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Toby Burrows Photography

sennoma — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:12:00 -0500

Uneven but contains some really arresting work. Including portraits, which I don't usually care for. Tagged by sennoma under photo,

miscellaneous factZ - The online home of Rufus Pollock » Blog Archive » Exploring Patterns of Knowledge Production

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:05:00 -0500

I’m posting up some work-in-progress entitled Exploring Patterns of Knowledge Production (link to full pdf). Below I’ve excerpted the introduction plus list of motivational questions. Comments (and critique) very welcome! Tagged by sennoma under oaos.examples,

How I Work: The Best of How I Work

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:02:00 -0500

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Patrick Madigan Portfolio - New Work, The Monumental, The Wild Wild, Reconstructed Memories, Twisted, Evolution of the Flesh, The Woods, Pregnancy, Other

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:55:00 -0500

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Nonprofit stocks labs worldwide with Boston area throwaways - The Boston Globe

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:26:00 -0500

Tagged by sennoma under work, think,

SSRN-Real Copyright Reform by Jessica Litman

sennoma — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:20:00 -0500

Abstract: A copyright system is designed to produce an ecology that nurtures the creation, dissemination and enjoyment of works of authorship. When it works well, it encourages creators to generate new works, assists intermediaries in disseminating them widely, and supports readers, listeners and viewers in enjoying them. If the system poses difficult entry barriers to creators, imposes demanding impediments on intermediaries, or inflicts burdensome conditions and hurdles on readers, then the system fails to achieve at least some of its purposes. The current U.S. copyright statute is flawed in all three respects. In this article, I explore how the current copyright system is failing its intended beneficiaries. The foundation of copyright law’s legitimacy, I argue, derives from its evident benefits for creators and for readers. That foundation is badly cracked, in large part because of the perception that modern copyright law is not especially kind to either creators or to readers; instead, it concentrates power in the hands of the intermediaries who control the conduits between creators and their audience. Those intermediaries have recently used their influence and their copyright rights to obstruct one another’s exploitation of copyrighted works. I argue that the concentration of copyright rights in the hands of intermediaries made more economic sense in earlier eras than it does today. The key to real copyright reform, I suggest, is to reallocate copyright’s benefits to give more rights to creators, greater liberty to readers, and less control to copyright intermediaries. Tagged by sennoma under intellectualproperty, copyright,

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,

BIOLOGY MEETINGS, BIOLOGY CONFERENCES 2009, BIOLOGY MEETING WORLDWIDE

sennoma — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:51:00 -0400

Welcome to Biology Meetings.Com - your first stop to find current, up to date links to major biology conferences, scientific meetings, biology seminars and biology meeting throughout the U.S. and the world! Some browsers do not support the graphical google map interface we are using to help find meetings. Tagged by sennoma under conferences, work,

Words of Advice for NIH-Funded Authors

sennoma — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:55:00 -0400

• Does the manuscript apply under the NIH Public Access Policy? • Which NIH grant awards supported the manuscript? Use the NIH Grants Lookup Tool to confirm grant award numbers. • Which journal will the manuscript be submitted to? • Which method of submission does the journal fall under? See the NIH chart on submission methods. • If a Method C or D form of submission journal, which author will be assigned as the responsible author for the review and approval tasks? See the short video: Approving Submission of an Article to PubMed Central which outlines the process for authors in response to an email from NIHMS asking for approval of a submission done by a publisher or third party. • Which author will be responsible for making sure that the work has a PMCID within three months post publication of the manuscript, and notifying all authors and PIs associated with the manuscript of the most current means of documentation of compliance with the NIH Policy (“PMC Journal – In Process,” or NIHMS ID) until the PMCID is assigned? Tagged by sennoma under oa, oa.mandates,

PLoS Biology: Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research

sennoma — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:59:00 -0400

After more than 40 years of full-time research in developmental biology and genetics, I wrote my first grant and showed it to those experienced in grantsmanship. They advised me my application would not succeed. I had explained that we didn't know what experiments might deliver, and had acknowledged the technical problems that beset research and the possibility that competitors might solve problems before we did. My advisors said these admissions made the project look precarious and would sink the application. I was counselled to produce a detailed, but straightforward, program that seemed realistic—no matter if it were science fiction. I had not mentioned any direct application of our work: we were told a plausible application should be found or created. I was also advised not to put our very best ideas into the application as it would be seen by competitors—it would be safer to keep those ideas secret. Tagged by sennoma under scienceisasnakepit,

The Ferryman: Growing significance of communities and collaboration in discovery and development

sennoma — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:21:00 -0400

The benefits of community participation or collaboration should outweigh the costs to support a rational decision to pursue such routes. Lions usually prefer to hunt as a group as the shared food from group kills offers a better return and lower risk than hunting alone; in a similar manner organisations may also choose to collaborate to have greater success in acquiring new resources or income. The current convergence of a number of factors appears to be driving up the R&D collaboration benefit/cost ratio. The drivers include: 1. Scientific research is becoming more complex and multi-disciplinary, requiring researchers to move more away from “working in the expert’s box”. 2. Our work, economy and society are becoming more knowledge-oriented. (I define knowledge here as including understanding gained from experience and involves individual and collective knowledge in addition to explicit knowledge such as intellectual property (IP).) 3. Business models in the chemistry and pharmaceutical industry that worked fine historically, e.g., manufacturing products based predominantly on patents related to chemistry, appear to be increasingly lacking. 4. The goals of translational and personalized medicine have stronger requirements for networked and collaborative approaches over discipline and time than the historically relatively linear drug discovery and development process. Integrated services offer greater future value creation than stand-alone products. 5. Patient Safety has become an issue of growing concern requiring new more integrative approaches to data, knowledge and disciplines. 6. Computational Science continues to grow in importance, fueling overlaps and interactions between scientific disciplines including that of computer science. 7. The maturing of the Internet-based World Wide Web including enhanced usability, services, social software and the semantic web, provide new community and collaboration resource opportunities. 8. Challenging problems we face as a Tagged by sennoma under openscience, collaboration,

Philosophers' Playground: Tipping and Sports

sennoma — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:32:00 -0400

Whoever it was that got your "BAD SERVICE" note is working a tough job made much worse by the exploitative remuneration system. They're having a hard day because every day is hard in a job like that -- and then you come along, all bent out of shape because you had to wait a whole 20 minutes and do a simple task for yourself. I'm not claiming that they're morally right to do so, but like it or not they *are* going to dunk the cook's nasty sweaty nuts in your diet Coke before they bring it to you, if you ever go back there. Being *right* might give you great satisfaction but it won't take the taste of hairy man-bits out of your mouth. Tagged by sennoma under lostart,

I'm OK; The Bull Is Dead

sennoma — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:47:00 -0400

1. Punch line: The facts; no adjectives, adverbs or modifiers. "Milestone 4 wasn't hit on time, and we didn't start Task 8 as planned." Or, "Received charter approval as planned." 2. Current status: How the punch-line statement affects the project. "Because of the missed milestone, the critical path has been delayed five days." 3. Next steps: The solution, if any. "I will be able to make up three days during the next two weeks but will still be behind by two days." 4. Explanation: The reason behind the punch line. "Two of the five days' delay is due to late discovery of a hardware interface problem, and the remaining three days' delay is due to being called to help the customer support staff for a production problem." Notice the almost reverse order of these points in comparison with the common reporting style in which team members start with a long explanation of why things went wrong. Using the four steps described above, the project manager learns the most important information first, then he learns supporting information to help complete the story. Tagged by sennoma under work, management,

Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - The Mind Wobbles at Science Online « petermr’s blog

sennoma — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:50:00 -0400

25% of authors can’t find one/any of the images (e.g. gels) that ther “included” in the paper. That’s a strong case for the sort of work we are doing in data capture with CLARION. Tagged by sennoma under petermr, oaos.need,

Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word

sennoma — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:12:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under stuff, work, want,

Mesa Redonda sobre Patrimonio Intelectual y Conocimiento Libre - Jean Claude Guedón (Argumento)

sennoma — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:16:00 -0400

"It is difficult to imagine, except rhetorically, how advocating for Open Access can be divorced from working for a different structuring of power in science." Tagged by sennoma under oa.quotes, jeanclaudeguedon, readthis, oa,

STD-DOI Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data

sennoma — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:14:00 -0400

Publication and Citation of Scientific Primary Data" (STD-DOI) is a project funded by the German Science Foundation. Its aim is to make primary scientific data citeable as publications. In this system, a data set would be attributed to its investigators as authors like it would be done for a work in the conventional scientific literature. Thus, scientific primary data should not exclusively understood as part of a scientific publication, but may have its own identity Tagged by sennoma under opendata, semanticweb,

Web 2.0 Easier, faster, friendlier

sennoma — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:29:00 -0400

In this hands-on learning programme a team from Murdoch Library helps you explore free online tools that can be used for teaching, learning, research and managing daily work. It runs from 23 June to 28 July 2009. Each Friday information about two or three Things , plus exercises about each will appear on this blog. You can complete all of this from home, or if you booked in you can attend workshops offered by the library. Tagged by sennoma under Berglund, libraries, webtools,

MD Lab Blog: Open scientists have more and more early "Aha!" moments

sennoma — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:17:00 -0400

An "Aha!" moment or event indicates a change in the cognitive state. I first heard about this concept from Frank Ohl and Henning Scheich, former colleagues, but recently also found it in the Wall Street Journal: A Wandering Mind Heads Straight Toward Insight, which serves as a better introduction. These moments need an environment in which they can flourish. As far as my moments are concerned, they come—surprisingly—reliably but only if I write about my work with the reader in mind. Most of my articles changed quite dramatically in the process of writing, although I used to start writing, only when I thought the creative work is seemingly finished. I learned nothing could be more wrong. So for me being engaged in making my work more transparent by writing about it at an earlier stage, while it is still in progress, is nothing less than forcing insight. Tagged by sennoma under oaos.examples, openscience,

Hearing on: H.R. 6845, the "Fair Copyright in Research Works Act"

sennoma — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:08:00 -0400

This is the hearing where Zerhouni estimated the NIH support for publication charges at 80 to 100 million/year Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, oa.numbers, oa.mandates,