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...according to Popular Science - Angela E. Taylor

WOW indeed..... - Graham Steel

Maybe we need a run of "Give the finger to Ingelfinger" t-shirts? - Cameron Neylon from Android

My store is here:- http://www.zazzle.co.uk/steelgr... in which to date, I've had one shirt made for myself back in 2010. With myself as the sole purchaser.. One is clearly a sales whizzo.. (NOT) - Graham Steel

the tale of the famous #arseniclife study is a great example of the benefits of open science: http://t.co/w8jnDxPS - mathew ingram

there are other things than academia .... - Rajarshi Guha

Tags: lostart - Bill Hooker

Doubt the cost will be in reach of scientists- it will be something else for libraries to buy. Other WoS databases have an API so it will probably have one too - Christina Pikas from iPhone

Can you retrieve SFX records for stuff in your IR? - Meg V. Meg

Social media + open access = more downloads of paper. Not rocket science or even information science via @melissaterras http://t.co/nh3J8AzD - Cameron Neylon

It's already on my growing to-do list, honest... - Graham Steel

The Finch Report was commissioned by the UK Minister for Universities and Science to investigate possible routes for the UK to adopt Open Access for publicly funded research. The report was released last night and I have had just the chance to skim it over breakfast. These are just some first observations. Overall my impression is that the overall direction of travel is very positive but the detail shows some important missed opportunities. The Good The report comes out strongly in favour of Open Access to publicly funded research. Perhaps the core ... - Cameron Neylon

Yep. Mainstream. Pass the popcorn. This is starting to be fun! - RepoRat

Blame it on google. Why not. - Kubke

@Kubke What happened to the "sunshine", "moonlight", & "good times" #blameitonthegoogle ;-) - Graham Steel

Scientometrics (2012). Gualberto Buela-Casal, Izabela Zych et al. Published using Mendeley: The bibliography manager for researchers - Mr. Gunn

Every now and then something happens that gets me all excited about what comes next. Today, it is the launch of PeerJ Over 10 years ago I was approached by someone at a scientific conference who told me they were launching something that was to be called the Public Library of Science (PLoS), where people [...] - Kubke

As many of you know, before accepting a job at Scientific American, I worked at PLoS for three years (and became a vocal Open Access Evangelist even before that). While there, I worked closely with Pete Binfield who replaced Chris Surridge as managing editor of PLoS ONE shortly after my arrival there. Pete and I [...] - Bora Zivkovic

I've been sitting on this for a week! The embargo is finally lifted. - John Dupuis from iPhone

heeeeeee ftw! I did not know that. - RepoRat

Can you say "cracks in the dam" folks? :-) - Cameron Neylon

He's too good a guy to make a point of it. He's not the only one. WTF does Peter Suber live on, FFS? OA abuses its people. - RepoRat

"A new study in Cognition, led by Andrew Shtulman at Occidental College, helps explain the stubbornness of our ignorance. As Shtulman notes, people are not blank slates, eager to assimilate the latest experiments into their world view. Rather, we come equipped with all sorts of naïve intuitions about the world, many of which are untrue. For instance, people naturally believe that heat is a kind of substance, and that the sun revolves around the earth. (...) Science education is not simply a matter of learning new theories. Rather, it also requires that students unlearn their instincts, shedding false beliefs the way a snake sheds its old skin. (…) As expected, it took students much longer to assess the veracity of true scientific statements that cut against our instincts. (...) We never fully unlearn our mistaken intuitions about the world. We just learn to ignore them." - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Shtulman and colleagues summarize their findings: "When students learn scientific theories that conflict with earlier, naïve theories, what happens to the earlier theories? Our findings suggest that naïve theories are suppressed by scientific theories but not supplanted by them." (...) According to Dunbar, the reason the physics majors had to recruit the D.L.P.F.C. is because they were... more... - Amira

See also: Why people believe in strange things http://ff.im/EQlZn and Shtulman's study http://ff.im/Yo2Jo - Amira

In a swarm of buzzing mosquitoes, every insect probably looks the same to you. You wouldn’t notice that some have swollen abdomens, engorged with red blood, while others are hungry and empty. You wouldn’t differentiate between the antennae of the males (fluffy) and the females (straight). But there is one animal that can spot all of these traits, using eyes that have lower resolution than yours and a nervous system that’s far simpler. It’s Evarcha culicivora – the vampire spider. E.culicivora is an East African jumping spider that feeds on mammal blood. Don’t worry: it’s not going to bite you. This indirect vampire only attacks mosquitoes that have recently bitten mammals, and it’s an incredibly discerning diner. Jumping spiders are famously fussy anyway. They sit and wait for just the right victim to come along, spotting them with large eyes and pouncing upon them with well-judged leaps. Some eat other spiders, but only eat certain species. E.culicivora stalks mosquitoes, but it only...

There are two major strands to position of traditional publishers have taken in justifying the process by which they will make the, now inevitable, transition to a system supporting Open Access. The first of these is that the transition will cost “more money”. The exact costs are not clear but the, broadly reasonable, assumption is that there needs to be transitional funding available to support what will clearly be a mixed system over some transitional period. The argument of course is how much money and where it will come from, ... - Cameron Neylon