Daniel Mietchen

"If you combine Project Natal with Emotiv's neuroheadset you could create an amazing interface - full body motion plus thought control - really post-human type interaction. The only thing missing would be sensory feedback." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Daniel says on the last slide, "The issue is whether or not to do science in the open, especially if you are a young researcher." This issue really hit home with me tonight, as today I finally assembled all the OKs from collaborators and program managers to carry out our DNA unzipping / chromatin mapping experiments as open science. Such a relief to get everyone on board, and very exciting...especially if we actually manage to get funded :) - Steve Koch

I noticed these attribution stacks too and thought about removing them. However, the talk was targeted at a rather uninitiated audience, and so I left them in and pointed out on one slide that I am, in the spirit of the whole talk, reusing slides from someone who has reused them from someone else, even though they do not necessarily know each other personally. In the long run, I would... more... - Daniel Mietchen

"The results of the study show that wealthier countries, though they have predominantly better science and enforcement capabilities, face the negative repercussions of excessive subsidies and larger fishing capacity, which have resulted largely from increased modernization of national fleets. The only attribute in which poorer and wealthier countries overlapped significantly was their limited ability to convert scientific recommendations into policy. " - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

/* Components of the scientific method */ - Daniel Mietchen

This encyclopedic article on the scientific method is up for approval in two weeks, and comments would be much appreciated. - Daniel Mietchen

[[List of scientific journals]] moved to [[CZ:List of scientific journals]]: list not suitable for main namespace - Daniel Mietchen

"is it possible to measure the contribution, even relative, of a scientist in any particular field without bias by relying on metrics? The answer is no." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

right he is, though it might be useful to remind him of the possibility of post-publication peer review. - Daniel Mietchen

"SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access in Particle Physics Publishing, proposes an innovative economic model to achieve Open Access to peer-reviewed literature in high-energy physics (HEP). The model seeks to, (using current funding levels as a starting point), redirect subscription expenditures to ensure open access and work to contain costs - and in doing so, achieve more value than is possible within a subscription-based system." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

"In June 2009 a study was completed that had been commissioned by Knowledge Exchange and written by Professor John Houghton, Victoria University, Australia. This report on the study was titled: "Open Access – What are the economic benefits?: A comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark." In the three national studies the costs and benefits of scholarly communication were compared based on three different publication models. The modelling revealed that: the greatest advantage would be offered by the Open Access model, which means that the research institution or the party financing the research pays for publication and the article is then freely accessible. Adopting this model could lead to annual savings of around EUR 70 million in Denmark, EUR 133 million in The Netherlands and EUR 480 in the UK. The report concludes that the advantages would not just be in the long term; in the transitional phase too, more open access to research results would have positive effects. In this case the benefits would also outweigh the costs." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

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"Looking Good on Paper The gold standard of the peer-reviewed scientific paper has barely changed in form since its inception over 300 years ago. However, with more and more scientists communicating research findings in digital format in many different ways does the notion of the scientific ‘article’ itself remain relevant? Is the traditional research paper still the optimal format for the dissemination of the outputs of scientific research? If not, what are the alternatives? Video Killed the Methods Section More and more scientific findings are ‘born digital’. The traditional format of research article is being transformed into a multi-media digital object with linked content, video, audio, datasets and reader annotation. This raises new possibilities and challenges. How should these newer types of content be peer reviewed? Are researchers really able to make the most of them? Does a link to a dataset or image always provide sufficient context to enable informed re-use or validation?... more... - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Nice to see that you plan to go there, Fiona and Cameron! - Daniel Mietchen

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"It is the objective of the conference to further the exchange of ideas among established as well as upcoming young researchers, politicians, business people, and decision-makers. Eminent speakers such as Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, Homi K. Bhabha, Paul Collier and Nancy Birdsall have already confirmed their participation. The Volkswagen Foundation offers up to 100 grants for highly motivated young researchers from all over the world and invites them to attend the conference, take part in the plenary sessions, topical workshops, and panel discussions." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Limitations: (1) 140 chars is too limited to accomodate a typical URI, (2) needs to be coupled to author ID, (3) only one rating dimension as of now. - Daniel Mietchen

hReview supports multiple rating dimensions if the site could use it - Mike Chelen

"An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Daniel: :-) witty witty, drop them a line - Claudia Koltzenburg

"Everyone's a winner, right? Wrong, says Vincent Kiernan, associate dean at Georgetown University, journalist, and journalism scholar. Embargoes have become an addiction for journalists, he said, a set of "velvet handcuffs" that simply eats up time and resources that could be better spent digging up scoops. Not only does it turn journalists into propagandists for scientists and academic journals, it also reduces science to an artificial series of 'eureka' moments. Indeed, there's no evidence that stories written under embargo are any better than those which are not, he added. And in a time when media companies are struggling, the ones that will survive are those which provide unique content - not those who follow the pack and write the same stories about science that everyone else is writing." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

I'm in total agreement with Kiernan. PNAS is the worst: their embargo is usually a week. Thus, distorted sensationalist press coverage stands for that long before scientists can read the paper. Ridiculous! I'm curious to see the outcome of The Lancet experiment... - The Neurocritic

"Die kontinuierliche Beobachtung von Trends und die korrekte Einschaetzung von Entwicklungen in der Wissenschaft bilden wichtige Grundpfeiler für ein erfolgreiches Zukunftsmanagement. Bibliometrie als eine Methode der Trenderkennung steht hierbei im Mittelpunkt der Dissertation. Bibliometriker versuchen durch die statistische Auswertung von wissenschaftlichen Veroeffentlichungen Trends in Wissenschaft und Forschung zu erkennen, ihren Verlauf zu beobachten und Aussagen ueber ihre moegliche Entwicklung zu treffen." - past citation trends in the time frame of years, that is. - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet