Networked Is Slightly Different Than Networking

At Thus Spake Zuska, Suzanne Franks outlines what's being called the age of Networked Science, as opposed to Big Science and Team Science of years past.  She wonders if it will, in the end, be good for scientists. "Call me cynical, but I'm just thinking that an arrangement which saves companies the expense of having to actually 'hire researchers to meet all [their] rapidly evolving scientific needs' cannot possibly be in the best long-term interests of the scientists themselves," she writes, of an article that appeared in this week's The Chronicle of Higher Education.