in Heidelberg in 2010.<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It has been written by a “guerilla” group of mainly neuroscientists, who at the same time enjoy their work and see part of their (future) difficulties in that work arising from the overly output- and media/public-oriented current research schemes.<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The “slow science” movement is of course not only fostered by this academy but also by others around the globe (Interestingly, the Academy has gotten most of its new members from South America since the manifesto has been on line).<br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You could even say that we in this particular group of “slow scientists” have taken a particularly arty and situationist approach: If you want to be a member of the academy, you are! there is no formal way of becoming a member. Printing out the manifesto and mounting it on the blackboard of your department makes you an activist.<br>
</blockquote><br>Aesthetics of the Academy are purposefully kept lo-tech and use 17th century typefaces.<br><br>Remember, you can always find and print the Manifesto here:<br><a href="http://slow-science.org/slow-science-manifesto.pdf" target="_blank">http://slow-science.org/slow-science-manifesto.pdf</a> and<br>
<a href="http://slow-science.org/" target="_blank">http://slow-science.org/</a> <br><br>For now, let us please use mainly Facebook for now as a tool of communication:<br><a href="http://facebook.com/pages/slow-science/119742574718314" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/pages/slow-science/119742574718314</a><br>
<br>Also, the Scientific American and The Atlantic are commenting on us:<br><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-slow-science-movement-must-be-c-" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-slow-science-movement-must-be-c-</a><a href="tel:2011-07-29" value="+4920110729" target="_blank">2011-07-29</a><br>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/</a><a href="tel:2011%2F07" value="+49201107" target="_blank">2011/07</a>/the-slow-science-manifesto-we-dont-twitter/<a href="tel:242770" value="+49242770" target="_blank">242770</a>/<br>
<br>Thanks again for your time and energy on this,<br>Jonas<br><br>(for the Slow Science founding members)<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Dr. Jonas Obleser<br>Auditory Cognition Group<br>Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences<br>
Leipzig, Germany<br>(p) <a href="tel:%2B49%20%280%29341%209940%20114" value="+493419940114" target="_blank">+49 (0)341 9940 114</a><br>(e) <a href="mailto:obleser@cbs.mpg.de" target="_blank">obleser@cbs.mpg.de</a><br><br>
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