Planning a road trip across America? Considered cycling? Major US cycle routes mapped | News | guardian.co.uk
Fantastic: United Bike Lanes of America. I want to cycle across USA. Maybe after PhD.
8 days ago
Using WordPress to generate flat files
To run as a static rather than dynamic site.
wordpress 
13 days ago
Times Higher Education - Wider open spaces
Freely accessed papers are simply points in a constellation of scientific communication with the public, says Alice Bell
scicomm  publishing  openaccess  from instapaper
28 days ago
BBC News - London election: Jones says TfL should 'face safety charges'
Totally agree with for investigation into TfL for corporate manslaughter regarding Bow roundabout
cycling  london  from twitter
4 weeks ago
Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices | Science | The Guardian
Hope @imperiallibrary follow Harvard regarding journal subscriptions. Libraries are going to play a huge role in #OA.
openaccess 
5 weeks ago
Lethal Chemistry at Harvard - New York Times
On the suicide of Jason Altom, a graduate student in E.J. Corey's group at Harvard.
academia 
5 weeks ago
The Julia Language
New Julia language for tech computing looks interesting. I've tried Python, but I really do still prefer MATLAB.
programming  from twitter
5 weeks ago
Elsevier Preprint Archive
Despite their wide readership, the Chemistry, Maths and Computer Science research communities did not contribute articles or online comments to the Preprint service in saufficient numbers to justify further development. Consequently on the 24th of May, 2004 the three Elsevier Preprint Servers--Chemistry, Math and Computer Science--stopped accepting new submissions to their sites.
publishing  science 
5 weeks ago
PhD students: Don’t ‘occupy publishing’, just do your bit — bench twentyone
PhD students: no need to ‘occupy publishing’, but instead help share results more widely online — by
openscience  from twitter
7 weeks ago
Music awakens closed minds
Alive Inside: a documentary about the enlivening effect of music on elderly people in care
music  health  from twitter
7 weeks ago
Open access publishing: fund it all — Dundee Physics
Argues that RCUK should pay for all open access page charges.
openaccess  from twitter
7 weeks ago
The PHD Movie!
Yay! The PhD Movie coming to DVD/streaming. Managed to miss *two* screenings at Imperial…
film  phd  from twitter
7 weeks ago
Climbing a Shard of Glass — Place Hacking
Amazing photos from the top of the shard (via everyone…)
london  from twitter
7 weeks ago
Postdoc or not? – Nature Jobs
Life-sciences graduates interested in academic research typically need to do at least one postdoc. For physics students, there are multiple caveats to consider.

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careers  academia 
8 weeks ago
30/03/2012 — Caffeinated Toothpaste
My heart always breaks a little when I see pizza on the ground
favourite 
8 weeks ago
Times Higher Education - Wellcome Trust gets tough on open access
Good. More coercion the better. CC-BY too! RT : Wellcome Trust gets tough on open access: via
openaccess  from twitter
9 weeks ago
How the Daily Mail Conquered England — The New Yorker
'One editor [of DM] says, “The paper’s defining ideology is that Britain has gone to the dogs.”'
journalism  culture  from twitter
9 weeks ago
Properties and Best Uses of Visual Encodings — Complex Diagrams
Useful table of what different visual objects can convey.
datavis 
11 weeks ago
Grid
Grid is an add-on package for the R language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It provides a set of graphical functions which support a great deal of flexibility in the layout of graphics.
R 
11 weeks ago
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