Exploring the flora of a Botanical garden
With an aim of exploring nature using foldscope, a nature walk was organized by GGDSD College, Chandigarh. On 13th September, 2018, we were taken for a visit to the P.U botanical garden. This beau...
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Dreidel Fairness Study
Are dreidels fair? In other words, does the average dreidel have an equal chance of turning up any one of its four sides? To explore this hypothesis, three different dreidels were each spun hundred...
Read ItHow to start an Open Science revolution! An interview with patient advocate, Graham Steel.
Continuing our Open Science Stars interview series, today we're happy to bring to you Graham Steel, a relentless campaigner for all things Open! Hi Graham, and thanks for joining us here! Could you...
Read ItA Review of MegaJournals
One issue that I've been following for a number of years is so called MegaJournals. Mega journal as defined on Wikipedia. Cue ' Open Access and The Dramatic Growth of PLoS ONE' which I wrote for th...
Read ItSocial Media Tools for Scientists and Building an Online Profile
This presentation will be given at the Janelia Farm Research Campus, a research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The presentation abstract is below. ABSTRACT Despite the availability ...
Read ItDigital workflow with Overleaf, Evernote, and Zotero to write papers
In combination, Overleaf, Zotero and Evernote make for a nice research and writing environment. You can research and write within a web browser without switching between desktop apps. This not only...
Read ItInvestigating Impact Metrics for Performance for the US-EPA National Center for Computational Toxicology
This presentation was presented at the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia in August 2016 DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Sunday, August, 21, 2016 from 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM ROOM & LOCATION: ...
Read ItHow do we build a human-centered open science?
Open science hit the mainstream of discourse in the scientific community in 2016. Here I examine the emerging criticisms leveled against how we publish and disseminate science and argues it may be ...
Read ItPublic Domain works by Charles Darwin are being legally sold online. Is this ethical ?
Early on Sunday morning (21st August 2016), I spotted the following ( anonymized) #icanhazpdf request tweet:- After spotting this, I did indeed find that the publication of this Charles Darwin pap...
Read ItTaking your Science to ‘the Public’: Meaningful Engagement with a General Audience
With increasing emphasis on converting funding into high-‘impact’ research, dissemination of cutting-edge scientific results to a general audience is becoming ever more important. Yet, public engag...
Read ItPreprints: The Bigger Picture
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...
Read ItAcademic clickbait: articles with positively-framed titles, interesting phrasing, and no wordplay get more attention online.
This article is about whether the factors which drive online sharing of non-scholarly content also apply to academic journal titles. It uses Altmetric scores as a measure of online attention to art...
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