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Fascinating. A very related post by Daniel Lemire: http://friendfeed.com/lemire... - Jan Jensen

"We evolve scalable, sustainable enterprises that enable intellectual freedom and the flow of culture and scholarship. Beyond a copyright framework to protect our investments, we strive for the widest distribution and access to our publishing that we can achieve." - Kubke from Bookmarklet

Johnstone's comments are not far off the mark either.... - Kubke

My new book on open science and related topics has just come out. It's currently available in hardcover from Amazon.com, and should by Oct 21 become available for Kindle, and from other booksellers (when it's not already). - Michael Nielsen

Now back up :-) - Michael Nielsen

Some thoughtful practical remarks about open science from neuroscientist Jonas Kubilius - Michael Nielsen

"But what's truly mind-boggling is that we also review and edit for these corporations. For free. It's the editorial and review process that gives the crucial stamp of approval to research. But publishers don't provide this: it's one more thing that we give them. We feel obliged to contribute our time, effort and expertise because reviewing is seen as a service to the community. But it's become a service to corporations." - Kubke from Bookmarklet

Wonderful essay on whether coaching can help in areas where we don't traditionally have coaches. - Michael Nielsen

Wondering how science coaching would look like. Certainly room for improvement at all stages of what formerly was called a "career" in science. - Daniel Mietchen

A wonderful detailed appreciation of RadioLab, by Ira Glass. - Michael Nielsen

Wouldn't have hurt to cite the HHMI vs. NIH study: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3... . - Daniel Mietchen

"An open-source approach to the problem of producing an off-patent drug in enantiopure form serves as an example of how academic and industrial researchers can join forces to make new scientific discoveries that could have a huge impact on human health." Posted by stevehit to pep.opendata oa.new on Fri Sep 23 2011

Thanks, Daniel. - Matthew Todd

You'll need to go to the linked post for full context; briefly, there's a draft letter in support of Steve's tenure case here (http://piratepad.net/DpuxZJT...) that his Open Science peeps can sign. This is not a substitute for the traditional individual letters of support, but an entirely appropriate supplement to same given that Steve is making Open Science a big part of his case. - Bill Hooker

Just saw this thread. Thank you everyone! - Steve Koch

Thanx for citing the Blue Obelisk paper! - Egon Willighagen

Of course! - Matthew Todd

"It is said that peer review is like democracy: it's not the best but it's the best we know. But science is not democratic. One doubtful scientist can be right while 100 convinced colleagues can be wrong. Indeed, the physicist Richard Feynman once defined science as "the belief in the ignorance of experts". Specifically, peer review of grant applications, or peer "preview", is inimical to radically new ideas. Today, however, the all-powerful peer-preview bureaucracy is the determinant of excellence. It is taboo even to criticise it. So the natural inclination to oppose major challenges to the status quo has become institutionalised. For radical research, one can argue that "the best we know" has become the worst." - Kubke

I don't think there is anything intrinsically wrong with peer review - it is the 'x number of dudes/dudettes to remain undisclosed whose names will never be made public and whose opinions will never be publicly visible will decide in the name of the entire community what is valuable and what isn't what is correct and what isn't and if you happen to have a different opinion I will not make a space available for you to share it" that I think is wrong - Kubke

I have an impression that it will disconnect scientific community from important discussions again. - Pawel Szczesny from iPhone

John had reassuring thing to say about CC's continuing role in science: http://del-fi.org/post... - Bill Hooker

CC community at the CC global summit (last weekend) remained unconvinced. We'll see. - Pawel Szczesny from iPhone

Scientific research is a process concerned with the creation, collective accumulation, contextualization, updating and maintenance of knowledge. Wikis provide an environment that allows to collectively accumulate, contextualize, update and maintain knowledge in a coherent and transparent fashion. Here, we examine the potential of wikis as platforms for scholarly publishing. In the hope to stimulate further discussion, the article itself was drafted on Species-ID – a wiki that hosts a prototype for wiki-based scholarly publishing – where it can be updated, expanded or otherwise improved. - Daniel Mietchen

The paper is out - http://dx.doi.org/10... . Editing continues at http://species-id.net/wiki... . For instance, ideas for images and multimedia are always welcome, and of course updates, examples. - Daniel Mietchen

I've thought about including reviewers' comments in "behind the scenes" blog posts about my papers, as a step towards transparency. I'd certainly be interested in reading peer reviews of papers I've liked (or not liked). But on a broader scale, I wonder if institutionalizing this process would be a more feasible step towards reforming peer review as compared to, say, completely open/signed reviews (as Daniel alludes in his first sentence). - Jason Snyder

I am planning an ESOF session on peer review for newbies - anyone game to get involved? http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki... - Daniel Mietchen

unconference, you must mean - Matthew Todd

Happy days. - science3point0

Some ideas on how to get involved: http://lists.okfn.org/piperma... and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki... . - Daniel Mietchen

""The crowd-sourcing efforts arrived at almost all of the scientific conclusions about the strain comparisons first," says Mark Pallen from the University of Birmingham, UK, "so we're surprised and disappointed that these findings are not referred to in these papers."" - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

To me, this is another strong argument for doing peer review in public - not sure how the reviewers for the Archives of Microbiology paper could have missed the missing reference to the GitHub repository, but with review in public mode, someone would certainly have told them quickly. - Daniel Mietchen

Hahahaha... funny story! - Egon Willighagen

speaking of downloading every single article a library has a subscription to, check out what can go wrong: http://kottke.org/11... - Jason Snyder

A nice post about open governance: it's not the same as open government. Perhaps the main impact is to shift the locus of collective action away from government and toward citizen groups. In other words: is open government really about government? Or is it about something completely different? - Michael Nielsen

"According to a report for Universities Australia by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, published in 2008, indigenous people participate in higher education at less than half the national average rate. By 2006, indigenous people made up 2.4 per cent of the Australian population. However, only 1.25 per cent of Australians commencing university study were Aboriginal." - Kubke from Bookmarklet