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BioGang Classics
A place to collect must-read, must-remember items for the biogang. Hat-tip: Cameron, Pawel (see first item).
Mateusz Koryciński to Mateusz's feed, The Life Scientists, Bioinformatics Central, BioGang Classics, Biology
What do you use to manage all publications, e-books etc. on your computer? Zotero / CitULike / Mendeley? I'm looking for something with possibility to sync library between two or more computers. I know that both Zotero and Mendeley can do this, but unfortunately they keep permanent copy of library on a server and free space is pretty small.
Dave Lunt liked this
DNA molecules can 'teleport', Nobel Prize winner claims: http://news.techworld.com/persona...
Heikki Lehvaslaiho, #cryptic and Khader Shameer liked this
Fwd: Improbable Research Classic: How to write a scientific paper by Robert Schulman h/t to Martin Klotz - http://www.improbable.com/airchiv... (via http://friendfeed.com/treeofl...)
Fwd: How to choose a good scientific problem? http://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb... (via http://friendfeed.com/the-lif...)
Why people do not comment online articles? What is wrong with the online commenting system? I think this is one of the central issues in Science 2.0. Here is the test case, which is very demonstrative: http://friendfeed.com/the-lif... (via http://friendfeed.com/science...)
“I'm thinking about putting a proposal to bring our data resources kicking and screaming into the Semantic Web. I'm thinking RDF publishing, Linked Data compliance, microformats, ontological tagging. Has anyone been involved in a project like this? Anyone care to share experiences or ideas?” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
re-posted to Biogang Classics for Archiving
- Pierre Lindenbaum
Why God Will Never Get Tenure - http://www.gettingintogradschool.com/book...
You and Your Research - http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins...
Marcos de Carvalho, Michael Barton, pn and Mr. Gunn liked this
This is the single greatest essay on a practical to research.
- Bosco Ho
Printed and read this last night. It's very interesting.
- Michael Barton
Can a biologist fix a radio? - http://freelancingscience.com/2008...
Jan Aerts liked this
"shows the emerging necessity to create formalized language designed to describe complicated systems of regulation of biochemical processes in living cells"
- Bill Hooker
see also: http://www.nature.com/nature...
- Bill Hooker
Also similar: http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/people...
- Pawel Szczesny
How to Think - Managing brain resources in an age of complexity. - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...
Bill Hooker, Chris Miller and Marcin liked this
Work on stuff that matters: first principles - Tim O'Reilly - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
Deepak Singh liked this
The Triumvirate of Scientific Data - http://peanutbutter.wordpress.com/2008...
Nicolas Bertrand and Bill Hooker liked this
hum... resharing does not provide a link to the original post on FF...
- Pierre Lindenbaum
@Pierre: the word "Reshare" is a link to the original post.
- Bill Hooker
@Bill yes ! thank you !
- Pierre Lindenbaum
“"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. "—Richard P. Feynman” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Deepak Singh liked this
We need to change the system - http://mndoci.com/blog...
Mr. Gunn, Deepak Singh and Alexey liked this
As Pawel points out in comments: "This is something that should be posted every two weeks. We tend to focus on things that make us more efficient in the current system, instead of questioning its foundation (publication pressure) and seeking long term solutions."
- Bill Hooker
good point - "we need to change system", but only discussion about it is not enough. So how scientific blogosphere can make it? What should we do to make it happened?
- Alexey
Neil, couldn't agree more. I've met enough people who are very happy with the way things are, and they are reasonable people, so it can't all be bad. That said, there is so much that can be put on the back of the "publish or perish" model that we need to keep pegging away
- Deepak Singh
As Alexey and Neil pointed out, there should be a framework that translates an idea/discussion into actual examples, or I would say products. The issue raised by this post (i.e. open science system) has been discussed by a lot of people, but no one came up with actual solutions or even great examples. I also discussed about the way most scientific blogs are and what to do to actually make a difference in details on my website: http://pangeables.blogspot.com/2008...
- JWS
I don't know about frameworks. Prefer individuals taking the initiative like Jean-Claude, Cameron, Shirley, etc are doing, and somewhere along the way, the chasm will be crossed. I don't think it needs to be the scientific blogosphere doing it per se, but the community in general. We can/should highlight examples, and yes complaining about what's wrong only goes so far.
- Deepak Singh
The MIAME of open science :)
- Deepak Singh
"Last Lecture" - Randy Pausch - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Andrew Perry, Adam Kraut and arek liked this
“I wish I could sort pubmed results on the 'Impact Factor'” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
The Power of the Marginal - http://www.paulgraham.com/margina...
"If most of your ideas aren't stupid, you're probably being too conservative. You're not bracketing the problem." -- worth remembering!
- Bill Hooker
Building scientific communities - http://mndoci.com/blog...
Capturing biology one model at a time - http://pbeltrao.blogspot.com/2008...
On the Erosion of the Public Domain - john wilbanks' blog - http://network.nature.com/blogs...
where the idea for this room came from, also vital insight/satori for Open Science geeks
- Bill Hooker
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