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Language Log » Straw men and Bee Science
"Let me start by saying that there's a way to take all this that makes it entirely correct. The key motive of science is explanation, and it's often essential to abstract away from the complexities of raw observation, and so on. I took courses from Chomsky as an undergraduate and a graduate student, and I'm grateful for what I learned from him, and for the eminently fair way that he always treated me. But increasingly, it seems to me, he has been elevating his personal distaste for the complexities of the real world into a systematic philosophy. To the extent that others accept these views, it excludes them from participation in (what I think are) the most promising and exciting current directions in the sciences of speech and language."
Noam-Chomsky  theory-and-practice-sitting-in-a-tree  bias  science  learning-from-data 
june 2011 by Vaguery
Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: "I Don't Think We Can Survive This Winter" | Fast Company
""They told me that EPA scientists had reviewed the originally lifecycle study and determined it wasn't scientifically sound, and I asked if it had been documented, if there was a hard copy," he says, "The [employee] said yes, and I asked if I could get a copy." And just like that, he had the proof he needed that the EPA had overlooked something that could be killing America's bees."
astroturf  corporatism  pesticides  ecology  science  open-science  lawsuit 
december 2010 by Vaguery
[0912.1567] Quantifying the Ease of Scientific Discovery
"It has long been known that scientific output proceeds on an exponential increase, or more properly, a logistic growth curve. The interplay between effort and discovery is clear, and the nature of the functional form has been thought to be due to many changes in the scientific process over time. Here I show a quantitative method for examining the ease of scientific progress, another necessary component in understanding scientific discovery. Using examples from three different scientific disciplines - mammalian species, chemical elements, and minor planets - I find the ease of discovery to conform to an exponential decay. In addition, I show how the pace of scientific discovery can be best understood as the outcome of both scientific output and ease of discovery."
science  arrival-times  statistics  innovation  empirical-economics  applicable-to-genetic-programming  metering 
may 2010 by Vaguery
Computational Complexity: Is Complexity Math or Science?
"Computational Complexity studies the power and limitations of efficient computation. So is efficient computation purely an abstract mathematical object or is it trying to model a real world phenomenon? I would argue the latter. Efficient computation occurs not just in computers but in biological systems, physical systems, chemical systems, economic systems and much more. Physics focuses on the "what", computational complexity on the "how"."
computational-complexity  false-dichotomies  mathematics  science  self-definition  complexity  algorithms  pragmatics-is-hidden-from-people-doing-it 
may 2010 by Vaguery
zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » Epistemology is More Important than Politics
"Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of because we are all, in varying degrees, ignorant about many things. The important choice as individuals and as a society is adopting an epistemology of rational-scientific-empiricism that, if steadily applied, allows us to chip away at our ignorance and become aware of our errors and solve problems. On the other hand, adopting a posture of belligerent, stubborn, defense of our own ignorance by evading facts, logic and the conclusions drawn from the evidence of experience is the road to certain disaster."
public-policy  ignorance  anti-intellectualism  science  science-policy  TED 
april 2010 by Vaguery
[1003.6087] "How many zombies do you know?" Using indirect survey methods to measure alien attacks and outbreaks of the undead
"We originally wrote this article in Word, but then we converted it to Latex to make it look more like science."
statistics  epidemiology  public-policy  SCIENCE  polling  social-sciences  go-for-the-header 
april 2010 by Vaguery
BaRf: Bioinformatics aggregated RSS feeds
"BaRf stands for "Bioinformatics aggregated RSS feeds". It provides RSS feeds of titles and abstracts of the most recent papers published by journals that may be of relevance for people involved in Bioinformatics. We don't claim this list is complete - if you have suggestions for journals that should be added (and appear in PubMed) please let us know. The list of currently available journals along with the RSS feed XML links can be found on the right of the page."
rss  science  academic-culture  publishing  journals  aggregation 
march 2010 by Vaguery
Finding Ada
"Please join us on March 24 for Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.
Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do. It doesn’t matter how new or old your blog is, what gender you are, what language you blog in, or what you normally blog about – everyone is invited. Just sign the pledge below (click ‘pledge’ after you have completed the reCaptcha) and publish your blog post any time on Wednesday 24th March 2010."
via:mcphee  blogging  mass-action  gender  social-engineering  history  science  technology  writing  call-to-action 
march 2010 by Vaguery
A ‘Lowprofit’ Future for Science Journalism? « Thoughts on…
"But how do you present that disclosure? A link in each web article that jumps to a spreadsheet of donors and dollar signs, and let the reader judge? Conversely, many people trust NPR and PBS as a news source, but are satisfied by the simple roll call of sponsors and slogans.

So how do we present this information and context honestly and tactfully? It reminds me of a discussion at ScienceOnline2010 promoting fact-checking policy disclosures. What if you could only afford to fact-check 10% of your reporters’ articles? Does that disclosure give your readers more or less confidence in your service?"
science  writing  journalism  business-model  L3C  disclosure  conflict-of-interest 
february 2010 by Vaguery
Civility and Incivility, Truth and Fiction at #scio10
"Each of the presenters gave a nice, thoughtful, 5-minute talk about their views on the issue, but what everyone was waiting for was the fireworks when open discussion began. For a while the discussion was tame enough, with everyone exchanging platitudes about how they view the issues. But then things got a LOT more heated...."
social-norms  science  academic-culture  online  ironism-FAIL  discourse  argument  personal-brand  disintermediation-in-action 
january 2010 by Vaguery
[0911.0454] The Financial Bubble Experiment: advanced diagnostics and forecasts of bubble terminations
"We continue this protocol until the future date (1 May 2010) at which time we upload our final version of the master document. For this final version, we include the URL of a web site where the .pdf documents of all of our past forecasts can be downloaded and independently checked for consistent MD5 and SHA-2 hashes. For convenience, we will include a summary of all of our forecasts in this final document."
prediction  economics  financial-crisis  finance  science  open-science  competition  public-policy 
december 2009 by Vaguery
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded) » Because As We All Know, The Green Party Runs the World.
"Science doesn’t work despite scientists being asses. Science works, to at least some extent, because scientists are asses. Bickering and backstabbing are essential elements of the process. Haven’t any of these guys ever heard of “peer review”?
There’s this myth in wide circulation: rational, emotionless Vulcans in white coats, plumbing the secrets of the universe, their Scientific Methods unsullied by bias or emotionalism. Most people know it’s a myth, of course; they subscribe to a more nuanced view in which scientists are as petty and vain and human as anyone (and as egotistical as any therapist or financier), people who use scientific methodology to tamp down their human imperfections and manage some approximation of objectivity."
science  academic-culture  cultural-norms  cultural-assumptions  mythology  logic  academia 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science? : Common Knowledge
"Open source, if we view it through a different lens, is really more about a distributed methodology for software development. The burden of creation is widely distributed across a massive community with more-or-less equal access to tools and systems. In this context, the role of the legal tool is more akin to an enzyme. It was an essential piece of a puzzle, but it was not the only piece. In fact, without the rest of the infrastructure (connectivity, tools, and people) the legal tool on its own would not have led us to GNU/Linux."
openness  distributed  crowdsourcing  science  science2.0  community  collaboration  infrastructure  academia  academic-culture 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Stitching science together : Article : Nature
"Solving the current problems in science communication requires the intervention of strong companies such as Google. But it will take more than technical advances to provoke scientists into taking full advantage of the web. We need pressure, and perhaps compulsion, from journals and funders to raise publishing standards to the new level made possible by such tools. Google Wave may not be, indeed is probably not, the whole answer. But it points the way to tools that build records and reproducibility into every step. And that has to be good for science."
communication  scientific-computing  google-wave  collaboration  science  tools  science2.0  academic-culture  publishing 
october 2009 by Vaguery
Edge: ECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE By Douglas Rushkoff
"We must stop perpetuating the fiction that existence itself is dictated by the immutable laws of economics. These so-called laws are, in actuality, the economic mechanisms of 13th Century monarchs. Some of us analyzing digital culture and its impact on business must reveal economics as the artificial construction it really is. Although it may be subjected to the scientific method and mathematical scrutiny, it is not a natural science; it is game theory, with a set of underlying assumptions that have little to do with anything resembling genetics, neurology, evolution, or natural systems."
economics  economicS-reform  received-wisdom  history  cultural-assumptions  science  psychology  social-psychology  academia  capitalism  money  models 
september 2009 by Vaguery
American Science & Surplus : Jarvis likes - Jarvis Says You Need...
surplus  makers  supplies  hobbies  engineering  magnets  throwies  science  amateurism 
june 2009 by Vaguery
PHD Comics: Science News Cycle
science  media  academia  communication  it's-more-complicated-than-you-think 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Muck and Mystery: Amateur Science
"Most of the ag trials that I have read about seem woefully incomplete. They seldom do a competent job of characterizing initial conditions, and seldom do a complete analysis of the interventions they try. For example, they may amend soil with manure or compost, but don't have an accurate analysis of the materials applied, as if all manure or compost was the same.

Use of a SRB for trials could make the trials more useful, but offering biochar testing services might be even better. It would complicate subsequent cross-trial comparison and analysis, but would also yield information about the value of various char formulations. All of the trials would be improved by the use of competent testing to characterize soils, water and even seeds. Records of local micro-climates during the test period would be of value too. Not all places are the same and not all years are the same."
agriculture  soil  sustainability  amateurism  science  inquiry  experiment  open-access  crowdsourcing 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Luis von Blog: Academic Publications 2.0
"Can a combination of a wiki, karma, and a voting method like reddit or digg substitute the current system of academic publication?"

[A: yes]
academia  academic-culture  credentials  citation  publishing  collaboration  science  research  writing  web2.0 
april 2009 by Vaguery
Green is Good : software, science, etc
"Thanks to O'Reilly and the RailsConf organisers, we're introducing ActiveResearch, an extended satellite meeting at this year's RailsConf in Las Vegas. ActiveResearch is a great opportunity to meet and greet others working with Ruby and Rails in a scientific or technology discipline. We'll have some special guest speakers, a series of more informal lightning talks, finishing things up with a round table discussion of the state of the art, and some drinks and nibbles."
Ruby  Rails  science  scientific-computing  conferences 
march 2009 by Vaguery
ghetto of our mind: Why it's ok to feel stupid - especially in Science
"I was amazed that the Journal of Cell Science has the wherewithal to publish an essay like this. Kudos to the author of the essay and the editors of the journal. "
science  self-image  learning-by-doing  academia  cultural-norms  article  stupidity  why-we-are-not-cowboys 
march 2009 by Vaguery
EARTH Magazine: Rewriting rivers: What it means for river restoration
"But what if the underlying basis for the model is wrong? That is the message of Merritts and Walters’ Science article. It “was like a bomb, in a good way,” says Frank Pazzaglia, a geology professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. Earlier generations of geomorphologists had recognized the widespread nature of legacy sediments but had attributed them solely to high post-settlement erosion, he says. “More recent workers had focused on the processes, such as how does sediment move, and less on the history. Now we have both pieces. Furthermore, by adding the hard data on milldams, Merritts and Walter have made this legacy better understood.”"
human  ecology  manmade-environment  dams  watershed  science  geology  reclamation  restoration  modeling 
march 2009 by Vaguery
More statin madness | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
"Don’t fall for the false promise of this or any other version of an observational study. These kinds of studies do not prove causality. Nor do they prove that a drug regimen works. The patients in this study who religiously took their statins had better all-cause mortality than those who didn’t. But, as we saw above, adherers always have better all-cause mortality than non-adherers. In this case, was it that the adherers lived longer or was it that statins conferred some sort of benefit. We can’t tell. But we do know that in the real studies, the randomized control trials, statins didn’t do squat, so my vote would be that what we’re seeing here is an adherer effect and not a statin effect."
medicine  experimentation  statistics  marketing  science  evidence  more-marketing 
march 2009 by Vaguery
All we want are the facts, ma'am
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
"What are you doing?", asked Minsky.
"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe," Sussman replied.
"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said.
Minsky shut his eyes.
"Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher.
"So that the room will be empty."
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
via:arthegall  via:cshalizi  science  models  modeling  statistics  learning-from-data  pattern-discovery  hubris  hyperbole  Chris-Anderson  that-Greek-dude-with-the-wings-that-melted 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Charles Stross book event — Crooked Timber
Charles-Stross  economics  science  politics  literature  books 
january 2009 by Vaguery
myGrid » What is a workflow?
"In a scientific context what does this mean? The overall project referred to is your analysis. The activities are simple operations within your analysis. All these operations have a certain number of inputs and outputs. In the case of fetching a DNA sequence, an input may be an identifier of the sequence, whilst the output is a string representing the nucleotide sequence represented by this identifier.
The triggering of activities by other activities are where an operation feeds data into a subsequent operation. For example, the ‘fetch sequence’ operation may feed its output (the string containing sequence ‘ACTG’) into a ‘transcribe’ operation. This would subsequently change the DNA sequence into an RNA sequence. We would then have a simple workflow with one operation, and a link, which looks something like the following:..."
open-science  science  collaboration  modeling  work  communication  formalization 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Main Page - myExperiment
science  web2.0  experiment  wiki  workflow  collaboration  modeling 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
"There is increasing concern about the disappearance of technical knowledge from the public domain, both on grounds that is presents a security danger and because it is economically valuable "Intellectual Property". I argue that this development is not anomalous at all but a great historic trend tied to our transition to the information age. We are in the process of losing a human right that all of us thought we had but actually didn't--the right to learn things we can and better ourselves economically from what we learn. Increasingly, figuring things our for yourself will become theft and terrorism. Increasingly, reason itself will become a crime."
programming  science  hacking  computer-science  presentation  intellectual-property  terrorism  proscription  risk 
january 2009 by Vaguery
Paul Kedrosky: Lord Kelvin and Being Usefully Wrong
"Kelvin did not believe that heavier-than-air flying machines were possible and he regarded X-rays as a hoax. Kelvin’s ingenuity was manifested even in cases where his overall predictions were wrong. He gave a lecture on the state of physics at the turn of the twentieth century, and - not unlike Hilbert’s famous lectures in mathematics - claimed that physics was nearly complete and all problems would soon be settled. He mentioned, however, “two clouds on the horizon,” the unexpected behavior of ether in the Michelson-Morley experiment and the problem of the spectrum of the black body radiation. His genius as a physicist was manifested by the fact that of all the scores of open problems in physics present at the time (as there always are), he pinpointed the two problems that subsequently led to revolutions: the ether problem led to relativity, and black body radiation to quantum theory."
innovation  science  chance-favors-the-prepared-mind  generalism  specialism 
january 2009 by Vaguery
BOINC
grid-computing  volunteerism  crowdsourcing  computation  collaboration  programming  development  community  science  research  tools  activism  networking  distributed  opensource 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Steamboats Are Ruining Everything: A big question about the Templeton Foundation
"I'd be curious to know how you folks at the Templeton Foundation reconcile the high rhetoric displayed here with the rather low and brutal practice of taking a civil right away from a minority group."
political-activism  conservatism  religion  science  Christianity  Templeton  boycott 
november 2008 by Vaguery
The “predict flu using search” study you didn’t hear about: Oddhead Blog: Prediction Markets, Gambling, Electronic Commerce, Artificial Intelligence: David Pennock: Yahoo! Research
"in the world of science, being first means a great deal and can be the determining factor in whether a study gets published. The truth is, although the efforts were independent, ours was published first — and Clinical Infectious Diseases scooped Nature — a decent consolation prize amid the go-google din."
via:arthegall  forcshalizi  science  epidemiology  publication  MSM  mainstream  media  Google-shadow  citation  marketing  academia 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Opinion - My View: What's so wasteful about funding discovery? - sacbee.com
"Not all science needs to have a purpose. The nature of humans is that, sometimes, they simply want to know. Everything else is just a bonus.

Srinivasa Ramanujan and Albert Einstein, the two scientific geniuses of the 20th century, made their earliest discoveries while working as clerks, not as professors working on taxpayer-funded projects; but why risk, in the 21st century, that some diamond might remain forever unearthed for want of a government grant?"
science  politics  academia  basic-science  funding  government  grants  anti-intellectualism  open-science  cultural-norms 
october 2008 by Vaguery
'Cosmic ghost' discovered by volunteer astronomer
crowdmining  crowdsourcing  galaxy-zoo  science  observation  classification  innovation 
august 2008 by Vaguery
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
science  science!  Science!!  MATHEMATICS  cultural-norms  academia  research 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Press Release: Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing
You mean all my old Traveller maps are wrong now?
astronomy  galaxy  science  geography 
june 2008 by Vaguery
Target support for young scientists, says panel/Mote
"If America is to maintain its scientific and technological edge, it needs to inspire and support its most talented scientists and engineers through the early stages of their careers..."
science  pedagogy  public-policy  funding  academia  innovation  economics  engineering  philanthropy 
june 2008 by Vaguery
The Quantified Self
personalized-science  insomnia  data-driven  science  contingent  hypotheses 
june 2008 by Vaguery
SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software
via:nequitans  science  computing  mathematics  open-source  scicomp  platform  mma  Python 
may 2008 by Vaguery
Emergent Phenomenon Research Group: EmergentPhenomena
loving "GOD LOVES CONWAY BUT HATES WOLFRAM". Thank you!
emergence  science  culture  tribes 
april 2008 by Vaguery
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
academia  science  engineering  philosophy  journals 
march 2008 by Vaguery
Open Science, Open Seminars « UK Web Focus
openness  collaboration  science  pedagogy  conversation  digitization  distribution  academia  social-norms 
march 2008 by Vaguery
Overcoming Bias: Rationality Quotes 11
quotes  philosophy  science  learning  psychology  amusing 
march 2008 by Vaguery
Click opera - A post-Blink essentialist, looking at Asian space
"Reality," said Willem de Kooning, "is a slipping glimpse"
psychology  generalism  models  mental-models  cultural-norms  anthropology  artist  science  grokking 
march 2008 by Vaguery
Unruled Notebook » Blog Archive » Guilty of Plagiarizing Seventy Research Papers
The argument that early sharing of research will "let people steal your ideas" is put paid by the simple fact that PEOPLE WILL STEAL THEM ANYWAY. Instead, openness brings plagiarism to light faster.
academia  cultural-norms  social-norms  publishing  plagiarism  ethics  science 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Scholarly Research Exchange
via Peter Suber
openness  open-access  open-science  publishing  peer-review  academia  science  collaboration  community 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Thomas Nackid Art & Design index
artist  illustration  portfolio  science  scientific-illustration  visualization  graphic-design  hey-i-know-this-dude 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Seth’s blog » Blog Archive » How to Be Wrong (continued)
bias  research  explanation  data  exploration  exploitation  models  science  worldview 
february 2008 by Vaguery
The Feyerabend Project
"...[G]iven any rule, however ‘fundamental’ or ‘necessary’ for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite."
Feyerabend  philosophy  science  philosophy-of-science  method  methodologies  design  creativity  models 
february 2008 by Vaguery
Green Gabbro : Why I Don't Use the BPR3 Icon
via:tsuomela  via:cshalizi  blogging  science  academia  personal-brand  professionalism  publishing  can't-we-have-a-revolution-once-that's-not-run-by-boring-people-trying-to-replace-boring-people? 
february 2008 by Vaguery
NASA - Surprises from Mercury
So it begins. We know where the Shadows lie.
NASA  Mercury  planetology  science  astronomy  space-exploration  Babylon-5 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Islamic science and the long siesta Robert Irwin TLS
history  science  review  books  Islam  provincialism  orientalism 
january 2008 by Vaguery
3quarksdaily
knowledge  attention  discovery  innovation  science  curiosity  explanation  academia  generalism 
january 2008 by Vaguery
STATS: The Worst Science Stories of 2007: STATS Dubious Data Awards
via:dunrie  popularization  reporting  science  ignorance  literacy  media  journalism  policy  statistics 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Overcoming Bias: Absolute Authority
"This experience, I fear, maps the domain of belief onto the social domains of authority, of command, of law."
bias  science  pedagogy  fallacy  religion  authority  psychology  sociology  philosophy 
january 2008 by Vaguery
JCS -- Archive of Issues by Date
Entire print run of Journal of Cel Science available online for free.
open-access  public-domain  academia  scholarship  science  publishing  journals 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Cabinet Magazine Online - A Minor History of / Giant Spheres
art  design  engineering  history  illustration  science  spheres 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Fact and Theory in Science
Good summary
creationism  education  evolution  language  philosophy  science  theory  pedagogy  debate 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Damn Interesting » The Origami Resolution
Folding space telescope lens
origami  physics  science  mathematics  design  innovation 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Open Reading Frame
science  philosophy  truth  Brockman-empire 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Main Page - OpenWetWare
openness  academia  biological-engineering  collaboration  community  education  free  learning  science  sharing  social-norms  cultural-norms  publishing  public-policy 
january 2008 by Vaguery
Last Words on Saletan
All: please continue to use phrase "trained incapacity" in every possible context.
trained-incapacity  racism  science  popularization  wrong  race  physical-anthropology  astroturf  statistics 
december 2007 by Vaguery
Texify - Online LaTeX equation writer
"to convert a regular text document to LaTeX format"
TeX  LaTeX  mathematics  typography  type  blog  utility  web  tools  science  math 
november 2007 by Vaguery
Which Came First? (Part Three): Can George, Lionel and Marmaduke Help Us Order the Fenton Photographs? - Errol Morris - Zoom - New York Times Blog
"Today, possibly because of Photoshop and other photography-doctoring software, people have become suspicious of photographs. This is a good thing."
via:arthegall  authority  photography  history  nanohistory  science  preservation  reenactment 
october 2007 by Vaguery
Diluting the scientific method: Ars looks at homeopathy: Page 1
via: Danny Yee
homeopathy  psychoceramics  skepticism  philosophy  science  medicine  quacks  crackpots 
september 2007 by Vaguery
Overcoming Bias: Fake Explanations
science  explanation  Bayesianism  ignorance  philosophy  psychology  pedagogy  experiment  bias 
august 2007 by Vaguery
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": complicated
Possible slogan of the Vague Family of Companies.
via:mitten  cartoon  humor  marketing  wry  science  explanation 
august 2007 by Vaguery
SuicideGirls > News > Culture > The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis
"Charlie calls this not the end of history, but the dawn of history. The idea being that history to this point is an incomplete, imperfect process full of guesswork and implication. We're now at a point where we can record everything."
via:deusx  Charles-Stross  Warren-Ellis  future  science  science-fiction  futurism  privacy  history  information-overload  records  archive 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Sequenomics
Thom LaBean and Erik Schultes start a science thing the three of us know lots about: directed combinatorial molecular design. Looking forward to seeing how they monetize expertise.
startups  Thom-LaBean  Erik-Schultes  sequenomics  science  molecular-design  combinatorial-libraries  biopolymers  bioinformatics  irrational-design 
july 2007 by Vaguery
CiteULike: Matthew (mattjb)'s library
Matthew Berryman is citing some of what we should see.
bibliography  citation  complex-systems  collaboration  CiteULike  science  reading  social-networks 
july 2007 by Vaguery
How should unproven findings be publicized?
science  research  statistics  publishing  social-norms  authority  citation  promotion  openness  open-sc 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Nascent: Foo and beyond
Important
science  foocamp  Nature  web2.0  research  pedagogy  collaboration  marketing  knowledge  management  networks  social-norms  future 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Peter Suber, Open Access News
Copy editing might help utility of scientific results. Or not.
editing  science  publishing  academia  writing  open-access 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Open Reading Frame
Discovery is the addiction that drives research -- it's the crackpipe hit, the rush, the thrill, that keeps us going through the down times and the plodding; but one of the best ways to alleviate the boredom and despondency that sets in between fixes is t
collaboration  science  open-access  open-science  academia  cultural-norms  learning-by-doing  blogs  community 
july 2007 by Vaguery
geology: I CAN HAS FAULTLINE?
lolDirt: "i made you a volcano, but i breaked it."
via:vielmetti  geology  humor  science  geeks  lolcats  "gelology"-is-ed's-fault 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much - New York Times
via:deusx  science  popularization  marketing  illiteracy  USA  cultural-norms  pedagogy  knowledge-gap  ignorance 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Free but not Open? | Public Library of Science
Free ≠ Open
free-access  open-access  openness  open-science  copyright  publishing  science 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Open Reading Frame
Free ≠ Open
free-access  open-access  publishing  science  PLoS  licensing  copyright  academia  activism 
july 2007 by Vaguery
UsefulChem » Alicia Holsey
Wiki-editing a Masters Thesis, live.
transparency  science  communication  publishing  personal-brand  openness  open-access  open-science  wiki  writing  academia 
july 2007 by Vaguery
Synthesis - That’s what I do, I synthesize. » Open Science
Another live thesis editing experiment.
science  openness  open-access  transparency  blogging  writing  academia  cultural-norms  communication  open-science 
july 2007 by Vaguery
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