"Society is obsessed with the idea of talent and genius and people who are ‘naturals’ with innate ability,” says Ms. Dweck, who is known for research that crosses the boundaries of personal, social and developmental psychology." - Hutch Carpenter

Piece is so true. Doubtful that most recruiters do it. Sad - Charlie Anzman

reminds me of this Po Bronson article about praising kids for intelligence versus effort. “When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart, don’t risk making mistakes.” http://nymag.com/news/features... - David Vasileff

GE, Xerox, and IBM are unconvincing examples. The iPhone example is about selecting for people excited by risk and opportunity, which doesn't confirm anything about "believing in the power of talent". We've all met prima donnas who think they're superstars and mostly spend their time avoiding challenges (look at all those people pissed off by technical interviews which ignore their years of experience) but does it take "three decades of painstaking research" to figure out those people are bogus? - ⓞnor

It's never too late to grow and learn new things. - Bjorn Tipling

I also deleted any previous answers that had been entered so far, because I wasn't clear about how the data would be used. So if you've filled out the survey once, and are happy about your data being released, you'll need to do it again. - Michael Barton

re-posted the form on my blog. - Pierre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... should be enough to figure if you're covered. Data is anonymous and if everyone who takes place understands the data is to be released, not sure what the problem would be - Daniel Swan via twhirl

Cheers Dan. :) - Michael Barton

Michael, for Nationality, should I put "American" or "United States"? "American" is geographically (though not practically) ambiguous. Too bad those fields aren't drop-down boxes so the input is standardized and idiot proof. :-( - Chris Lasher

re-posted the survey as well. - Pedro Beltrao

I've only studied bioinformatics briefly but should be eligible to fill out the survey and I may be able to forward this to some researchers I know - Julian Baldwin

I, too, have very little time for all these networks, but it is horses for courses. For me personally, Facebook and MySpace do nothing, nor does Twitter. Friendfeed and Nature Network on the other hand are both great for what I do. I'm not a life scientist on the cutting edge of data sharing technology like you guys. Nature Network is an experimental site, and like all these community building enterprises, it is good for some things, not so good for others. It is not, and was never intended to be, a data-sharing site, for example. But, to take an example of its usefulness, many scientists are not very familar with the "social web" (the vast majority of Nature authors for example). Two ways in which they have used NN is (1) online discussion of Commentary material -- they feel a bit safer, I think (guess), commenting in our "News and Opinion" forum there, rather than on the open Internet -- and we've had some interesting views expressed, some of which have been published in the journal as a result; and (2) pre - Maxine

It's also depends on what you get out of a service. Facebook, for me at least, has little to do with science. I am miles away from home, my friends are spread out around the world (people I went to school and college with, as well as family and colleagues). That's the role Facebook fills. But in the scientific sense, the key is how can I get the most with the least effort. In the end, the internal marketplace in the head sorts it all out. - Deepak

It's true, services serve different roles. Facebook serves the role that Deepak described and does it well. I think too that we can learn from the design and code of social websites and apply that elsewhere, even if we're not interested in what the site offers. Facebook's usability is due in large part to Ajax, for example. We're all waiting for the science networking site with the right combination of features, usability and discovery via data. Imagine a FriendFeed-type interface to NCBI, or PDB. - Neil Saunders

I loved Papers, but I didn't renew my trial account. It made a lot of mistakes when I used the matching wizard, even when I used DOI to identify a PDF. But to answer your questions, I do not know of a similar app. - Kambiz Kamrani

The matching has got much *much* better in recent versions of Papers and I don't have mismatches anymore. Some DOI's don't always resolve, but that's rare. To stay on topic, just how much metadata do you want to associate with a powerpoint presentation? Maybe suck out all the text for searching? Does slideshare do this or is it just tagged? - Daniel Swan

It's a very useful software, but why only on that unusable system? - Pawel Szczesny

@Kambriz, I also tried an earlier version of Papers and didn't like it. The new version is better. - Maureen

Re Daniel's comment, thanks for free link. I give many talks and lectures and would like to sort through a library of slides to select versions of the same slide when composing a new presentation. Had a look at slideshare but it seems more for, well, sharing. - Maureen

@Maureen, ever look at Leap (Ironic Software)? from the makers of my preferred scientific .PDF organizer Yep... @Pawel, unusable? - dsbreak

@dsbreak, Call me frustrated - I don't have mac anymore ;) . But seriously I don't like OSX for many reasons (not enough linux experience - scientific software doesn't work, or installation is painful; unoptimized system and software etc.) and I tried few years to make it work. - Pawel Szczesny

@Pawel, out of curiosity, which types of scientific software have been difficult? wondering if it's one particular field (large scale sequence analysis, structural calculations, statistical packages, etc.) or in general - dsbreak

ESRC genomics network - research into sociology of data sharing in the biosciences. Issues of scale, organisation, technology. Social sciences trying to catch up with what is happening - Cameron Neylon

Been a request for me not to use names so I won't. Just report themes and comments. - Cameron Neylon

Research Information Network is starting up a project on Web2 tools in science - how are they useful? - Cameron Neylon

Mix of funders, scientists, sociologists and information managers - interesting group they've put together certainly - Cameron Neylon

Need both the willingness to share data and the tools to do so. NCRI working on systems for linking cancer resources together. Also interested in facilitating cultural change. Also talking to pharma about releasing data and trying to encourage that. Which company was it that made the recent announcement on pre-competitive data being made available? - Cameron Neylon

Is it possible to solve social issues with a technical solution? How to ensure acknowledgement for tool developers. Understanding the social issues associated with ontologies - move from OWL to SCOS(?) - do the possible technical solutions degrade quality? - Cameron Neylon

Idea of putting data sharing statements from grants in the public domain so people can check. How does BBSRC monitor compliance with data sharing. Issues of not very good data - should it be made public. Again we come back to the issue of sharing data that is not peer reviewed...and administrative load and predictability of that load, possible issues with IP that may arise in retrospect. The issue of 'hostile mining' of data e,g, animal experiments, stem cells etc. - Cameron Neylon

Answer back which is what I would have said - its important its out there and then you need a way to assess the quality. Peer review does not gauruntee data quality - Cameron Neylon

Science ethics course described given by scientists, lawyers, ethicists, economists etc - our (scientist's) perspective is just a perspective, and may not be a very good one. Other disciplines have very different (and possibly valid) perspectives. Potential ethical issues in pursuing sharing policies. - Cameron Neylon

Hit squad at NERC which aimed to provide every possible assistance to labs to get data into a database. Would go out, install computers, provide tools, support, be friendly (not sure about making coffee) etc etc. Sounds wonderful! - Cameron Neylon

Comment that the obsession with access control is less in companies (anyone in the company is perceived to have a 'right to see') than it is in academia. Some experiences that access control is more important to people than the tools. Scientists want control of where, how, and who can access their data. Prior disclosure is a serious issues for people coming to data sharing. - Cameron Neylon

Dataverse project- a loose database that can provide the data in reusable form close to the published papers. Interest from sociologists and cancer researchers (came out of WGS and gene expression data) - Cameron Neylon

JISC project to look at economic benefits of sharing data. Work has been done on costs but relatively little on economic benefits. - Cameron Neylon

Publications can't cope with presenting the data in their current form. If a data set is a terabyte, what goes in the paper? Current data transmission is insufficient. Funders not getting value for money. - Cameron Neylon

This was an introductory session with everyone introducing themselves - hence the collection of fairly scattering points - Cameron Neylon

BBSRC background - Data sharing policy: Policy has been in place for just over a year. Complements existing best practice guide for curation of data. 10 year period in a useable form is the BBSRC standard. *Biology is changing, large datasets, increasing use of datamining, increasing focus on QA and metadata. *Data sharing picked out early on as key area for Tools and Resources Strategy Panel, BBSRC should have leadership role in promoting appropriate research culture - Cameron Neylon

* BBSRC does not own data outputs (rights reside with institutions) but as a funder has interest in value for money. Is also a grant applicant (to government) *Development of data sharing policy to be inclusive and researcher led. Took three years over two stage consultation process - Cameron Neylon

From consultation exercise: Data sharing is a good thing! Critical (and well established) in some areas. Data sharing needs very different across different domains. IP and data sharing are tensioned. Should be no central silo. Decentralised sharing is preferred. Data should be close to the scientists (not sure what that actually means in practice - given how this flows into issues with Institutional repositories) - Cameron Neylon

Policy aim has two roles: Enforcement and aspirational signpost. Recognises the cost issues. Point out that data sharing is different to archival particularly with respect to costs. - Cameron Neylon

Other funders take different approaches - e.g. NERC has much more centralised approach. Potentially different issues in different domains. * BBSRC focusedd on big data and long time series but reserve the right to be more prescriptive in specific cases - Cameron Neylon

Where resources exist for sharing they should be used. If there is a need, create something, and ask for funding to do it! In some cases local ad hoc arrangements may be appropriate. * Will meet data sharing costs through FEC * Will provide resources to develop underpinning tools etc - Cameron Neylon

Issues of funding models - can ask for support in grant but will this work - serious problenmss in repositories charging for deposition. Wellcome trust model for OA where they deal with it and pay for it offline (independent from grant). Also a significant issues in training competent people to manage the curation process, where are these people? - Cameron Neylon