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sennoma — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:12:00 -0500

NIH grants vs. investigator age Tagged by sennoma under scienceisasnakepit, science.numbers, science.funding,

HUBzero - Platform for Scientific Collaboration

sennoma — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:04:00 -0500

Tagged by sennoma under collaboration, science, tools, oaos.tools,

About « Experimental Turk

sennoma — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:25:00 -0500

About The goal of this blog is reporting evidence concerning the reliability of Amazon Mechanical Turk as an online subject pool for experiments in economics, psychology, and social sciences in general. Using AMT to run web-based experiments allows researchers to obtain large quantities of data in a cheap and efficient way. However, there is lack of evidence regarding the actual reliability of AMT’s workforce as a subject pool; as any new instrument, AMT requires to be tested thoroughly in order to be used confidently. This blog aims at collecting any individual effort made in order to validate AMT as a research tool. It reports results from experiments that increase or decrease the reliability of AMT as an online subject pool, as well as general guidance for running experiments through this service. Tagged by sennoma under mechanicalturk, x-phi,

Basket as a writing tool, SCAN as a collector « Freelancing science

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:16:00 -0500

Tagged by sennoma under tools,

BioMed Central Blog : What is original research?

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:06:00 -0500

growth in web technologies and increased transparency in the literature - and data - may be contributing to a shift in our perceptions of what constitutes a prior publication. Innovative online journals with virtually unlimited space provide researchers with opportunities to produce novel (original) contributions to the literature that are clearly and transparently linked to previously published articles. These include significantly extended/re-analysed reports of previously published summary findings in journals such as Trials and legitimate or incremental updates to previous studies in BMC Research Notes. Tagged by sennoma under science, openscience, scholarlycommunication,

Promoting Open Source Science | WalterJessen.com

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:17:00 -0500

Tagged by sennoma under walterjessen, oaos.examples, interviews, openscience,

Open Research, Open Science « Helena’s Research Blog

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:51:00 -0500

Tagged by sennoma under oaos.blogs, openscience,

Science 2.0 The birth of the Citizen Scientist - Rob's posterous

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:47:00 -0500

Tagged by sennoma under oaos.misc, openscience, citizenscience,

Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential : JISC

sennoma — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:47:00 -0500

This report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion associated with data-intensive open science from a wide range of sources. The potential impact of data-intensive open science on research practice and research outcomes, is both substantive and far-reaching. There are implications for funding organisations, for research and information communities and for higher education institutions. Tagged by sennoma under oaos.review, opennotebookscience, openresearch, openscience,

Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in the life sciences | Research Information Network

sennoma — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:03:00 -0500

This report by the British Library and the Research Information Network (RIN) provides a unique insight into how information is used by researchers across life sciences. Undertaken by the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the UK Digital Curation Centre and the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services, the report concludes that ‘one-size-ﬁts-all’ information and data sharing policies are not achieving scientiﬁcally productive and cost-efﬁcient information use in life sciences. The report was developed using an innovative approach to capture the day-to-day patterns of information use in seven research teams from a wide range of disciplines, from botany to clinical neuroscience. The study undertaken over 11 months and involving 56 participants found that there is a signiﬁcant gap between how researchers behave and the policies and strategies of funders and service providers. This suggests that the attempts to implement such strategies have had only a limited impact. Key ﬁndings from the report include: * Researchers use informal and trusted sources of advice from colleagues, rather than institutional service teams, to help identify information sources and resources * The use of social networking tools for scientiﬁc research purposes is far more limited than expected * Data and information sharing activities are mainly driven by needs and beneﬁts perceived as most important by life scientists rather than ‘top-down’ policies and strategies * There are marked differences in the patterns of information use and exchange between research groups active in different areas of the life sciences, reinforcing the need to avoid standardised policy approaches Tagged by sennoma under scholarlycommunication, oa,

Distributed Science, Part 2 : Common Knowledge

sennoma — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:58:00 -0500

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miscellaneous factZ - The online home of Rufus Pollock » Blog Archive » Open Notebook Social Science

sennoma — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:48:00 -0500

"The other day I posted up some work-in-progress on the subject of patterns of knowledge production. That material is still in a fairly preliminary state. However, my decision to release it it in this form was a conscious decision and part of an ongoing attempt on my part to practice a more open “release early, release often” approach to research. In doing this I’m drawing direct inspiration from the open source and open notebook (science) communities and seeking to engage in what might be termed open notebook social science!" Tagged by sennoma under oaos.examples,

Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science? : Common Knowledge

sennoma — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:20:00 -0500

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Science & Sensibility » Can we improve research by crowd sourcing peer review?

sennoma — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:06:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under oa.laymanuse, oaos.examples, scienceisasnakepit,

The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research

sennoma — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:08:00 -0400

Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets. The speed at which any given scientific discipline advances will depend on how well its researchers collaborate with one another, and with technologists, in areas of eScience such as databases, workflow management, visualization, and cloud computing technologies. In The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, the collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized. Tagged by sennoma under opendata, openscience,

Beta Science: BioTorrents - a file sharing resource for scientists

sennoma — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:35:00 -0400

BioTorrents is a website that allows open access sharing of scientific data. It uses the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing technology to allow rapid file transferring. Tagged by sennoma under opendata, oaos.misc,

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Single molecule's stunning image

sennoma — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:56:00 -0400

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Science Pipes

sennoma — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:05:00 -0400

SciencePipes is an environment in which students, educators, citizens, resource managers, and scientists can create and share analyses and visualizations of biodiversity data. It is built to support inquiry-based learning, allowing analysis results and visualizations to be dynamically incorporated into web sites (e.g. blogs) for dissemination and consumption beyond SciencePipes.org itself. For more information: * further introduction * presentations * status of the site * NSDL article about SciencePipes.org Alpha functionality demos: * uploading and running a Kepler workflow * editing a pipe in the SciencePipes.org authoring environment SciencePipes is a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Information Science Program and is funded by the National Science Digital Library. Tagged by sennoma under scholarlycommunication, openscience, webtools,

The Un-Scientific Method: or, how good science becomes bad press

sennoma — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:14:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under lostart,

PETA has a bone to pick with DonorsChoose. : Adventures in Ethics and Science

sennoma — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:46:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under lostart,