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Welcome the newest SciBling! - http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
John (a.k.a. dendroica) and Neil Saunders liked this
Looks like one worth following.
- Neil Saunders
I agree. Very impressed so far.
- Bora Zivkovic
Looks interesting.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Faux Friendship - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/article...
bellegarde-webb, Tristan Hambling, Ruchira S. Datta and 2 other people liked this
""…[a] numberless multitude of people, of whom no one was close, no one was distant. …" —War and Peace "Families are gone, and friends are going the same way." —In Treatment We live at a time when friendship has become both all and nothing at all. Already the characteristically modern relationship, it has in recent decades become the universal one: the form of connection in terms of which all others are understood, against which they are all measured, into which they have all dissolved. Romantic partners refer to each other as boyfriend and girlfriend. Spouses boast that they are each other's best friends. Parents urge their young children and beg their teenage ones to think of them as friends. Adult siblings, released from competition for parental resources that in traditional society made them anything but friends (think of Jacob and Esau), now treat one another in exactly those terms. Teachers, clergymen, and even bosses seek to mitigate and legitimate their authority by asking...
more...
- Wildcat
from Bookmarklet
Stop calling it education-it's indoctrination, plain and simple!
- Aaron Kendrick
I suspect that even though the term "friendship" may apply more broadly, people still regard distant others in the same way WRT privacy and amount of time hanging out. There was an article I read a while back that surveyed students over time and found they kept the same # of "close friends" while the # of "friends" increased dramatically. I'll link you if I come across it.
- Arikia
tag: Dunbar
- Bora Zivkovic
RT @sdbn new blog post on Francis Collins' speech last night at #ascb: We Need More Sexy Scientists http://sdbn.org/2009...
Good. Except the title....
- Bora Zivkovic
@BoraZ is there a way for PLoS user to find all of the articles they've rated or commented on? If not, is it in the works?
It is on the To Do list. Which is a long list ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
:) thanks!
- Steve Koch
Introducing the (rigorously peer-reviewed, of course) PLoS store! - http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
Chris Lasher, Bill Anderson, Kubke and 2 other people liked this
I will <3 you forever if you add buttons.
- D0r0th34
they do have buttons. I know 'cause I got a bag with ~100 buttons in it a few months ago.
- Graham Steel
gotta love the permalink on that post...
- Cameron Neylon
LOL
- Graham Steel
Buttons as in "aluminum badges to put on a shirt" or as in "images that one puts on a website sidebar that serve as links"?
- Bora Zivkovic
The former, Bora, thanks. It's honestly sort of goofy that OA Week didn't have its own button store, but it didn't.
- D0r0th34
We have those in the store, here are some examples: http://www.zazzle.com/button-... http://www.zazzle.com/button-... http://www.zazzle.com/button-...
- Bora Zivkovic
Yay! I <3 you forever! (Could you add the straight-up small orange open-access one? I know it doesn't advertise PLoS, but you'd still get a kickback, yeah?)
- D0r0th34
How do I know these were rigorously peer-reviewed... :)
- Benjamin Tseng
Feel free to do your own post-manufacture peer-review. Then post a comment, note or rating. ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
i picked up a little orange open access button (no PLOS printed on it) at last year's science blogging conf, i think.
- Christina Pikas
yup, it's possible to get 'em, but you have to go through one of the custom button companies. I'm lazy. I want one-click ordering. :)
- D0r0th34
the URL for this post says "rigorously pee." I giggled.
- mjc
Actually, mjc has a point :)
- Micah Wittman
Everything we do should be rigorous!
- Bora Zivkovic
Hmm. I've got about 40 OA buttons left:- http://www.flickr.com/photos... After a quick rummage through, I can scientifically confirm that there are 14 of the straight-up small orange open-access ones:- http://www.flickr.com/photos... D, I'll see if I can teleport these to you directly.
- Graham Steel
So sad to see that "open access" underwear isn't available :(
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Err, steady on there, Brian... http://is.gd/4Xll1
- Graham Steel
+1 Graham Goggles and capes ala XKCD's Doctorow cartoon would be of perhaps niche interest, I suppose.
- Mr. Gunn
Was browsing through the PLoS store last nicht (Scottish for night) and I could not work out what to buy. Looking again today, there are 18 pages to stroll through. I can however exclusively report that Mum & Dad just bought me this PLoS Hamsters hoodie http://www.zazzle.com/hoodie_... for my birthday tomorrow. Nice.
- Graham Steel
"Thank you for your Zazzle order. The following items have been queued for shipment: Hoodie (Dark) - Basic Hooded Sweatshirt, Navy Blue, Adult L"
- Graham Steel
w00t! I also bought a couple of things myself today, to give as presents.
- Bora Zivkovic
For some reason, Ive always wanted a Hamsters Love PLoS thingy. Having considered the options, and whilst I sure ain't "a Hoodie" from the UK perspective:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I am well lookin' forward to wearing this purchasement. All of my OA garments are t-shirts. A warm winter sweatshirt (hood an option) plus that logo was 'I can haz' :-)
- Graham Steel
Can PLoS make some Hobermann spheres with toy hamster inside? :)
- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
LOL. Perhaps Sugar Gliders...
- Bora Zivkovic
I now haz my brand new Hamsters love PLoS Hoodie. Arrived this morning. Will be wearing it to work tomorrow :)
- Graham Steel
Open Science: Good for Research, Good for Researchers? - http://www.youtube.com/watch... (via http://friendfeed.com/mcdawg...)
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novoseek, Khalid Mirza, Bill Hooker and 2 other people liked this
There are complete videos on the Columbia site, but I have to say I like this mix....
- Bora Zivkovic
Hmmmm, not sure if I like the new Twitter.com display. What are the numbers for (they are not permanent)? Just more scrolling....
I hope it's just a bug.
- joey
According to a tweet from Scoble, it's "just a stylesheet loading problem." Mine's already reverted back.
- aldenoneil
Mine is going back and forth, on and off
- Bora Zivkovic
@threewickets Anonymous curmudgeon punks and self-styled guru bashers such as yourself need to come out of the closet and fight like men.
Josette Torres liked this
Darn, ten tweets -> ten old, worn-out curmudgeonly cliches, ending with a "please find me a business model, save my job, save my ass, please!"
- Bora Zivkovic
A Differential Effect of Heavy Water on Temperature-Dependent and Temperature-Compensated Aspects of the Circadian System of Drosophila pseudoobscura — PNAS - http://www.pnas.org/content...
Victor Ganata, Graham Steel, Jean-Claude Bradley and Björn Brembs liked this
1973 study of D2O on circadian rhythms. A good quote from introduction: "Many subsequent studies, the most important of which are those of Suter and Rawson (2) and Enright (3), indicate this effect of D20 is widespread: it lengthens r in unicellulars (1), green plants (4), isopods (3), insects (Caldarola, in preparation), birds (5, 6), mice, and hamsters (2, 5, 7, 8). The effect is clearly widespread and since no exceptions have been found in 12 cases, it is likely to be truly general. As several authors have noted, it therefore merits closer study as a potential clue to the physical nature of the cellular oscillation responsible for circadian rhythmicity."
- Steve Koch
@Bora, here's one for you!
- Steve Koch
This paper has a fantastic introduction that succinctly reviews all the ways in which deuterium can affect enzymatic properties. I haven't looked at any of the papers it cites, but the way in which they outline it is very much in line with what I've been thinking now.
- Steve Koch
Oh yes, this one is a classic in the field.
- Bora Zivkovic
Gotta like every drosi paper on FF :-)
- Björn Brembs
Thanks for letting me know it's a classic, Bora! I'm not surprised, but on the other hand, it's only been cited 7 times this century...and 40 times over all...what's with that?
- Steve Koch
Old paper in a small field. Very little was done since then on chemical influences - early on, people figured out that most chemicals and drugs did not affect the clock - except for heavy water and lithium. Thus they focused on other things - light, temperature, social entrainment, and later, of course, to figuring out the genetics and molecular biology. Only now some people are getting back to pharmaceuticals.....
- Bora Zivkovic
Thanks, Bora!
- Steve Koch
Been using http://twittertim.es for the past couple weeks and I've been really impressed at the service and @BoraZ's fantastic signal/noise!
Bora Zivkovic liked this
Thank you. I am trying to do as much mindcasting and as little lifecasting as possible. Also, last night was the last edition of Tweetlinks on my blog - by now, those who realize that I post good links on Twitter have moved there already, those who won't never will.
- Bora Zivkovic
Follow all three lists - let's get them up high on Listorious to break up the male dominance there.... ;-)
Yes, sir! :D And thanks for putting me one of of them. Honored! :)
- Helen Sventitsky
And when I went to check out your lists, Twitter crashed...
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Listorious seriously messed up these lists - #1 has 499 ppl, #2 has 500, #3 has 316. Not according to Listorious which lists them as having 20, 40 and 280!
- Bora Zivkovic
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants - http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
Jean-Claude Bradley liked this
fyi, I'm really enjoying these. There's no way I'd read through the registration list, but this way I get a good feel for who's coming.
- Bill Hooker
Thank you. That's the idea: I assume many will not slog through the whole list, so this way, piecemeal, one gets introduced to everyone.
- Bora Zivkovic
Science Literature - The story behind Darwin's warm little pond - http://www.arn.org/blogs...
Daniel Mietchen liked this
ah, what sophistry!
- Bora Zivkovic
Fwd: The podcast of the Skeptically Speaking radio show is now up: http://skepticallyspeaking.com/episode... #SITT #scio10 (via http://friendfeed.com/coturni...)
Graham Steel liked this
Nice one Bora. Man, there's gonna be free beer&wine at #scio10 - YAY. And looking for a bigger venue for 2011. Gosh, that's v. encouraging :)
- Graham Steel
Some will be free, some will be a very good deal, still negotiating with sponsors etc. too early in the game.
- Bora Zivkovic
Fwd: Ignite talks at ScienceOnline2010 - http://scienceblogs.com/clock... (via http://friendfeed.com/coturni...)
Have you shared this with Brady and the Ignite crew. I am sure they'll be happy to know
- Deepak Singh
We should - gotta put that on the To Do list....
- Bora Zivkovic
Reflections on Science 2.0 from a distance - Part I - http://blog.openwetware.org/science...
Mr. Gunn, Benjamin Tseng, Steve Koch and 6 other people liked this
Interesting point - could only track down Jon's tweet via Friendfeed. Possibly an argument for piping mine back in - or perhaps setting up a secondary account for archiving...
- Cameron Neylon
a secondary acct for archiving is a good idea.We tend to pull the RSS from tags on the day of any event and stick them in FF or google reader. Having an RSS feed of your own tweets into GR could work too. Tweetstream is definitely pretty transient these days.
- Jo Badge
I use FF as a searchable repository of my tweets, at least for now.
- Bora Zivkovic
The third para of that post was delightful. I also use FF exactly as Bora does, and to search for the tweets of some others. In fact I've toyed with setting up 'imaginary friends' of people / corporate tweets which don't have an FF account for this purpose but haven't got round to it yet. I really don't use FF enough!
- Jo Brodie
Love it: "...the natural unit of science research is the blog post".
- Bill Hooker
I have 12 Google Wave invites - who wants one?
Hmmmm. I'm begging for one ^_^
- Cassie peakie
Oh, and you'll have to leave your email, or I can't invite you...
- Björn Brembs
cinnamonstyck@gmail.com<-----me
- Cassie peakie
I'd like one! organelas at gmail dot com
- Bruno C. Vellutini
Yes please! gray.noah at gmail dot com
- Noah Gray
edmund.dipple@btinternet.com much appreciated!
- Edmund Dipple
please send me an invite... ms.ashley88 at gmail dot com it would be greatly appreciated!
- Laura
Ok, there's one left, everyone who contacted me so far got one
- Björn Brembs
on my knees for one dahaniel at googlemai dot com :)
- Dahaniel
Done, all gone!
- Björn Brembs
was i able to get one?
- Laura
Wow, that was quick, less than 10 minutes...
- Björn Brembs
and me?
- Dahaniel
:D
- Dahaniel
Nice social experiment
- Egon Willighagen
@Laura and Dahaniel, yes you're on the list
- Björn Brembs
thank you so much!!
- Laura
I'm watching my inbox with sad, hopeful eyes....^_^
- Cassie peakie
thanks! lucky me that I stayed for the Vodka session in our lab, otherwise I would have missed it :)
- Dahaniel
I thought I'd set this off and then check in the morning. Good I waited for a few minutes...
- Björn Brembs
yes please - simoncoles@gmail.com
- Simon Coles
did you send them already? nothing in my inbox or in spam...
- Dahaniel
All the emails are now with Google. I have no idea when they'll send the accounts out. Last time around, it took a couple of weeks.
- Björn Brembs
Thanks Björn!! Just got in..
- Bruno C. Vellutini
Thanks Björn; just got mine today...
- Noah Gray
I could use one, please -- PeterAtOhioLINK@gmail.com
- Peter Murray
OK, Peter, you've been invited.
- Carl Fulp
Carl - I could use one, if you have any free - simoncoles@gmail.com
- Simon Coles
OK, Simon, you've been invited.
- Carl Fulp
Many thanks, Carl.
- Peter Murray
I have 15 or so left.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
dupuisj@gmail.com if anyone has an invite left. Thanks!
- John Dupuis
If anyone has any left: bentleywg@gmail.com . Thanks!
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
I invited you John
- Christina Pikas
@christina, I did too :P Got one for you too Betsy.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
For everyone here, feel free to invite me (whatever that means): gray.noah@googlewave.com
- Noah Gray
May I have one too? pawel at FreelancingScience com
- Pawel Szczesny
Yeah, feel free to add me to your contacts... brian.j.krueger@googlewave.com
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Brian: Thanks! (c'mon, gmail)
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
I invited you, Pawel.
- Carl Fulp
Thanks Carl!
- Simon Coles
I lost track, if there is still some invites in the mix, but if so, feel free to invite the olchemist at gma!l dot çom
- Oliver Schuster
ppl, I have several invites, if anyone needs. Just invited you, Oliver.
- Bruno C. Vellutini
I've received my invite, but how does one get invites to give away? Did I miss a message somewhere?
- Mickey Schafer
that is also my question. I got invited quite a while ago, playing a little, but could not find a way to invite others?
- Bora Zivkovic
have yet to receive an invite :(
- Christopher Harris
I think those who received the invitation from Google itself got 20 invites to give (there is a wave with them). People invited by a regular user that had invitations can't invite others.
- Bruno C. Vellutini
Carl, invite just came. Thanks a lot!
- Pawel Szczesny
Carl, my invite just came through - thanks!
- Simon Coles
hey anyone have an invite i desperately want one Cyberfennec (att )gmail(d 0t)c0m
- keegan maloney
The challenge: inbox zero by Monday morning. - The Obstacle: 5,780 emails with 4,133 unread. - Gear: Coffee & Spotify. When do I start? Now!
ffcode, Tamara, Bora Zivkovic and 8 other people liked this
*gasps*
- Admiral Anika
Update: 5709 emails with 4087 still unread - need to speed up the pace!
- Wayne Sutton
just filled out my Peoplepond profile due to verification email. http://www.peoplepond.com/waynesu... back to kung fu
- Wayne Sutton
to many emails require me to click on something, I guess that's the purpose
- Wayne Sutton
darn safari crashing slowing up my process
- Wayne Sutton
Glad time is going back an hour, that means it's only 12:14!!
- Wayne Sutton
Crazy, one email caused me to create a google form, a google doc and edit two pages on a blog.... :(
- Wayne Sutton
That's one should have been put into the "Get to it LATER" file.
- Admiral Anika
I wish, it was one I had to deal with because it affected other emails that I have to deal with
- Wayne Sutton
Update: 5,255 emails - 3,752 unread... :(
- Wayne Sutton
This is me not complaining about the 1500 emails I have. ---> *drinks MORE wine*
- Admiral Anika
#VampireMode is in full effect!
- Wayne Sutton
crap! found a very important email ....fail, fail, fail
- Wayne Sutton
I hope you have some Red Bull.
- Admiral Anika
...i'ma let you finish that, but I thought I had the craziest inbox of all time... apparently not. .LOLz!
- .LAG liked that
.Lag, funny
- Wayne Sutton
No Red Bull but about to get some more coffee
- Wayne Sutton
Nice, I sat still and just went back in time!
- Wayne Sutton
You must be part cyborg. Here I am all the way on the west coast, ready for bed. You're still working.
- Admiral Anika
a VampireCyborg FTW
- Wayne Sutton
Ok, I'm done for the night, going to set the clocks and call it a night
- Wayne Sutton
Night one update: 4,631 emails with 3,300 unread :(
- Wayne Sutton
Good afternoon, back to the email grind. 4,595 emails with 3277 unread,
- Wayne Sutton
Yesterday it was spotify today its Pandora with the shabba ranks channel! Rudeboy!
- Wayne Sutton
I tell you Housecall never gets old... Shabba!
- Wayne Sutton
Here comes the HotStepper!
- Wayne Sutton
I'm the lyrical gangsta!
- Admiral Anika
Break time! need a warm cup off coffee
- Wayne Sutton
Update: 3,270 emails - 2,371 unread
- Wayne Sutton
It's easy. Declare bankruptcy.
- Kevin Gamble
I can't do it Kevin... I want to but need to scan through the chaos
- Wayne Sutton
Lunch break,
- Wayne Sutton
When you do this, do you start by the oldest emails first or by whatever is on top?
- Admiral Anika
what's on top, back to the choas!
- Wayne Sutton
Found a beta invite to http://www.threadsy.com in my inbox FTW.. :)
- Wayne Sutton
They want your email password. :(
- Admiral Anika
I keep seeing invites to join: echowaves.com anyone using it?
- Wayne Sutton
Glad you got to my messages - better late than never ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
HA! yes Bora :) - see that's why I can't just declare email bankruptcy
- Wayne Sutton
time to switch music, had enough reggae today!
- Wayne Sutton
Update: 1,951 emails with 1,421 unread emails. going to take another break at 5pm, lets go!
- Wayne Sutton
Damn man, that's bigger than my Google Reader unread count!
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
to much traveling the past few weeks, a lot of it is, linkedin, pitches, facebook, newsletters, etc :(
- Wayne Sutton
Funny I think most of my email responses are in 140 characters or less :)
- Wayne Sutton
Found another beta invite, this time for a site called: http://www.popscreen.com
- Wayne Sutton
another beta invite: http://www.clicker.com
- Wayne Sutton
Update: inbox 1,336 emails - unread 981 - almost there!
- Wayne Sutton
Break Time though :(
- Wayne Sutton
Just watched a good movie with wife, going to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and back to inbox zero! should be done by 10pm or sooner. What do you think?
- Wayne Sutton
dear people of email, please do not write any emails that has more than 2 paragraphs
- Wayne Sutton
3 paragraphs to me; 1 sentence back... and thats an action item. short and to the point.
- Wayne Sutton
You'd hate getting emails from my husband. He writes books.
- Admiral Anika
time for some Michael Jackson. Spotify has the This is it album online ...hoooooooo
- Wayne Sutton
Beta invite #4 to a site called: https://www.lifeio.com anyone using it?
- Wayne Sutton
So close! 459 emails with 379 unread
- Wayne Sutton
almost there and losing focus
- Wayne Sutton
*waves pom-poms* You can do it! You can do it! You know you can!
- Admiral Anika
41 emails with 24 unread! This is it!
- Wayne Sutton
Dude this is intense. How'd it build up like this? (hint: try filters)
- Schadenfreude
Inbox Zero 1 hr before my goal.. thanks for the comments and putting up with me, lol
- Wayne Sutton
I need a computer break now... slowly stepping away from the keyboard
- Wayne Sutton
Way to go man
- Schadenfreude
thanks, I have a headache
- Wayne Sutton
wow - congratulations! I haven't been at Inbox Zero in something like 5 years. But I try to get down to Inbox 20 every night before bed. At Inbox 22 right now. Two to go.
- Bora Zivkovic
Inbox 16, but all of those require a lot of work - e.g., instructions for writing a paper and such...have to leave them for later....
- Bora Zivkovic
wow Bora, 5yrs? but I understand, I have a few action emails and some assigned to do later
- Wayne Sutton
or you could just set up a new acct! i have about that many and if I could figure out how to easily fwd emails that I want (only) to it, I would just dump the old one:)! good luck!
- Heather O'Sullivan Canney
Great going, keep us posted on how you did it or how you progressed...
- TrafficBug
how I did it? Simple: delete, archive, delete, reply, delete more
- Wayne Sutton
I, for one, love the Realtime Feed on Facebook - it's just like FriendFeed and why I love it. Amused by Fb-ers who are rebelling.
Neil Saunders and Graham Steel liked this
we still need a 'ban all idiot applications flooding the feed' button. i have more than 50 banned, but new ones pop up every day, and sometimes i can't see if something at least slightly interesting was posted.
- Endre Sebestyen
LOL. I just go to FB once a day, usually late at night, and click on all the "Ignore" buttons for all the invitations to silly apps.
- Bora Zivkovic
consider: http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- claudia
Is anybody coming early to the conference? I'll be there already on Wednesday afternoon.
Bora Zivkovic liked this
Hmmm, perhaps ask that question on the 'carpooling and room-sharing' page on the wiki. At least some locals may be interested. Perhaps you can visit Carrboro Creative Coworking space. Or do some other science-y stuff: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
Possibly, as I have family in the area. Haven't worked out my own schedule yet.
- D0r0th34
I was going to fly in on Thursday this time... I may try to switch to Wednesday though. I will let you know as we get closer to the date.
- Bill Hooker
<sniffs> yet again, I won't make it in person :-(
- Graham Steel
Fwd: Coming to #scio10? Start signing up for Workshops: http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index... just edit that wiki page, add number and your name. (via http://friendfeed.com/coturni...)
Steve Koch liked this
Is it just the two one-hour workshops we need to sign up for?
- Steve Koch
Yes, choose one 10am and one 11am workshop to attend
- Bora Zivkovic
Dunbar number is not what you think it is - Seth does not grasp it: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
Joe Bonner, Schadenfreude, Dan Freeman and Micah Wittman liked this
"tag: Dunbar"
- Bora Zivkovic
Bora, are these points what your getting at: http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/2007... ?
- Micah Wittman
Yes
- Bora Zivkovic
Fwd: If FriendFeed does not die by then, we'll use this Room for live coverage of #scio10: http://friendfeed.com/science... if not - GoogleWave? (via http://friendfeed.com/coturni...)
Steve Koch, Björn Brembs and Graham Steel liked this
FF has been really sluggish lately. Perhaps everyone at the conference will have access to Google Wave by January?
- Bora Zivkovic
Not a gambling person, but at a reasonable guess, I would guess that for circa Jan 2010, (unless hit by meteorite), FF will remain stable, as matters stand. As such, live-coverage via this FF room remains choice #1. As matters stand, I think that it might be not unreasonable to say that #wave might/could be a more interesting alternative, but I don't currently see this as being a viable option for #scio this year. Next year??
- Graham Steel
Oh the irony ;-) I composed my comment before Bora although I was boiling Tortellini during the process. I plead "I wuz cookin'"
- Graham Steel
I suppose a robot could be used to copy content to / fro friendfeed and wave?
- Steve Koch
If friendfeed's not around, someone better get cracking on a better client for Wave, because otherwise it's going to be unfollowable.
- Mr. Gunn
Coming to Twitter: Create Sharable Lists of Users - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Could the scientwist list become "official"? #science Should we start a campaign? http://j.mp/4t1ErO HT @BoraZ [from http://twitter.com/science...]
- David Bradley
@BoraZ Perhaps it should be coupled with that at http://sciencepond.com/ somehow?
- Daniel Mietchen
I now have access to Twitter lists, it doesn't look like there's an easy way to import the scientwist list...need someone with API skills...
- David Bradley
the issue with lists is you can only add people you follow, and lists are owned by individual users
- Richard Akerman
you can add people you don't follow to your lists
- Bora Zivkovic
I assume there is a large overlap between David's list and http://sciencepond.com/ list. Is there anyone on http://sciencepond.com/ that is NOT also on David's list? It is unfortunate, but the Twitter lists have to be built manually (for now, at least). It's a pain, but once done, lists are amazingly useful.
- Bora Zivkovic
A PhD is not a 9-to-5 http://network.nature.com/people...
Oliver Schuster, Benjamin Tseng, Björn Brembs and 3 other people liked this
From the comments, @brembs: "I found the best advice to be that you spend as much time in the lab as you *like*. If the lab pulls you out of bed in the morning and you have to find some activity (sports, music, friends) to drag you out of it in the evening, you’ll be fine. If some clock rules your lab hours, something is wrong." --hands-down the best advice to an intending grad student that I have ever seen.
- Bill Hooker
Funny how I liked that comment the best myself.
- Bora Zivkovic
Mind the caveat, though: today, there are fields which are ruled by the clock and their number is growing.
- Björn Brembs
Is any job a 9-5? None I've worked at
- Deepak Singh
I think this is correct to a degree. You have to be in the lab for as long as your experiment requires, I often had 14 hour experiments to do. Your experiments dictate your time, but then you plan your experiments and your day/week/month in line with this. If you have worked 50 hours in the first 3 days of the week and your experiment is finnished, then you stop working for the rest of the week
- Frank
Well, my inner clock works me more like 10-7 but I believe 9-5 is plenty if you WORK. Much better than hanging around day and night to be seen by the supervisor, but doing nothing. You have to be able to cope with the 24-7 folks' comments though...
- Oliver Schuster
RT @timoreilly "Social Web feels 'a bit like Back to the Future' for people who have a long history with the Internet." http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
Meryn Stol liked this
The concept of "tacit knowledge" is very interesting.
- Mickey Schafer
Oh yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I use it all the time when explaining to people why they should post comments on papers - to preserve the tacit knowledge to the next generation
- Bora Zivkovic
That's a nice point, Bora. I will use that to encourage students to participate more. Also explains why reading comments is important.
- Mickey Schafer
RT @base10: @howardweaver There's annual conf. in Jan of ~250 scientists educators and bloggers in the Raleigh area talking Open Access etc.
Yup - and there's a FF room for it: http://friendfeed.com/science...
- Bora Zivkovic
Love it when #PLoS papers get re-used on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Marcos de Carvalho, Brian Krueger - LabSpaces, Mr. Gunn and 2 other people liked this
Absolutely, and wouldn't it appropriate for this user-generated video to be linked directly to the Manu. in question. Wait? Holy Spiderz... how did this happen :-) http://www.plosone.org/annotat...
- Graham Steel
LOL!
- Bora Zivkovic
Nice one Graham.
- Bill Hooker
Alerted the author who said:- "Thanks, a already saw the video. Not sure I understand. Who made it? Matjaz". NACProductions1 based in the UK I think, was my reply.
- Graham Steel
I had wondered whether it was anything to do with this business model: http://www.wired.com/magazin...
- Peter Binfield
Seems like a reasonable call, Pete.
- Graham Steel
Excellent number of views though (considerably more than the paper itself has...)
- Peter Binfield
Actually, I take that back! I last looked at the paper yesterday, since which time it's views have increased by about 26,000!
- Peter Binfield
Wow - that's good :) I've emailed the person who uploaded the video and asked them to consider placing a link to the PLoS ONE Manu in the video information tab... ++UPDATE++ they now have. xlnt !!
- Graham Steel
Okay, so Florida is not such an exotic location, but our banana spiders (golden-orb) spin huge webs, and I've had to scramble to avoid walking into web that spanned 5-6 feet.
- Mickey Schafer
Interesting, Mickey. We might need to consult with these guys for further input:- http://is.gd/4xTHT ;-)
- Graham Steel
These are pretty well-known spiders here (the golden orbs; there is a brazilian banana spider that is actually horribly toxic) -- I leave their webs up all around the house because they eat grasshoppers like crazy -- have had them riding on my shoulders when clearing brush, and once on my calf...turns out they have very velvety-feeling undersides, and are the only spider that doesn't make me want to run screaming to someplace like Antarctica. "2 Princes"? One of my favorite tunes!
- Mickey Schafer
Spinning (sorry) back to PLoS EVERYONE from 2 days ago, it's worth tying in the post Worth a Thousand Threads http://everyone.plos.org/2009... into this one. Having re-read it, I see that there is a somewhat sombre note to this discovery and I must pass on my regards to Dr Matjaž Kunter in respect of the sad loss of their best friend Andrej Komac who died in an accident at the time of the discoveries. This I have now done.
- Graham Steel
John Wilbanks: I have seen the paradigm shift, and it is us: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us...
Cameron Neylon, Jill O'Neill, Shirley Wu and Mickey Schafer liked this
great read -- at least three lines that belong in "quotes" for great writing lists!
- Mickey Schafer
which three? can you copy and paste here for everyone to see?
- Bora Zivkovic
Sure, Bora, but my selections have more to do with aesthetic reaction than information -- things that made me laugh or just go "yeah, that was nicely put."
- Mickey Schafer
#1: "I can encode a lovely simulation on my screen in which there is no theory of gravity, but if I attempt to drive my car off a cliff, empiricism is going to bite my backside on the way down."
- Mickey Schafer
#2 (this is for the info, too) "Data is not sweeping away the old reality. Data is simply placing a set of burdens on the methodologies and social habits we use to deal with and communicate our empiricism and our theory, on the robustness and complexity of our simulations, and on the way we expose, transmit, and integrate our knowledge."
- Mickey Schafer
#3 "Changing the public nature of the Internet threatens its very existence. This is not intuitive to those of us raised in a world of rivalrous economic goods and traditional economic theory. It makes no sense that Wikipedia exists, let alone that it kicks Encyclopedia Britannica to the curb."
- Mickey Schafer
#4: "As Galileo might have said, however, “And yet it moves.” [6] Wikipedia does exist, and the network—a consensual hallucination defined by a set of dry requests for comments—carries Skype video calls for free between me and my family in Brazil." (part of my appreciation for this derives from my trip to Rome, where I caught the Galileo exhibit at the Santa Maria del Angieli)
- Mickey Schafer
Love them all - all four. Thank you.
- Bora Zivkovic
#5: "Software built on the model of distributed, small contributions joined together through technical and legal standardization was another theoretical impossibility subjected to a true Kuhnian paradigm shift by the reality of the Internet. The ubiquitous ability to communicate, combined with the low cost of acquiring programming tools and the visionary application of public copyright licenses, had the strangest impact: it created software that worked, and scaled."
- Mickey Schafer
Guess I can't count 'cause there's one more: #6 "Eben Moglen provocatively wrote in 1999 that collaboration on the Internet is akin to electrical induction—an emergent property of the network unrelated to the incentives of any individual contributor." -- this one in particular helps provide a frame for understanding what happens "out here" -- I think this is what I try to get across to students.
- Mickey Schafer
@Scobleizer scientists are using FF a lot, especially for liveblogging conferences in Rooms/Groups. I don't see any of them leaving soon.
Jean-Claude Bradley, Joe Silence is not dead, Kol Tregaskes and 15 other people liked this
Bora, great point. The activity in private rooms--even rooms in general--is under the radar.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Unfortunately there's nowhere to go. Nothing has FF's functionality, and the stuff being added to Twitter isn't going to close the gap significantly. Wave has some potential in time.
- Kevin Gamble
I still feel that Wave is orthogonal to FF in terms of its native functionality. You could build something in Wave but not sure that it would work neatly. The key success here in FF has been the way that communities have come together and that people can come in from the outside via search. We may simply have to build or adapt something for ourselves.
- Cameron Neylon
from twhirl
Again: I'm not saying that FriendFeed will go away. Just that its growth will stagnate for a period and then it'll either see growth because of new microcommunities like yours that find it useful or something else will come along that enables new communities and you all will go there. Either way, FriendFeed's "death" is due to the fact that they aren't working on it anymore.
- Robert Scoble
I agree with Micah. I've been here, but not using/posting much to my main feed.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Bora: To Robert's point, seems to me a mature Wave might end up being better for that than FF.
- Christopher A Carr
I agree with Robert - his post is reasonable. I am mostly reacting to http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... and the reactions to that. Too doomsdayish.
- Bora Zivkovic
only the immortal are changeless.
- Joe Silence is not dead
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