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Nic Weber

Nic Weber

Information Science 1st year PhD student @ UIUC.
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RT @gilgul: Just landed in what feels like the edge of the world. Hello Urbana-Champagne!
RT @lsmarr: Solid read on the negative impact of the sequester on American university research http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-b...
RT @lorenterveen: Read the new article by @jgrudin on publication culture and models: http://www.tandfonline.com/action... It covers 'publish the ranking' #cscw #cscw2013
RT @BoraZ: No, It’s Not the Sugar – Bittman and MotherJones have overinterpreted another study http://scienceblogs.com/deniali...
"Oxfam Ranks Food Giants on Sourcing and Environmental Policies" http://e360.yale.edu/digest...
H.Becker- how to know when research is finished, "we are never through, but occasionally stop to tell our colleagues what we have learned."
RT @evgenymorozov: Edison on MOOCs in 1922: "motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system...in a few years it will supplant...textbooks"
Med student retracts paper when former boss claims right to data http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013...
you're basically saying "Isn't this weird?" and it might be, it might even be interesting but that's not really a research result.
So tired of studies that say "older people (X) younger people not(X) " If you don't have an explanation as to why that is the case +
RT @jfasullo: Are climate contrarians flirting with conspiracy theory? No "it’s the morning after and they’re sitting up in bed...' http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013...
If you've ever done agile software dev, and long for the burndown chart in your personal life --> tutorial for gDocs: http://joel.inpointform.net/softwar...
...recruit enough readers nor reflect our actual modes of knowledge product" GB (I might just tweet the whole blog post)
"In a world where the preprint can be the true archival literature (archiv-X), we have a broken system that can neither ...
Reminds me of his review of Nardi and Oday - http://link.springer.com/article...
"Today, the average academic article is cited by none and read by two. And yet we persist in the venture." GB
This opening paragraph is Geof Bowker at his finest: http://evoke.ics.uci.edu/truth-a...
Wow RT @NASA_GoddardPix: THEMIS - Mystery of the northern lights solved: http://www.flickr.com/photos... #novapbs #nasa
Just realized I printed wrong title on my poster - has exact opposite meaning - macro vs. micro; like competent vs. incompetent #ImTheLatter
MT @isaach: neat: "Colors for data scientists. Generate palettes of optimally distinct colors" http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthu...
RT @lenagroeger: Incentive to read Moby Dick. http://www.powermobydick.com/
RT @algore: Rep Henry Waxman & Sheldon Whitehouse take action: http://blog.algore.com/2013...
RT @jathansadowski: "Forbidden" is a nice touch RT @katecrawford: #MBV win the award for Best Long Troll 2013. Wait 22 years, then deliver... a broken web site!
RT @prodnose: Gotta tell ya, Chelsea are so weak right now - match day ball boys are having to kick THEMSELVES in the gut! *introduces next act*
RT @WFMU: The Arrest of Thelonious Monk for Heroin: Illustrated Version by John Wilcock, Ethan Persoff, Scott Marshall: http://boingboing.net/2013...
If you like Climate Science, this is a fascinating transcript from Paul Edwards interviewing Warren Washington http://www.aip.org/history...
RT @dawnstover: Beetle-killed forests may actually be LESS likely to go up in flames. #Climate, not bark beetles, is causing wildfires. http://seattletimes.com/html...
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