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!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) - Heather Piwowar

also, not just good for you, Heather - but good for the rest of us who care (and/or want someone else to care) about tracking altmetrics. :-) - $tephanie•Gardening

"learning outcome." *tears hair* - RepoRat

Astonishing story of how a family built a place for themselves, alone in the world. - Michael Nielsen

omg, this drives me nuts. THANK YOU. - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

I less than three this thread. :D - Lisa | #TeamMonique

Liam ended up being the first Wikipedian-in-Residence, at the British Museum, helping curators and Wikipedians alike share the Museum's immense treasures with the world via Wikipedia articles. Other cultural institutions ...

A thought-provoking essay. He describes the Lisp Curse as follows: "Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in Lisp." There's a lot of problems with this formulation; his examples are pretty compelling, however. - Michael Nielsen

Would you state some examples of the problems you see with his formulation ? - Clark Kent

When my research took a turn for the numerical about 3 years ago I seriously looked into lisp, because it seems ideally suited to what a physicist wants: it's dynamically typed, does all the memory management for you, a small "vocabulary" (so easy to learn and remember), elegant, and runs almost as fast as C or Fortran. I decided against it, more or less for the reasons cited in this... more... - Sean Barrett

woooooooooooo! - RepoRat

Congratulations! Well deserved, I think. - Chris M

Today saw an important step forward towards a wikification of scholarly workflows: PLoS Computational Biology published an article that did not only follow the journal’s own author guidelines but also those for writing articles on the English Wikipedia, where a … Continue reading → - Daniel Mietchen

As a child I was very clear I wanted to be a scientist. I am not sure exactly where the idea came from. I part I blame Isaac Azimov but it must have been a combination of things. I can't remember not having a clear idea of wanting to go into research. I started off ... - Cameron Neylon

Are you going to stay in the UK? Or move to a different home base? - OMG 404 Joe

"A chance shake-up of Maryland House of Delegates seating assignments brought Republican Wade Kach face to face with gay couples who had come to make the case for a gay marriage law, and might have proved decisive in its final passage through the state's General Assembly on Thursday. In an effort to get the bill to the House floor, a special joint committee was formed and legislators were left scrambling for seats. Kach, who had previously backed attempts to define marriage as between one man and one woman, found a space right next to the witness table. "I [sat] with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so much love," he said. "When this hearing was over, I was a changed person in regard to this issue. I felt that I understood what same sex couples were looking for."" - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Oh, you mean they're not looking to undermine the very fabric of American society? =p - ronin

When René Magritte once painted a tobacco pipe in the late 1920s, he added the subtitle “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” to it in order to emphasize the difference between physical objects and their representation. The painting is now housed in the Los Angeles … Continue reading → - Daniel Mietchen

Even the figure was made with open source software! - Björn Brembs

Kitware: https://docs.google.com/documen... - Heather Piwowar

Here's mine: http://cameronneylon.net/blog... - Cameron Neylon

I knew there would be a gratuitous and ignorant slap at libraries somewhere in that piece. I was right. PMR may write more concisely than Stevan Harnad, but he's another "You Must Do It MYYYY WAYYYY!" type. - Walt Crawford

Thanks Cameron, I appreciate your input. Hope you do have a good Holidays. - OMG 404 Joe

Is that enough? Journals are hard pressed for reviewers, so some concerted refusing to review for certain kinds of journals may actually be one of the few levers that researchers can use to influence journal policies. - Daniel Mietchen

Wasn't there a call recently for a central repository of such pledges, or One Pledge To Rule Them All? Or am I hallucinating again? - Bill Hooker

My TEDxWaterloo talk from March, now up on the ted.com main site. - Michael Nielsen

Also posted to the TED Facebook page but don't go and read the comments. Too sad. - suelibrarian from iPhone

@sue - I'm not on Facebook, and can't read the comments, perhaps fortunately :-) A nice thing: the TED main site comments are for the most part thoughtful and interesting. - Michael Nielsen

Great video - just stuck it up on YouTube too http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Graham Steel

It's actually a Beethoven quote: http://ff.im/Hoqpd . - Daniel Mietchen

Left a comment: "I agree with you 100%. I don't think it's necessary to pledge to both refuse to referee AND stop submitting to closed-access journals. There's nothing logically inconsistent with stopping reviewing, but continuing to submit. Personally, all of our lab's submissions will be OA, unless I'm a co-author on a paper and that PI wants to shoot for a closed journal. I haven't... more... - Steve Koch

I know I didn't think of it, and here I am in 2007 making a resolution to that effect: http://www.sennoma.net/main.... (I don't even want to think about whether I kept all of those resolutions, but I did keep the one about not reviewing for TA publications.) - Bill Hooker

Thanks Bill, I've added you to the list of people who have pledged here: http://www.openaccesspledge.com/... I made http://www.openaccesspledge.com in hopes of getting mass pledging going but am still working on the wording of the pledge. Michael Taylor and I are hoping to join forces- Michael is arguing for a much stronger pledge, but the several people I've bounced it off of,... more... - Alex Holcombe

You'll need to go to the linked post for full context; briefly, there's a draft letter in support of Steve's tenure case here (http://piratepad.net/DpuxZJT...) that his Open Science peeps can sign. This is not a substitute for the traditional individual letters of support, but an entirely appropriate supplement to same given that Steve is making Open Science a big part of his case. - Bill Hooker

Just saw this thread. Thank you everyone! - Steve Koch

I'm intrigued by the idea that it would be possible to set up some kind of P2P scholarly article archive. Sort of like Napster for journal articles, but without any central authority. More like bitcoin for journal articles, maybe. - Chris M

Mendeley, maybe? - Björn Brembs

Tuesday, I was in a training meeting with some undergrad tutors, and two of them made a huge deal over NOT using Twitter -- as though reactionary obstinance was something to be proud of. But then during a workshop with physics students last week, the coordinator of the REU program told a story about refusing to share a former student's code with her current supervisor...b/c it... more... - Mickey Schafer

Ha! It's nice to know one was useful for something. - Andy Maloney from iPhone

Daily Mail: Like something out of a James Bond movie, the Terrafugia Transition flying car may be hitting US roadways as early as 2012. Cleared last year to fly by the Federal Aviation Administration, the “roadable aircraft” has now been...

"Disruptive action in scholarly publishing [...] hopefully legal" love it! I'm along for the ride! - Björn Brembs

Nice one: "IFs are per journal. This about as meaningful a measure of worth as deciding that a person is well-dressed because they shop at a given store. You can be badly dressed with expensive cloths and vice versa. ". Might just borrow this analogy for a future presentation..... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

gotta love no author fees - Jean-Claude Bradley

Somewhere in the article someone was quoted saying they want a sustainable business model and then said the current system (no fees) was not sustainable. Maybe they can find some way that free publishing is sustainable. - Anthony Salvagno