Honestly Nature, you at least understand that this is misleading…don't you?

This would be funny if it weren’t going to be used, extensively, to defend policies which continue to block the transition and advance of younger scientists. A News bit in Nature overviews a paper [pdf] which reports on the number of publications produced by younger and older scientists. From the abstract:

Those who worry about the aging of scientists usually believe that the younger they are the more creative and productive they will be. Using a large population of 13,680 university professors in Quebec, we show that, while scientific productivity rises sharply between 28 and 40, it increases at a slower pace between 41 and 50 and stabilizes afterward until retirement for the most active researchers. The average scientific impact per paper decreases linearly until 50-55 years old, but the average number of papers in highly cited journals and among highly cited papers rises continuously until retirement. Our results clearly show for the first time the natural history of the scientific productivity of scientists over their entire career and bring to light the fact that researchers over 55 still contribute significantly to the scientific community by producing high impact papers.

EndNote X2 is annoying and the vendor response is maddening!

EndNote and competing bibliographic software packages are an awesome contribution to the scientific enterprise. Let’s just get that straight. I am a huge fan. I’ve run across colleagues as recently as the past 2 years who do not use such products and I absolutely. cannot. believe. they. are. such. Luddites!
Endnote version X2, however, pulls a Microsoft-esque blunder in screwing with one of the fundamental features dear to this user. And they have the nerve to tell others who complained that it is the user who is just not giving this kewl new approach a chance! ‘sclowns…