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Social Media for Scientists: A lecture 12 Oct 2012 | 05:23 pm
Travis and I recently gave a keynote presentation at our alma mater, Queen’s university, on the utility of social media use among academics, researchers, and graduate students. The 1 hr presentation, ...
Crowdfunding Questions With Petridish.org Co-founder Matt Salzberg 9 Jul 2012 | 10:00 pm
A few weeks ago I was approached by the folks at Petridish.org, asking if I’d be interested in doing a post on their science crowdfunding site. I’m fascinated by crowdfunding and think that it has a ...
Blogging and self-promotion revisited 12 Jun 2012 | 10:00 pm
A few weeks ago there were a number of interesting posts floating around the web discussing the appropriateness of science blogging as a form of self-promotion (see this post by Scicurious for an exce...
Blogging and self-promotion 11 May 2012 | 06:27 am
Our friend Scicurious has an excellent post today on Scientopia discussing blogging as a form of scientific communication. Specifically, she asks whether it is appropriate to blog about your own rese...
Time for a new type of peer review? 1 Feb 2012 | 05:00 am
Over the past year or so I’ve had a number of interesting conversations with people about peer review. It seems as though many people think the current system is broken, although I have yet to hear ma...
What science blog networks do you visit – an update 26 Jan 2012 | 10:15 am
Two weeks ago I posted a survey asking people to rank the 3 science blog networks they visit most frequently. The responses (23 in total) are probably not representative, given that most of the traff...
What science blog networks do you visit most frequently? 11 Jan 2012 | 05:44 pm
It’s no secret that the science blogosphere has undergone massive changes in the past 18 months. There have been new networks (Scientopia, PLoS BLoGs), dramatically expanded/revamped networks (Scient...
Get To Know A Scienceblogger: Jonathan Eisen 29 Jul 2011 | 01:57 am
Jonathan Eisen, PhD Today we have another post in our Get To Know a Scienceblogger series. Jonathan Eisen is a professor at the Genome Center at the University of California (UC), Davis and holds ap...
Post Publication Peer Review: Blogs vs Letters to the Editor 26 Jul 2011 | 02:00 am
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the value of peer review (including this phenomenal post by Joe Pickrell of Genomes Unzipped), and whether other models might be cheaper, faster, and ...
Academic career versus fulfilling personal life: are they mutually exclusive? 14 Jul 2011 | 02:00 am
Travis’ Note: Earlier this year Nature held a Career Columnist Competition looking for Post Docs and PhD Students who were interested in writing about the ups and downs of being a trainee. They recei...
