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Confessions of a Science Librarian
Best Science Books 2009: The Washington Post A nice list from a bunch of categories from the Washington Post, although some of items in the the science section seem strangely unscientific: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou The Age of Wonder:...
December 22, 2009
The Book of Trogool
Tidbits, 22 December 2009 Every time I do a tidbits post, I think to myself, "gosh, that was a lot of tidbits; I'll never fill up the queue again." Every time, I'm wrong. The climate-data scandal staggers on: Gavin Baker has another great summary...
A Blog Around The Clock
What does it mean that a nation is 'Unscientific'? If a publisher offered me a contract to write a book under a title that would be something like "Unscientific America", how would I go about it? I would definitely be SUCH a scientist! But, being such a scientist does...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Best Science Books 2009: Salon One of the five non-fiction books chosen by Salon was a science book. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...
December 21, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...
December 19, 2009
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Best Science Books 2009: Inside Tech A nice list of technology/business books: Googled: The End of the World as we Know it by Ken Auletta Inside Larry & Sergey's Brain by Richard L. Brandt The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein The Accidental Billionares:...
December 18, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...
The Book of Trogool
Authority control, then and now Since the end of the year is a fairly quiet time for my particular professional niche, I've taken the opportunity to do some basic name authority control on author name-strings in the repository. Some basic what on what, now? Welcome...
A Blog Around The Clock
ResearchBlogging.org posts now a part of Article-Level-Metrics at PLoS Two years ago, at the 2008 Science Blogging Conference, Dave Munger introduced to the world a new concept and a new wesbite to support that concept - ResearchBlogging.org. What is that all about? Well, as the media is cuttting science...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Best Science Books 2009: The Independant I've cobbled together this list from three lists from The Independent: Nature & Environment, Biography and History. The Running Sky: A bird-watching life by Tim Dee Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo by Michael McCarthy Edible Seashore: river cottage handbook no....
Applied Statistics
Privacy vs knowledge Wired reports a great new opportunity to make money online by suing internet companies for revealing the data: An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be...
A Blog Around The Clock
New issue of Journal of Science Communication The December 2009 edition of the Journal of Science Communication is now online with some intriguing articles - all Open Access so you can download all the PDFs and read: Control societies and the crisis of science journalism: In a...
A Blog Around The Clock
Help the Obama Administration devise a healthy Open Access policy As many of you, my readers, are interested in Open Access publishing and have given it quite some thought over time, I think you are the right kind of people to contribute to this in a thoughtful and persuasive manner....
December 17, 2009
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Futures thinking and my job in 10 years Thinking about the future is very hard. You'd think I'd know just how hard it is, having engaged in it on numerous occasions during my blogging career and even writing a book about it. But the more I think about...
DrugMonkey
Open Kvetch I am certain I am going to regret this.......
Christina's LIS Rant
Another idea from the scholarly evaluation metrics workshop One thing that kind of bugs me is that people answer the question "what impact has your funding had" with things like "I hired 3 postdocs and 2 support staff." Dr Lane talked about this at the workshop, but to...
Christina's LIS Rant
Radical thought to help solve the metrics question about newspaper pieces One of the open problems in article level metrics is how to automate, quantify, and describe the exposure an article has had in popular science pieces in newspapers and general science magazines. Peter Binfield (PLoS) and Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka. (European Research...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Best Science Books 2009: Time Magazine From Time's Top 10 Non-Fiction books: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos and Annie...
A Blog Around The Clock
Shirky and Rosen, chatting about journalism A nice, thought-provoking interview. Starts with the discussion of Clay Shirky's post Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable and the reactions collected by Jay Rosen and discussed in Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News: Since the clips are set...
Christina's LIS Rant
NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Afternoon 3 stream of consciousness notes from this meeting I attended in DC, Wednesday December 16, 2009 Final panel Oren Beit-Arie (Ex Libris Group), Todd Carpenter (NISO),Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC),Tony Hey (Microsoft Research),Clifford Lynch (CNI),Don Waters (Andrew W. Mellon foundation) introduction from Cliff...
Christina's LIS Rant
NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Afternoon 2 Continuing stream of consciousness notes from this workshop held in DC, Wednesday December 16, 2009 Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka. (European Research Council) - intertwined research funding structures at national and European level. At the national level two main funding modes - institutional...
Christina's LIS Rant
NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Afternoon 1 this continues my stream of consciousness notes from the workshop held in DC, December 16, 2009. Peter Binfield (PLOS) - article level metrics. Not talking about OA, not talking about journal level. Journal is just packaging, and shouldn't necessarily judge...
Christina's LIS Rant
NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Morning 2 Continuing my stream of consciousness notes from this meeting in DC, Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Jevin D West (U Washington, Eigenfactor) - biology and bibliometrics. biology has a lot of problems that are studied looking at networks. From ecosystems to...
Christina's LIS Rant
NSF Workshop on Scholarly Evaluation Metrics – Morning 1 I attended this one-day workshop in DC on Wednesday, December 16, 2009. These are stream of consciousness notes. Herbert Van de Sompel (LANL) - intro - Lots of metrics: some accepted in some areas and not others, some widely available...
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Synthetic Biology
Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
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