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DNA, Diversity and You at Cambridge Science Festival
As part of Cambridge Science festival last weekend, I joined a group of about 40 volunteers from The Sanger and EBI at an event “DNA, diversity and you”. This was a series of education and outreach...
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Daniel Cohen on The Social Life of Digital Libraries
Daniel Cohen is giving a talk in Cambridge today on The Social Life of Digital Libraries, abstract below: The digitization of libraries had a clear initial goal: to permit anyone to read the contents...
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Impact Factor Boxing 2010
[This post is part of an ongoing series about impact factors. See this post for the latest impact factors published in 2012.] Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen, Impact Factor Boxing is here again....
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Twenty million papers in PubMed: a triumph or a tragedy?
A quick search on pubmed.gov today reveals that the freely available American database of biomedical literature has just passed the 20 million citations mark*. Should we celebrate or commiserate...
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How many unique papers are there in Mendeley?
Mendeley is a handy piece of desktop and web software for managing and sharing research papers [1]. This popular tool has been getting a lot of attention lately, and with some impressive statistics...
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Planet Facebook
Whatever your views on Facebook [1], you can’t deny that from space, “Planet Facebook” looks rather intriguing. The wonderful diagram below of Facebook connections has been made by Paul Butler. Even...
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The Open Access Irony Awards: Naming and shaming them
Open Access (OA) publishing aims to make the results of scientific research available to the widest possible audience. Scientific papers that are published in Open Access journals are freely available...
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Open Data Manchester: Twenty Four Hour Data People
Sean Ryder, the original twenty-four hour Manchester party person of the Happy Mondays, spins the discs at the Wickerman festival in 2008. Creative commons licensed image via Tangerine Dream on...
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Where did all the BBC programme metadata go? The Infax catalogue online
bbc.co.uk/programmes as a QR Code by /Sizemore/ Mike Atherton on Flickr available under a creative commons licence Over at @BBCSport and @BBC2012 there are some Olympian feats of big data wrestling...
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The Serene Scientists Serenity Prayer via Jon Butterworth
The Church of Banksy Whatever your religous preferences, the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr captures a certain wisdom about life in general. So it is good to see that physicist Jon Butterworth at...
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Punning with the Pub in PubMed: Are there any decent NCBI puns left? #PubMedPuns
PubMedication: do you get your best ideas in the Pub? CC-BY-ND image via trombone65 on Flickr. Many people claim they get all their best ideas in the pub, but for lots of scientists their best ideas...
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