[Neurobureau-hubs] Fwd: News on the Slow Science Academy and your Membership

[Daniel Margulies]

I think we could learn something from how the Slow Science movement is
coming together... looks like a sister organization of the Bureau...

Thoughts? Reflections?

Daniel

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jonas Obleser <obleser at cbs.mpg.de>
Date: Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Subject: Fwd: News on the Slow Science Academy and your Membership
To: Peter Zekert <zekert at cbs.mpg.de>, Christina Schröder <
cschroeder at cbs.mpg.de>
Cc: Daniel S Margulies <daniel.margulies at gmail.com>,
bareither at tatwortwissen.de


Lieber Peter (und liebe Christina!),
auch im Nachgang unserer Unterhaltung gestern:

I just wanted to also keep you up-to-date on this “guerilla”, slightly arty
SLOW-SCIENCE.org “academy“ and manifesto I founded/penned a year ago.
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.

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!

Anyhow, just wanted to keep you posted as well.
Best wishes, Jonas


ps. hi Daniel, hi isabelle, I thought you might possibly like this.



Begin forwarded message:

*From: *Jonas Obleser <obleser at cbs.mpg.de>
*Subject: **News on the Slow Science Academy and your Membership*
*Date: *30 July 2011 11:04:35 CEST AM
*Bcc: *Shimon Marom <shimon.marom at gmail.com>, eduardo at soi.city.ac.uk, Jack
Heinemann <jack.heinemann at canterbury.ac.nz>, Alex Gomez-Marin <
agomezmarin at gmail.com>, "Martens P (ICIS)" <
p.martens at maastrichtuniversity.nl>, Aditya Pant <tnapaytida at gmail.com>,
Amanda Wanderley <amandawy.bio at gmail.com>, Marco Colombetti <
colombet at elet.polimi.it>, Stephen Hyde <stephen.hyde at anu.edu.au>, Amanda
Seipel <ahseipel at gmail.com>, weber at bwstiftung.de, Hamilton Varela <
varela at iqsc.usp.br>, Ricardo Oliveira <ricardomo at gmail.com>, Estela Rossetto
<estela_rossetto at yahoo.com.br>, Sabine Righetti <
sabine.righetti at grupofolha.com.br>, Rebecca Rosen <rrosen at theatlantic.com>,
Katja Schneider <Katja.Schneider at med.uni-heidelberg.de>

Dear members, readers, and followers of the “Slow Science manifesto”,

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.
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.

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.
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.

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.

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:

The Slow Science Manifesto as it is featured on our site was the result of a
workshop in Heidelberg in 2010.

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.


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).

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.


Aesthetics of the Academy are purposefully kept lo-tech and use 17th century
typefaces.

Remember, you can always find and print the Manifesto here:
http://slow-science.org/slow-science-manifesto.pdf  and
http://slow-science.org/

For now, let us please use mainly Facebook for now as a tool of
communication:
http://facebook.com/pages/slow-science/119742574718314

Also, the Scientific American and The Atlantic are commenting on us:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-slow-science-movement-must-be-c-
2011-07-29
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07
/the-slow-science-manifesto-we-dont-twitter/242770/

Thanks again for your time and energy on this,
Jonas

(for the Slow Science founding members)







Dr. Jonas Obleser
Auditory Cognition Group
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
(p) +49 (0)341 9940 114
(e) obleser at cbs.mpg.de






Dr. Jonas Obleser
Auditory Cognition Group
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
(p) +49 (0)341 9940 114
(e) obleser at cbs.mpg.de
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