"thanks for this Alan. I know Richard has been thinking very seriously about open science. The genetics department still operate in as a very altrustic (some would say old fashioned) community where resources and money are shared centrally so that researchers without current grants can still continue to do benchwork. This is recognised, rightly, as essential. You can't get your next grant if you don't have any results, you can't get results if you don't have any money to buy reagents. I think what has been perculating is how much more could be done on this basis in a more highly shared and networked fashion outside the confines of the department? The economics may indeed force scientists down this route, but I think the world will be richer place for it."
- Jo Badge
"I doubt there will be many twossers at Science Online London ;-) Will be interesting to see what you think of the conference, the scientists I've spoken to certainly pricked up their ears when they heard where it was and who was hosting it (even though the hosts put me off, they still pull in the science punters)"
- Jo Badge
My only worries about SOL09 (ooh, is that a hashtag?) is that it's still preaching to the converted. I'm finding it much harder to come up with translational strategies which work "in the field".
- AJCann
"A great post Jay Jay and a good summary of the day. Don't be too hard on yourself, you did an amazing job :-). Organising meetings like this is a thankless task, it never goes as well as you thought it would and you get all the complaints since you are the organiser. The rest of us participants had a great time!!"
- Jo Badge
Use of a Mobile Phone to Stream Context Specific Audio Information to Students with Visual Impairment JISC TechDisHEAT2 Project Report 29/11/2007 Alasdair G Thin, a.g.thin@hw.ac.uk
- Jo Badge