Building stone in Manchester: networks of materiality, circulating matter and the ongoing constitution of the city
Building stone in Manchester: networks of materiality, circulating matter and the ongoing constitution of the city
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曼彻斯特的建筑石材：物质网络、循环物质和城市的持续构成
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T. Edensor
先生——科学要想取得突破，帮助人们活得更长、更健康，就必须具有创造性。先驱者正在被挤出市场。太多的科学家在他们的职业生涯中重复他们的同事和/或竞争对手在他们的研究领域所做的事情，没有新的想法，没有新的概念，没有创造。争夺资助和快速发表（如果可能的话）在具有高影响因子的领先科学期刊上发表)的竞争，可能是这种行为的原因。像最近在英国推广的“实现我们的潜力奖”（ROPA）这样的奖项（Nature 392, 10; 1998），应该由其他地方的政府制定。通过允许资助“风险”项目，它们为科学家提供了进行创造性研究的机会。请让我们在未来的科学领域拥有更多的创造力和更多类似ropa的奖项。
Sir—For science to contribute to breakthroughs to help people to live longer and healthier lives, it has to be creative. Pioneers are being squeezed out. Too many scientists spend their careers repeating what their colleagues and/or competitors do in their field of research, with no new ideas, no new concepts, no creation. The race for grants and rapid publication, if possible in leading scientific journals with a high impact factor, probably account for this behaviour. Awards like the Realizing Our Potential Awards (ROPA), recently extended in the United Kingdom (Nature 392, 10; 1998), should be developed by governments elsewhere. By allowing the funding of ‘risky’projects, they provide scientists with the opportunity to do creative research. Please, let us have more creativity, and more ROPA-like awards, for science in the future.