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Pawel recommends
- 07/20/11 PHD comic: 'Intellectual Freedom'
- Quantification of mRNA and protein and integration with protein turnover in a bacterium
- [News & Analysis] Psychology: Searching for the Google Effect on People's Memory
- How to waste public money in one easy step…
- Epigenome-wide association studies for common human diseases
- Differential Producibility Analysis (DPA) of Transcriptomic Data with Metabolic Networks: Deconstructing the Metabolic Response of M. tuberculosis.
- Learning: Not Just the Facts, Ma'am, but the Counterfactuals as Well.
- Genome sequence and analysis of the tuber crop potato
- The neural basis of following advice.
- How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?
Reading list
- Nuclear noncoding RNA surveillance: is the end in sight?
- PLoS ONE: TumorHoPe: A Database of Tumor Homing Peptides
- The new geography of scientific collaborations
- Individual genomics of yeast
- Publishing can be the engine of the engagement economy
- Structural basis for alginate secretion across the bacterial outer membrane.
- A Model of Proto-Anti-Codon RNA Enzymes Requiring L: -Amino Acid Homochirality.
- Day Old News is Fresh Enough
- Bridging the Resolution Gap in Structural Modeling of 3D Genome Organization.
- Does the potential for chaos constrain the embryonic cell-cycle oscillator?
Archive for the ‘Science 2.0’ Category
Open science and the economic collapse
21, Sep 2010My colleague is interested in designing a better PCR machine and is collecting all the hardware information he can get. Today, after I’ve forwarded him a link to OpenPCR, a project aiming at constructing open source PCR hardware that anyone can build, he asked me what’s the point of making biotech equipment by yourself in [...]
Open Data citation advantage
2, Aug 2010Quite recently my colleagues published a paper on genome-wide model of translation (in PLoS Computational Biology). They have used a number of different data, although in one case the data wasn’t available in the text or as a supplementary material – they needed to ask the other group for certain raw numbers from their experiment [...]
- In: Science 2.0
- Tags: citation advantage, open access, Open Data
Science as a complex system – introduction
29, Jul 2010Image via Wikipedia Which complex system? Complexity theory, that is studying complex systems, is tracked back to 18th century with classical political economy of the Scottish Enlightenment, although the real pioneers of the field are 20th century’s philosophers, economists, mathematicians and social scientists. It’s a rather young field, but it already covers quite large number [...]
Open data and open source. Incompatible?
16, Jul 2010Open data movement seemingly doesn’t differ much from other “open” movements – its goal is to have free access to data (you can substitute data for articles/source code/creative content) without certain restrictions and mechanisms of control. Quite recently a group of usuall suspects (Cameron Neylon, John Wilbanks, Peter Murray-Rust and Rufus Pollock) put together a [...]
- In: Science 2.0
- Tags: Open Data, Open Source, science funding
Image via Wikipedia This is long-overdue report of the session on science freelancing and science coworking at Science Online 2010 that I’ve co-moderated with Brian Russell from Carrboro Creative Coworking. In the first part of the session I described shortly my journey from being freelance scientists (posts documenting ca. a year of being freelance scientist: [...]
One scientific journal, one scientific community
9, Apr 2010Image via Wikipedia There’s interesting relation between this comment by Richard Gordon and Bryan J. Poulin entitled “There is but one journal: the scientific literature” (posted under essay in PLoS Medicine entitled “Why current publication practices may distort science”): (…) Frankly, when downloading a paper, we pay more attention to the contents than the name [...]
- In: Science 2.0
- Tags: future, interdisciplinarity, open access, Open Science, plos, scientific literature
More on strategy for promoting Open Science
8, Apr 2010Cover via Amazon It seems obvious that science depends on communication although we tend to limit the scope of this word to communication of (raw) results and knowledge. Moreover, we rarely pay any attention to the way the message is transmitted, what is the perception of the message in the public, and finally, what is [...]
- In: Memetics|Science 2.0
- Tags: dueling loops, marketing, open access, Open Science, Science 2.0, strategy, thwink
Talking on Open Science at TEDxWarsaw
14, Mar 2010This is video of my talk on Open Science given at TEDxWarsaw on 5th of March 2010. Slides of this and other talks are available on Presentations page. Talking about openness in science to non-scientists was a big challenge and I’m not sure I got it right. I hope to learn more from other speakers [...]
- In: Science 2.0
- Tags: Open Science, openness, TED, TEDx, TEDxWarsaw, video
My ignite talk over at Science Online 2010
8, Feb 2010Image via Wikipedia This more or less transcript of the ignite talk I gave over at Science Online 2010. The video hasn’t been posted yet, but I will update the post, when it’s available. It’s already a few years since I’ve implemented my Personal Virtual Advisory Board. No, it’s not another name for hanging out [...]
Open Foo: sharing practice, social movement and technology
4, Aug 2010In the discussion under my recent post on incompatibilities between open source and open data Bill Anderson pointed out frequent confusion between “open source” and “free software”. He cited Richard Stallman’s essay which argues that open source is a software development methodology, while free software is a social movement. Building on that, Bill wrote that [...]