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I also must have lost weight...this didn't fit at the end of my Los Angeles days. Imagine that. Moving to New Orleans AND losing weight. - Derrick

I love it! My daughter is a tattoo artist. I am working on a new website for her ... - Patricia F. Anderson

"On newsstands, December's cover of Wired magazine is a little hard to miss. Accompanying a piece on tissue engineering is a shot of a woman's cleavage. Slapped with the cover line, “100% Natural,” it's a visual (sexual) assault. In a struggling publishing industry, highly sexualized images of women have become so common that we've become suspect to otherwise respectable images. But thankfully, we're hardly subjected to those pesky decent images of women in American media… Two days ago, Cindy Royal scolded Wired in a blog post that's been cheered around the Web many times over. An assistant professor at Texas State University, Royal rebuked the magazine for its depiction of women as faceless, person-less beings. “A pair of breasts, no head, no rest of body… just boobs,” she wrote. “Sure it accompanied a story on tissue re-engineering, so what other possible way might you visually represent that, but with a pair of breasts? No other possible way?”" - Derrick from Bookmarklet

The whole discussion quite rightly focuses on the point of the impact on recruiting diverse views and abilities into the profession. Basically, act like a chauvinist, and no one new will want to play with you. - Patricia F. Anderson

pretty cool... - Andrew Su

http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi - Christina Pikas

Do they mean THIS Paul David -- http://www.bepress.com/cas...? Way cool. - Bill Hooker

abstract: Increased public and private investments in large-scale team science initiatives over the past two decades have underscored the need to better understand how contextual factors influence the effectiveness of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration. Toward that goal, the findings from four distinct areas of research on team performance and collaboration are reviewed: (1) social psychological and management research on the effectiveness of teams in organizational and institutional settings; (2) studies of cyber-infrastructures (i.e., computer-based infrastructures) designed to support transdisciplinary collaboration across remote research sites; (3) investigations of community-based coalitions for health promotion; and (4) studies focusing directly on the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of scientific collaboration within transdisciplinary research centers and training programs. The empirical literature within these four domains reveals several contextual circumstances... more... - Mickey Schafer

I've written a post as an introduction to my open lab notebook, explaining how I view it and how it's organized and integrated with my github, flickr, and mendeley accounts. Still figuring things out, but think I've learned a lot about notebook workflow over the past 6 months. Feedback welcome! - Carl Boettiger from Bookmarklet

Awesome explanation of what you are doing with ONS! - Jean-Claude Bradley

Do you mean ONS claims page? http://onsclaims.wikispaces.com/ - Pawel Szczesny

sweet, just what I was looking for. Think modifying the color a bit to match my site break the consistency? - Carl Boettiger

Carl - sure feel free to modify and add your logos to the pool of images on the ONSclaims wiki. The key thing is that if someone clicks on the image on your site it takes you to the wiki for the full description. - Jean-Claude Bradley

Wait, they don't have books? - Tinfoil 2.0

I work in a public library and our big push right now is appealing to "young professionals" - those folks between school research and bringing their kids for story time. It's one reason why we are so heavily involved in social networking. Well, that and the fact that I work there and I'm heavily involved in social networks... - WebGoddess

Invention is a subset of innovation though. :) - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I would never use a dictionary as the ultimate arbiter of meaning--I think that ultimately meaning is determined by usage. But it still provides a useful starting point. And I do think "innovate", "innovation", and "innovative" are generally used in similar senses, although, yeah, there are verb forms, noun forms, and adjectival forms of other words that are wildly disparate in meaning.... more... - Victor Ganata

David Crotty, over at Scholarly Kitchen as an interesting piece on metrics, arguing that many of these have not been thought through because they don’t provide concrete motivation to researchers to care about them. Really he’s focused mainly on exchange mechanisms, means of persuading people that doing high quality review is worth their while by giving them something in exchange, but the argument extends to all sorts of metrics. Why would you care about any given measure if achieving on it doesn’t translate into more resources, time, or glory? You might expect me to disagree with a lot of this but for the most part I don’t. - Cameron Neylon

Proving that our proposed system can work at the same efficiency (its effectiveness is probably easier to reason for) is going to be a major issue, indeed. And you’re right about there being a chicken and egg problem: without users, peer reviewing for visibility doesn’t really take off. It’s going to be difficult to (initially) get enough scholars, who are qualified to peer review, for... more... - Wobbler

has anything happened since this article in September? - Jennifer Melinn

I hope that there is more to report at the next ORCID Participant meeting November 18 in London. - Martin Fenner

Posted via email from Derrick - Derrick from Posterous

Thank you Derrick. So much. <3 - Penny

aww - holly #ravingfangirl

aaron: http://ff.im/smiCz - holly #ravingfangirl

community - John: Thread Killer

Books and community. I use the local public library frequently (the source of most of the books I read), and every time I go in it's bustling, and I'm 99.999% certain very few of those users are librarians. Oh, and their frequent programs are regularly highlighted in the local weekly paper and well-attended. (Lots of other media, too; I just happen to borrow books primarily.) - Walt Crawford

+++++Derrick - Scoble, Alex Scoble

+1 - amygeek

I *was* like that when I was younger. As I've got older there's no peer pressure, and these days I *do* listen to whatever I like as loud as I like - almost anyway. - Ian May

Such great words. If only people could believe it in their souls ... - Martha from BuddyFeed

Is this one of those "better to ask forgiveness than permission" type deals? - Chris Miller

If you're at a HE/FE insitute in the UK then OSS Watch http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ is a JISC funded advisory service on OSS issues. - Daniel Swan

pitfall 1: authors would have to write statement at time of submission. Most won't have tried yet to deposit their data anywhere. So they may write something inconsidered that won't actually be true come publication time. Indeed, many will say the data will be available but then they won't follow through. - Alex Holcombe

Agree that email is a bad mechanism in general terms and tends to lead to low compliance, but the point is that authors _can_ satisfy the current policy by just replying to an email. On the other hand, if they say, 'available by email' then arguably the editor could request it by email and stick it in a comment... - Cameron Neylon

The Adventures of Zotero: Easy Citation Management for the Valiant and True - maʀtha

I have an nstruction T/Fquestion for students asking them if Zotero is named after a sorcerer in a Disney movie. I think there's a title idea in there somewhere. - Elizabeth Brown

Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor that enables you to create, store, share, and collaborate on documents with your science and math students. You can even import any existing document from Word and Simple Text. You can work from anywhere and with any computer platform to access your documents. Considering the versatility of Google Docs, there are many ingenious ways teachers use this free online program with students. - David Wetzel from Bookmarklet

My talk is taking shape at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki... - comments welcome. - Daniel Mietchen

The videos are available now: http://river-valley.tv/confere... - Daniel Mietchen

This photo is the most common I have seen on the web when microbiology is concerned. It has been used with a press release on one of my papers as well (http://healthnews.uc.edu/news...). The funny thing is I think this just shows a bunch of contaminants in a particular environment. It's a lousy culture - Ramy Karam Aziz

Ha, you're right! I just Googled "scientist" and these are the first images: http://twitpic.com/2shugj - Cesar Sanchez

"The case of the BRCA genes, which act as a tumour suppressor, illustrates how close we are to the edge. Mutations of the BRCA genes are linked to breast cancer and ovarian cancer, and tests can be carried out to identify mutations. The company Myriad Genetics held two patents for the diagnosis of mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and carries out the genetic screening test, which is very costly. The patent prevented any other laboratory from doing the test for a lesser cost. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer are unconstitutional and invalid. On 29 March 2010 a New York federal court ruled that the patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are invalid (BMJ 2010;340:c1870, doi:10.1136/bmj.c1870)." - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

"Personal View: Why are we copyrighting science? " Indeed, and moreover, why oh why did the Authors stick this behind a ****ing paywall ?? - Graham Steel

Takes a look at a challenge I regularly hand out to undergrads whose blithe acceptance of the RCT borders on faith-based indoctrination, particularly in cases where we DO know something about the biological course of a disease. - Mickey Schafer

"And doctors say that for them, the new wave of cancer drugs is intensifying the conflict between their responsibility to their patients and their commitment to gathering scientific knowledge for generations of the critically ill." - Mickey Schafer

"Some melanoma specialists familiar with the drug would have traded the data for faster access to the drug. “I know all that I need to know based on the results we already have,” said Dr. Keith Flaherty of Massachusetts General Hospital, who led the early clinical testing. “My use of this drug is not going to be informed by testing it against a drug we all hate and would rather never give a dose of again in our lives.” " - Mickey Schafer

New (to me) blog with open foo focus. - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

It is such a thrill for me to meet people face-to-face who I know only online. I am like Bill and Jean-Claude this way. A meetup would be wonderful, but (knowing me) I probably couldn't come! - Patricia F. Anderson

We don't yet know how to use genomics for drug development. - Ruchira S. Datta

Well, it's logical to assume that the sage guys want to expand to the Bay Area too :) - Attila Csordas

this is a big issue because it can be time-consuming. I try to put much of what they need to know on the lab wiki (http://openwetware.org/wiki...). Want to move away from reliance on oral transmission of knowledge (which should have gone out of style 2000 yrs ago). Also the wiki potentially benefits others around the world. - Alex Holcombe

Thanks so much, everyone! I'm in the position of training new faculty and my supervisor is encouraging me to use the CMS to produce course templates. It also has wiki function that I was planning to use, too. - Mickey Schafer