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It would be a place where people (students, junior faculty, etc) could learn the ropes of academia and science without the pain and misery that traditionally is required. The differences I can see from existing services is the focus on journal club-style discussions and maybe a low barrier to entry - Shirley Wu from twhirl

bumping for http://ff.im/LIliG - Daniel Mietchen

This will generate some heat. - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

Abigail: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... - Matt Hodgkinson

Got any recommendations for a starting place (site or book) for a newbie with R? - Brian Westra

Egon, I agree. I don't retain skills I don't use on a regular basis. - Brian Westra

pq -- "The future of scholarly publishing does look bright - just not for publishers." It even looks pretty good for publishers who aren't insanely greedy. :-) - Bill Hooker

Thanks, Egon. I replied there (basically agreeing with your point about peer-review standards). - Björn Brembs

immigration laws are a pain. Hope things work out for Andrew - Rajarshi Guha

yep, I have many stories of immigration laws - pn

"Until not so long, I thought that it was worth it. It was something that I had never questioned so far. I wanted to be a scientist since when I was five. I had done everything to become a scientist. I was a scientist in one of the top universities of the world, in one of the top five research groups on the subject. I had won a personal fellowship to fund myself. Most of my self-esteem, of my very concept of self-realization, relied on myself being a scientist. The very idea of quitting academia was a synonim of personal failure." That right there is the engine of the pyramid scheme. - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

some more comments here: http://ff.im/ylQGj and I agree with Andrew .. thats why we should fight against even the language that is used (i.e. "quiting science") - Pedro Beltrao

It's overhyped... - Egon Willighagen

OTOH, if you neglect your blog as I do mine, does that mean you have a resume but it's crap? - Bill Hooker

The actual post on Science of Blogging is here: http://scienceofblogging.com/if-you-... - John Dupuis

Is the presentation available online? - Benjamin Tseng

Congrats! What's it about? Or doesn't that matter? :) - Egon Willighagen

Congrats !!! - Mitsuteru N

"data science is more than just an opportunity to have fun and make the world a better place — it might even be how you make an honest living!" - Deepak Singh

Given pathway connectivities, genes with high centralities might be expected to show such an effect - Rajarshi Guha

E.g. +/- Vegf mice are poorly vascularized and embryonic lethal. PMID 8602242 - John Hogenesch

'The elite journals have a rejection rate, typically, of more than 90 per cent. For no good reason, this rate is used to justify the quality of a journal and becomes a target for others to emulate. Editors have become judge, jury and, mostly, executioner.[...] Where will this end? Perhaps a journal will announce that it has achieved a rejection rate of 100 per cent - nothing by anybody is considered good enough to grace its pages.' - Kubke

"The most lauded journals are based in the US, and reflect the positivist and functionalist orthodoxy that dominates the discipline there. They pay relatively little attention to such problems in management theory and practice as exploitative working conditions, race or ethics. " - Christina Pikas

…to file my Annual Performance Review. Nothing makes me shiver as much as the Dean’s email reminding us that it is time to file our Annual Performance Reviews (APRs). This year shivering does not begin to express the feeling I got upon receiving that email. What have I achieved this year? ‘Nothing’ was the first [...] - Kubke

In the midst of various DDOS attacks, Paypal has moved to release Wikileaks' funds from it's account, after it was suspended late last week for a breach of the sites Terms of Service. - David Bradley

Now, I would be more impressed if they acknowledged their mistake in closing an account in absence of any conviction (anywhere), and reopen the account again. It's not a bank's role to play jury and judge. - Egon Willighagen

Exactly right Paypal. Same applies to the US agency that is shutting domains that the RIAA tells it are pirates without due legal process and before the law has actually come into force. Something similar will happen in UK soon and probably rest of EU. But, that said, P2P DNS will get around that particular problem, at least. - David Bradley

Wikileaks, we need you now! - Noel O'Boyle

intriguing... - Jean-Claude Bradley

Does one actually have an option? You need 20 years of experience to get tenure, because there is always one who does... this system sucks big time... effectively we tenure people who haven't given up, instead of the best candidates... - Egon Willighagen

Two is too many , unless they are very short. I general not knowing what to do and using multiple postdocs to figure things out can be regarded as a weakness. That said you can do more than two if you want to pick up a new technique or find a mentor who is worth the one additional postdoc label - Hari

I came to an entirely different conclusion from the same data - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

@Daniel, I would agree, given the criteria they use, it might be interesting to see where something like 'fish 'n chips' would score in this analysis compared to some of the 'illegal drugs'. - Kubke