Science 2.0

I am sure you could make it happen but am not sure how you would get paid to do so. Start perhaps by talking with your local science museum, or a local college or university, who could have you coordinate a community outreach day to start? you'd have to build up some credibility in that role, so starting small is likely to be a good idea. - Heather

This might be useful for inspiration -- and going the entrepreneurial route means you can go part time while building business: http://www.terrificscienceoutreach.com/ - Mickey Schafer

" The QP-SURF program at UT Southwestern is an intensive summer research training experience which leads to an understanding of the planning, discipline, and teamwork involved in the pursuit of basic answers to current questions at the interface of quantitative science and basic biomedical research. Fellows spend ten weeks (beginning June 7, 2010 through August 13, 2010) pursuing individual research projects in the laboratories of UT Southwestern Graduate School faculty members. Fellows gain experience in modern research techniques, and have a chance to plan and execute an experimental strategy to answer a scientific question. The program introduces students to the sorts of projects encountered during postgraduate research training and leads to an understanding of the planning, discipline, and teamwork involved in the pursuit of basic answers to current questions in the biological sciences. At the end of the summer, fellows present their research in a poster session. In addition to... more... - Mickey Schafer

Hi, Mickey--thank you so much. Oh, we definitely include items for undergraduates. I really try to list as many scholarships and academic prizes in the health sciences at all levels as possible. Got to get kids interested in science and medicine! And I have a diversity.underrepresented category, too. Therefore, your suggestion was perfect and much appreciated. I have listed it here--http://www.scangrants.com/grant... - Hope Leman

Some day all science journals will contain scientific knowledge which is as verifiable and as immediately reusable as this. - Dan Hagon from Bookmarklet

Now that is cool... - Cameron Neylon

indeed - Claudia Koltzenburg

No mention of friendfeed, so what about writing a correspondence piece on this? It could be based on http://ff4s-paper.wikidot.com/start and perhaps also put the recent NIH grant for a "Facebook for Scientists" ( http://ff.im/beKk7 ) in perspective by providing an overview over existing tools along these lines and why they are not widely used. - Daniel Mietchen

I would actually prefer the Fb4Sci stuff in there, and the article would be more balanced if we were to name a few more services that offer microblogging (I listed some in the Organization part of the document). FF can then be described in two sentences as a particularly useful example because it provides hierarchies of threaded conversations in which the most current and the most popular entries compete for the top of attention. - Daniel Mietchen

Biomed Central's policy on publishing open science defined: "Articles may be submitted to BioMed Central’s journals when data have been previously discussed or posted in such venues as blogs, wikis, social networking websites or lab electronic online notebooks. However, given the rapidly evolving nature of these resources, where discussion of data or manuscripts posted to these venues has subsequently been incorporated into the manuscript, the BioMed Central journal Editors may make their own assessment as to whether there may be duplication in the submitted manuscript." It's excellent that we are gaining some clarity here. To my mind the idea of open science is precisely to have "discussion of data or manuscripts posted to these venues" being subsequently "incorporated into the manuscript". In these cases the Biomed Central manuscript editor decides. We really need some test cases, and we need explicit policies from other publishers. - Matthew Todd from Bookmarklet

Good example Daniel - if we are looking more broadly than BMC I think most fully OA publications would accept pre-prints. I also suspect hybrids would not - for example AuthorChoice at ACS - but I don't know for sure. - Jean-Claude Bradley

"...Congress [should] add five amendments to existing statutes that would improve the processing of patents, reduce lawsuits and speed up the arrival of innovations on the market." - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

"used as source for Amazon EC2 EBS snapshot: snap-7044d219" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"It is widely known that the brain perceives information before it reaches a person’s awareness. But until now, there was little way to determine what specific mental tasks were taking place prior to the point of conscious awareness." - Bill Romanos from Bookmarklet

"download all files on the biotorrents rss (see http://www.biotorrents.net/links...) - on server using only command line interface **currently using: rssdler - feed url: http://www.biotorrents.net/rssdd... rtorrent - watch directory for .torrents http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki... .torrents are successfully downloaded torrents are loaded by rtorrent rtorrent shows: Tracker: [Failure reason "Invalid info_hash (0 - )"] one work around: add open bittorrent tracker http://openbittorrent.com/ to the torrent re-load inrtorrent connect with a 3rd client that supports biotorrent tracker & open bittorrent tracker rtorrent finds biotorrent tracker or tracker clients, possibly through peer exchange any ideas? **other options: os: debian etch 4.0 and lenny 5.0 bittorrent programs: rtorrent http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki http://packages.debian.org/search... deluge... more... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers." - Mickey Schafer

"The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies. It is a member-based support network promoting critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association is international in scope." - Mickey Schafer

Covers many different disciplines but weighted more toward humantieis/social sciences - Mickey Schafer

got this from Holly! "NEW YORK - A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation. Online activities such as e-mail, blogging and frequenting Internet hangouts can even lead to larger, more diverse social networks, according to the study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The study refutes research earlier in the decade suggesting that people's growing embrace of technology has come at the expense of close human connections." - Mickey Schafer

"Pity Ola Bratteli who, when checking out how cited he is, has to take into account the “common misspellings Bratelli, Brattelli and the less common Brateli and Blatteli” of his last name. For someone who has given his name to the rather important Bratteli diagram, this is unfortunate." - Dan Hagon from Bookmarklet

convenient way to query some NCBI services, allowing some server-side processing with results available in XML or JSON - Mike Chelen

Personally, am not convinced of some of the assumptions, e.g. "...Both are unfortunate, but are parts of the current culture [reference to sharing early lab results]. Any network that hopes to succeed must adapt to the culture of the community, rather than trying to rewrite it." First, though likely rare, I think there are instances where culture gets "re-written" -- another perspective is that this form of communication provides an alternative to established routes. That is, does not replace them but adds to the diversity of communication means. - Mickey Schafer

Jenny: it might be better to gauge usage based either on features such as address book management or by traffic metrics such as size of audience - Mike Chelen

omg, it seems almost all of the earth has been destroyed, leaving only a crescent sliver remaining!!1! - Mike Chelen

"Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch, which broke the news on Monday, reported that Google spent $30 million on the company." - Mickey Schafer

glad to hear, since my customer satisfaction with google is generally way above that with my phone carrier ;) - Mike Chelen

Tim Gowers has some very interesting ideas for an open science project to come up with a simple theoretical model where self-replication organisms are likely to spontaneously arise. In this post he tries to formulate a question or questions such a project could feasibly attack, and discusses what would count as a success. - Michael Nielsen

I can't do justice to this post here in this short space - the whole post and the discussion thread that follows are both full of interesting ideas - but I think it'd be very interesting to get input from other people. The spirit of the proposed project has something of the flavour of the Urey-Miller experiment - Michael Nielsen

"So what are we proposing? We will phase out project and programme grants and instead, extend the model of fellowship support to researchers who are salaried by their university or research institute. " - Daniel Mietchen

It's interesting how explicit that is in the China case. The spending of money to speed development as well as to bring people back to support this. Building a new campus expected to house 20,000 scientists in a five year timeframe just doesn't seem to bother them. At the same time the heirachical and top down nature of the society and organization of their science doesn't seem to support radical developments. Will be very interesting to watch though. - Cameron Neylon

Given the UI flexibility of the iPhone, why recreate older, less intuitive HP calculator interfaces? - Steve Levin

Older?...yes. Less intuitive? You've obviously never used the HP-12c. It has the best interface around for time value of money (TVM) calculations. Also, if you can't wrap your head around RPN logic, you could always turn that feature off. Best of all, with an app like this I can leave my HP-12c at home. - Edwin Webster

I am inclined to submit a proposal for a session on Open Science. If any of you plan to go there or wish to contribute to the session, let me know. - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

Still, if any of you would like to join the session remotely (or perhaps even physically), please let us know. - Daniel Mietchen

"We describe the system architecture and template design of "Scratchpads", a data-publishing framework for groups of people to create their own social networks supporting natural history science. Scratchpads cater to the particular needs of individual research communities through a common database and system architecture. This is flexible and scalable enough to support multiple networks, each with its own choice of features, visual design, and constituent data. Our data model supports web services on standardised data elements that might be used by related initiatives such as GBIF and the Encyclopedia of Life. A Scratchpad allows users to organise data around user-defined or imported ontologies, including biological classifications. Automated semantic annotation and indexing is applied to all content, allowing users to navigate intuitively and curate diverse biological data, including content drawn from third party resources. A system of archiving citable pages allows stable referencing with unique identifiers and provides credit to contributors through normal citation processes." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

modules mentioned: leftandright http://drupal.org/project... biblio http://drupal.org/project... cck http://drupal.org/project/cck og http://drupal.org/project/og image http://drupal.org/project... imagex http://drupal.org/project... creativecommons_lite http://drupal.org/project... simplenews http://drupal.org/project... wysiwyg... more... - Mike Chelen

pretty slick - Jean-Claude Bradley

"Links any Document Object Identifiers for resolution with http://dx.doi.org" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

One special case worth looking for is "COiNS" OpenURL. Our (jQuery) code is var z = jQuery(".Z3988:eq(0)"); if (z.length) { var r = z.attr("title").split("&"); for (var i=0; i<r.length; i++) { var x = decodeURIComponent(r[i]); if (/^rft_id=info:doi\/.*?(10\.\d\d\d\d\/.*)/.exec(x)) { var doi = RegExp.$1; doSomething(doi); return; } } } - Fergus Gallagher