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...
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How 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 It Review 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 It Review 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 It Review 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 It Review 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 It Review 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 It Review 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 It Review ItSeven year units in science: general lessons from the personal experience of working on adrenal cortex innervation and cortisol secretion
It seems to me that the learning and practice of science naturally falls into approximately seven year units; and indeed the same could be said about ‘life’. (Note: My operational definition of ‘se...
Read It Review ItFuture of Research Response to NIGMS Request for Information (RFI): Strategies for Modernizing Biomedical Graduate Education (NOT-GM-16-109)
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on how to catalyze the modernization of biomedical graduate education through NIGMS’s...
Read It Review 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 It Review 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...
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