Category: academic life
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Share recommended readings using Mendeley’s Public Collections
School is back, so we thought it would be a good time to demonstrate how Mendeley can help professors, teachers, and alike to set up a “Recommended reading” list for their incoming students: 1) Create a new collection in Mendeley (left-side pane) Don’t worry about the name you give the collection. If you want to rename…
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Oy vey. Scientific discourse trainwreck.
As an addendum to Jason’s earlier post, here’s a story of scientific discourse gone horribly wrong. It would be funny if it wasn’t so.. somehow really not funny. How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 123 Easy Steps http://d.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=18773744&access_key=key-1md5zdvu8wpysalhsmqg&page=1&version=1&viewMode= Via björn.brembs.blog.
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Journal of FUBAR and Negative Results
Last evening I attended a panel discussion entitled, “Making the Web work for Science” hosted by Science Commons. It was held at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco and moderated by Tim O’Reilly. On the panel were Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia; Stephen Friend, MD, PhD President, CEO and a Co-Founder of Sage; and John…
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If you're near Toronto (and even if you're not), you should attend this event
I just got an invitation from Jen Dodd, whom I met last fall at the Science in the 21st Century Conference at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo (what a great conference that was!). Jen is organizing a fabulous event: Science 2.0: What Every Scientist Needs to Know About How the Web is Changing the Way…
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