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...
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A 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...
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There 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...
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A rant about why the
authors of the NEJM editorial “Data sharing” are simply wrong.
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Originally 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...
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Ten ‘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), ...
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Preprint 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...
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An 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...
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The 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...
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Over 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 ...
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This 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...
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Digital 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
...
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When 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...
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To 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...
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The 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...
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Despite 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...
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On 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...
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ResearchGate - 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...
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Preprints have become a popular topic of
conversation among publishers, researchers, funders, librarians, technology
builders, and service providers. Their attention is spurring explorations into
b...
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As 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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