Starting a reading list for Gobbledygook
All science bloggers do a lot of reading for background information, or write blog posts based on a (newly published)...
Martin Fenner
Peer Review at the Scholarly Kitchen
The Scholarly Kitchen is a group blog started by the Society for Scholarly Publishing in 2008. The blog posts by authors Kent Anderson, Phil Davis, David Crotty, Michael Clarke, etc. are an always interesting – and often...
Data is the new soil
One of the main themes at the Science Online London Conference last weekend was data, with several sessions devoted to publishing primary research data, connecting scientific data from various resources, and a scientific experiment taking place...
Lanyrd: a new Twitter mashup for conferences
Lanyrd is a new social directory for conferences launched just a few days ago. It integrates with Twitter to allow you to list conferences you are organizing, speaking at, attending, or just following. It is a...
Peer review is not a piece of cake
On Monday Jenny Rohn published a blog post Peer review is no picnic that concludes: So the next time you hear someone asserting that scientists aren’t critical, of their own work or that of their...
BioMed Central drafts position statement on open data
Last week BioMed Central published a draft position statement on open data (PDF). Iain Hrynaszkiewicz explained the statement on the BioMed Central Blog, including the five Ws of open data: 1. Why make data more open?...