Author Archives: pm286

caltech: (talk on) the power of the scientific e-thesis

Posted on August 7, 2007 by pm286

Many thanks to Eric Van de Velde and colleagues for inviting me to Caltech to give a talk on the scientific e-thesis. Besides being excited about going to Caltech, I am delighted that they wished to record the presentation. (I … Continue reading →

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scifoo: data-driven science and storage

Posted on August 7, 2007 by pm286

I managed to get out to a few sessions at scifoo not concerned with my immediate concerns, of which two were on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and Google’s abiility and willingness to manage scientific data. They come together because … Continue reading →

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scifoo: Open Science

Posted on August 7, 2007 by pm286

One of the themes at scifoo was “Open Science” or “Open Notebook Science” – the latter term coined by Jean-Claude Bradley. The idea that science is publicly recorded as it is done. The very first bottom-up session (i.e. Saturday morning) … Continue reading →

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scifoo: young scientists and the culture of fear

Posted on August 7, 2007 by pm286

On the last day, and as an inspiration from the previous sessions and the community atmosphere of the meeting, Andrew Walkingshaw and Alex Palazzo ran a session on the problems of being a postdoc under the pressure of having to … Continue reading →

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scifoo: blogsession

Posted on August 7, 2007 by pm286

As I’ve mentioned at scifoo the programme was evolved by the participants in a first-come first-accepted process whereby we signed up for free slots. It was hardly surprising that the blogosphere gained a slot and on Sunday we found a … Continue reading →

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scifoo: immediate impressions

Posted on August 6, 2007 by pm286

Like many other bloggers I’m contributing my impressions. (technorati aggregates all blogs which contain the tag – or even the word – “scifoo”). There will be so much to read that I don’t need to add detail. The format is … Continue reading →

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scifoo: Testing on the Toilet and other events

Posted on August 5, 2007 by pm286

Among the informalities (or formalities) in Google is a series of pamphlets in the loo. As you are spending your time there – standing or sitting – you see “Testing on the Toilet”. A series of daily inspirational aids for … Continue reading →

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Update from Scifoo

Posted on August 5, 2007 by pm286

I’m sitting in the Google tent after a very full day – more to come – talking with Foocampers about how blogs work. More later

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International harvesting of OA ETD repositories

Posted on August 4, 2007 by pm286

From Peter Suber’s blog: International harvesting of OA ETD repositories Leading the way with a European e-Theses demonstrator project, a press release from the Dutch SURF Foundation, July 31, 2007. Excerpt: The organisations JISC (UK), the National Library of Sweden … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the chemical blogosphere

Posted on August 3, 2007 by pm286

I’ve a few minutes to kill before the shuttle to Scifoo… I believe the chemical blogosphere is among the leaders in domain-specific blogging and I’ll be bouncing this idea off the SciFooCampers (where the blogosphere is seen by many as … Continue reading →

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