Three years into my PhD, the most important thing to me was publishing in Nature. As a PhD student in computational neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon, I was building computer simulations to study how...
Read ItA little over a year ago, I started a website. This website took me on a journey I could have never imagined. It scored me my first press interview and got me on Business Insider and Huffington Pos...
Read ItThere is no doubt, in the early twentieth century, of Gertrude Stein’s influence on Hemingway. Hemingway’s style does not directly mimic that of Stein’s; but Stein taught him how language means thr...
Read ItA rant about why the authors of the NEJM editorial “Data sharing” are simply wrong.
Read ItOriginally posted here by Marcus Banks. Re-blogged in verbatim with permission to do so. Following Aaron Swartz's tragic suicide in 2013, there was a brief flurry of attempts to honor his legacy by...
Read ItTen ‘Personal’ Reasons why I am skeptical about Open Access (OA): Thoughts of an Individual Researcher Although a great deal of hurdles are overcome with so many ‘models’ of Open Access (OA), ...
Read ItPreprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science. It also enables us to catch errors earlier, minimisin...
Read ItAn academic career takes years to develop. I share below some experiences on how my perception and the meaning of a PhD was altered through a chance encounter with Freeman Dyson’s story in physics...
Read ItThe following questions and answers are adapted from the session “When Publishers Aren’t Getting It Done,” part of the Association of American University Presses annual meeting. Moderator: Neil Ch...
Read ItOver the past few years a vast range of cloud-based scholarly communication tools have been added to the researcher's toolkit. The timeline developed by Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer at Utrecht ...
Read ItThis paper presents three case studies describing the use of altmetrics across three research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK and USA. We conduct interviews to learn more about ho...
Read ItDigital research and scholarship is an area of growth and investment for many libraries, and defined loosely at different institutions. In this job talk, I propose that digital research support be ...
Read ItWhen I entered graduate school, I was excited to actually start working on a project that I felt was not only meaningful but also aligned with my long-term career interests. However, as I've gotte...
Read ItTo err is human. Scientists being human, they make mistakes. Many if not most of the rules for doing science are designed to weed out mistakes. Reproducibility and replicability are recogniz...
Read ItThe Same Thing Over and Over Again When scientists fail to reproduce the results of multiple experiments the support previously provided for theories breaks down. This is a modern phenomenon in sc...
Read ItDespite science being a beacon of innovation, invention and new ideas, the process of scientific publication has remained relatively unchanged for the past 250 years (Spier, 2002). Since 1752, the...
Read ItOn 9 May 2013, US President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13642-Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government - mandating, wherever legally permissible and possible, that US...
Read ItResearchGate - wow, a social network for scientists and researchers you might think. But think again about the 'wow'. At least I am not so impressed. Here's why... I once created a profile on Resea...
Read ItPreprints have become a popular topic of conversation among publishers, researchers, funders, librarians, technology builders, and service providers. Their attention is spurring explorations into b...
Read ItAs my PhD is about attitudes to research sharing infrastructures; this event, with its provocative title, therefore became unmissable. I scrambled to get some funding together with short notice, as...
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