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Yet another example of what you can do with open data. - Daniel Mietchen

Andrew: thanks for the PR! - Iddo Friedberg

ehh, gotta say I'd not-like this if I could. I know plenty of smart people (scientists even) who happen to be religious, and plenty of stupid scientists. And I'd forgive the generalization if the rest of it were funny or insightful, but frankly it's not. my two cents... - Andrew Su

Wait I especially love the orbital versus the halo, nice touch! - Mary Spiro

Masaharu Takemura is Japanese biotechnologist and write biotechnology books easily. http://www.rs.kagu.tus.ac.jp/takemur... - Ami Iida

"Do not wear Axe Body Spray. In fact, that's sound advice even outside of the context of a poster session. It's a godawful smell that simply advertises any number of inadequacies, if not all of them." - Iddo Friedberg

Wow, if my grad-school 'research skills' seminars had been even half as entertaining as this page, I'd have gone to more than two of them... - Andrew Clegg

Its the DJ business :) - Sean Seaver

nice solution to the multiple author problem - Jean-Claude Bradley

Really great story! Congrats Michael, Timothy, and the rest of the team! - Steve Koch

Question and answer site for mathematics, with quite a bit of serious activity at a high level. - Michael Nielsen

stackoverflow and serverfault are incredibly useful sites so it's nice seeing their codebase being used for something else - Andrew Clegg

In re: The Chemistry Prize: For goodness sake, why would you want to turn tequila into diamonds? That's devaluing it ;) - Todd Harris

ROFL.... so true... - Alejandro Montenegro

Congrats to Newcastle Uni :) Glad to be from a Uni where someone's won an IgNobel! Newcastle press release here: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press... - Allyson Lister

"An hour and a half after waking, early birds and night owls were equally alert and showed no difference in attention-related brain activity. But after being awake for 10 and a half hours, night owls had grown more alert, performing better on a reaction-time task requiring sustained attention and showing increased activity in brain areas linked to attention. More important, these regions included the suprachiasmatic area, which is home to the body’s circadian clock. This area sends signals to boost alertness as the pressure to sleep mounts. Unlike night owls, early risers didn’t get this late-day lift." - Donnie Berkholz from Bookmarklet

That was my first true science post, from January 2005, the one that showed me there is interest in this and I could move from blogging politics to blogging science. I posted it on a brand new blog that nobody knew about, just set up, and the next day it was linked by BoingBoing, Andrew Sullivan and others. Even today, it is still my most visited post ever (and that counts ONLY the... more... - Bora Zivkovic

Just got this link from Elsevier. Looked up some of the prices: First page of my article as a small poster: 25€+tax/shipping. Printed issue with my paper in it: 30€. 50 offprints of my article 300€. Checking the download stats of the article PDF on my homepage: priceless! - Björn Brembs from Bookmarklet

I presented this paper in my lab meet, but I was not able to find the expansion of FLORA in the paper. - Khader Shameer

I work in the Orengo group -- but not on FLORA, this was all before I arrived. Thanks for the article, I've sent the link around the lab. PS see also comments on article - Andrew Clegg

Extinction = 410 (Gone) - Eric Jain

"Potter discovered, however, that geographic location alone could determine whether a drug bested placebo or crossed the futility boundary." - Michael Kuhn

How is all that stuff one tradition? And wasn't the concept of "traditional Chinese medicine" a political invention from Mao after WWII? (see e.g. http://bit.ly/SDdt0 ) - Andrew Clegg

does anyone else think its weird that they're calling these things robots? seems like they're dragging us into the future... - Mary Canady

LOL, it follows naturally (for me, at least) from how people call auto-responding IM services or IRC scripts bots. - Mr. Gunn

For those unfamiliar with Santiago Ramon y Cajal, see Wikipedia entry (http://is.gd/2wMPJ). I also recommend this assay in LabLit: "Dr. Bacteria: The strange science fiction of Santiago Ramón y Cajal" (http://is.gd/2wMY4). - Cesar Sanchez

"As for what occupied the most of our respondents’ time, coding and debugging took first place." This doesn't seem typical for any-given-average scientist! Surely: checking email, writing papers in Word, analysing data in Excel, and doing domain-specific stuff like working with the control software for their instruments? - Andrew Clegg

"I collaborate with a number of scientists (mostly biologists) who develop software, databases, and other tools related to the work they do. . . . Does anyone have any suggestions for how to persuade people whose primary job isn't programming that it's of benefit to their community for them to be more open with the tools they've built?" - Chris Miller from Bookmarklet

Sure would be interesting to see the funding agencies require posting code developed using public money to a repository somewhere and then have journals require links to code before publication similar to genome papers. Even something as simple as versioned tarball hosting. - Paul J. Davis

Liked... But I disagree with the suggestion that comp. biol. is the same as in silico modeling. - Andrew Clegg

Every computational method has different sources of error, just as every experimental technique does, with false positive rates and false negative rates. If you have no idea how it works you'll just have to trust it blindly. - Ruchira S. Datta

I still have nightmares... - Iddo Friedberg

Might get more synergy if it is on git? - Jason Stajich

Left a comment... I think this is good news: 'they' now seem to agree that we are doing science, and that someone may steal our science.... Good, progress, good. - Egon Willighagen

I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing *is* science. That's not to say that that rings true for all bioinformatics. - Neil Swainston

for "Defrosting the digital library: bibliographic tools for the next generation web" - Abhishek Tiwari

This made me smile when I set up a Mendeley account last week. Allyson, the two biggest groups of users on Mendeley are Biological Science (3838 users) and Computer and Information Science (3430 users) - Daniel Swan

Still cracking up: "18 flavour attributes (sweet, sour/acid, tuna, herbal, spicy, soy, salty, cereal, caramel, chicken, methionine, vegetable, offaly, meaty, burnt flavour, prawn, rancid and bitter) and four texture dimensions (hardness, chewiness, grittiness and viscosity) were generated to describe the sensations elicited by 13 commercial pet food samples." - Jim Hardy from Bookmarklet

Comedy gold. BTW WTF does MET taste like anyway?!? - Andrew Clegg

I have been thinking about this too, but decided not to do this just yet... - Egon Willighagen

Also, the declaration need not, as I said in the OP, restrict one to Gold OA. If a journal's policies are compatible with embargo-free postprint Green, that is fine with me also. I had a look around and some, but not all, SHERPA/RoMEO Green publishers meet this condition (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo...). - Bill Hooker

"The makers of the commercial reference management application EndNote have sued an open source alternative called Zotero, claiming that its ability to import EndNote files violated its creators' software license. That case has now been dismissed, leaving Zotero in the clear." - Abhishek Tiwari from Bookmarklet

I wonder if this was that stupid software that injected patent notice text into the files it produced, as well as into OLE objects embedded into files created in other software... - Tyson Key

Excellent and gross in equal measures - Andrew Clegg

"Davis told The Scientist that he got the idea for this "little experiment" after receiving scores of spam emails soliciting article submissions and invitations to serve on editorial boards of open access journals from Bentham Science Publishers, TOISCIJ's publisher. According to its website, Bentham publishes "200 plus open access journals" that cover disciplines from bioinformatics and pharmacology to engineering and neuroscience. "One of the things that made Bentham catch our eye," Anderson said, "was that they were so aggressively soliciting manuscripts." " - Abhishek Tiwari from Bookmarklet

Quality stuff, marred only by their complete misunderstanding of 'context-free grammar' in the blog post. Sorry, linguistics nerd - Andrew Clegg

LOL - Andrew Clegg from twhirl

waiting for them to try to sue themselves out of this one - Mr. Gunn

+1 Mr Gunn - Bill Hooker