clock | October 22, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
'Connecticut Republicans create 33 fake accounts using names of Dem legislators; Twitter shuts them down': Republicans Overtweet - Twitter shuts down 33 fake accounts created by state Republicans in an attempt to lambast Dems.
Parents More Comfortable Talking Drugs than Science - Intel Survey Reveals Majority of Parents of…
clock | October 22, 2009It's barely been a day since PLoS ONE published the article Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila when a video appeared on YouTube mashing up images and text from the press release:
Of course, as this is Open Access, nobody needs to worry about copyright and stuff....though a direct link to the paper would have been nice (or, considering the infamous YouTube commenters, perhaps better not!).
See the related blog post as well.
clock | October 22, 2009Open Access Week is in full swing and there is a lot of blogging about its various events in many countries.
OA week was marked in Serbia this year as well. As you may remember, I went to Belgrade twice in the past two years - in 2008 and 2009 and gave a total of four lectures, one brief TV interview, four long radio interviews and a print interview. I am now writing a paper about Open Access for one of their journals as well.
This effort has paid off.
I have remarked before how difficult it is to make changes in smaller countries - the scientific community is small, everyone knows everybody…
clock | October 22, 2009There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Experimental Infection of a North American Raptor, American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1):
Several species of wild raptors have been found in Eurasia…
clock | October 21, 2009I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
clock | October 21, 2009You heard of HP, didn't you? It's a person (or company, perhaps Hewlett Packard for all I know) who donated to every single challenge on Social Media Challenge Giving Pages on DonorsChoose!
And now I hear that HP wants to give even more - but there is a method to that madness: you have to donate first! More anyone raises by Sunday, more that person's Challenge gets from HP:
HP has been tracking the competition closely and has already made a $50 contribution to your page, as a result of all of your hard work. The good news? HP wants to make yet another contribution to your Giving Page. The…
clock | October 21, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Yale students call for OA.
Open access: are publishers 'double dipping'?
IHME/Harvard study wins competition for best open-access paper
Statue of George Mason (drafted the Virginia bill of rights) dressed up to support OA.
A Writing Revolution - almost universal literacy => almost universal authorship.
NCSU graduate…
clock | October 21, 2009Go say Hello to David Sloan Wilson on Evolution for Everyone.
You can check his past blogging over on Huffington Post.
clock | October 21, 2009There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Dominance, Politics, and Physiology: Voters' Testosterone Changes on the Night of the 2008 United States Presidential Election:
Background
Political elections are dominance competitions. When men win a…
clock | October 20, 2009You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
- Alan Alexander Milne
clock | October 20, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Seasonal blues - as a SAD sufferer I agree - spring and summer rock; fall and winter...try to survive.
Byte Size Biology: Weekly poll: favorite wolf metric? - (yup, scientometrics)
This is morbid and spectacular: Photos of remote birds killed by our trash - how we are killing the world with our plastic!
Downie-Schudson…
clock | October 20, 2009Five Years of Access and Activism:
In April 2009, we marked the five year anniversary of PLoS Medicine's first call for papers with an editorial titled "A Medical Journal for the World's Health Priorities" [1]. The editorial was a renewed and revitalized call for papers, announcing a "refocusing of the journal's priorities." Going forward, we said, we would prioritize papers addressing those diseases with the greatest global burden. We would also aim to be as broad a journal as possible, publishing papers that explored not just biological causes of illness, but also social, environmental, and…
clock | October 20, 2009There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today.
But first, you need to look at the new Collection of articles - Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC - in which you can see the protein structures in 3D, turn them around, zoom in and out, and do other manipulations of the embedded object, right there inside the articles. Read more about it in: A New Method for Publishing Three-Dimensional Content:
A new method for electronic publishing of articles with text linked to its interactive three dimensional content is described. The method is based on a single…
clock | October 20, 2009Scientia Pro Publica #14 is up on Genetic Inference
A joint edition of Encephalon and Grand Rounds is up on SharpBrains
clock | October 19, 2009True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
- Alicia Barnhart
clock | October 19, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Open Access Week: a researcher's perspective
On an Impulse: SFN Neuroblogging
Research Brief: Library savings from full flip to open access via article processing fees: about two-thirds savings
Reexamining Ardipithecus ramidus in Light of Human Origins
Looking at the genitals of naked mole rats
100th Open Access Mandate…
clock | October 19, 2009
This week - 19th-23rd October 2009 - is the Open Access week around the world - fitting nicely with the 5th birthday of PLoS Medicine. And when I say 'around the world' I really mean it. Just check out all the global events happening this week.
The OA Week is co-organized by Open Access Directory, PLoS, SPARC, Students for Free Culture, eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) and OASIS.
Many countries are participating this year, including some with numerous events all around the country. See, for example, all the events in Germany (there are 67 events in that country alone!),…
clock | October 18, 2009It takes a very long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
- Alice Koller
clock | October 18, 2009Go say Hello to Pamela Ronald on Tomorrow's Table.
You can check her past blogging here and here.