How to set up a science blog. Science blogs let you share your passion and expertise with the widest possible audience. Damian Carrington shows it's easy to get started. The World Wide Web has changed the world by providing the cheapest information sharing network ever seen. And the development of blogging software, now powerful and free to use, allows anyone to share their thoughts instantly with anyone else in the world with an Internet connection. That personal link is at the heart of blogging. The very word blog comes from web log, in other words a diary. Just as diaries can have many forms, so can blogs, but they tend to differ from conventional media in their focus. Arianna Huffington, founder of the highly successful blog network Huffington Post, uses a medical analogy. What to blog on — and how? You might be a scientist who wants to blog about your own science or issues facing scientists. First, choose a subject that you are both passionate and knowledgeable about.
So how personal should a blog get? How often? Prochain arrêt, la Singularité (1/4) : Des courbes qui tendent vers l’infini | InternetActu.net. Par Rémi Sussan le 02/09/08 | 19 commentaires | 19,393 lectures | Impression Les révolutions dans les mentalités se repèrent parfois par des signes discrets. Ainsi, une idée, un concept défendu dans des milieux marginaux ou très spécialisés, se retrouve brusquement sous les feux de la rampe, reconnu par les grands médias et traité sérieusement par ceux-ci.
Peu de temps après, les milieux intellectuels commencent à l’analyser sérieusement, puis les hommes d’affaires et finalement les politiques s’en emparent. L’idée, jadis jugée comme folle ou sans intérêt, a gagné en respectabilité. C’est ce qui semble arriver aujourd’hui à la notion de “Singularité”. La Singularité : une rupture vers un nouveau monde La Singularité vient récemment de faire la Une d’un numéro spécial de la célèbre IEEE Spectrum et, par rebond, du New Scientist.
Qu’est-ce que la Singularité ? La Singularité n’est donc pas synonyme du “progrès”, aussi fulgurant soit-il. Jones reste cependant un optimiste. Microsoft and Science Commons Team Up To Add Semantic Content to Online Science - O'Reilly Broadcast. John Wilbanks, VP of Science for Creative Commons, gave O'Reilly Media an exclusive sneak preview of a joint announcement that they will be making with Microsoft later today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.
According to John, who talked to us shortly after getting off a plane from Brazil, Microsoft will be releasing, under an open source license, Word plugins that will allow scientists to mark up their papers with scientific entities directly. "The scientific culture is not one, traditionally, where you have hyperlinks," Wilbanks told us. "You have citations. And you don't want to do cross-references of hyperlinks between papers, you want to do links directly to the gene sequences in the database. " Wilbanks says that Science Commons has been working for several years to build up a library of these scientific entities. "This makes it easy to add scientifically accurate, persistent hyperlinks to articles. The work on Microsoft's part was done by Microsoft Research. The Promise of Authority in Social Scholarship. Sreelatha Menon: Researchers sans borders. A global net-based project for finding a new TB drug sets the pace for research into poor man's diseases that don't attract big money.
Call it Science 2.0 or merely science without borders. What the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the government of India has devised to tackle lack of adequate research into drugs for key diseases amounts to just that. Drugs and diseases are split into haves and have-nots when it comes to attracting funds for research. So, while 399 drugs for treating cancer are under development and a total of 136 drugs are being developed for cardio-vascular conditions, only six drugs have been developed for tuberculosis (TB), which affects a third of the global population. So, the DST’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is resorting to open source drug research for TB through its Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Project.
The Rs 150-crore OSDD project has so far registered 700 participants from 130 cities. Science 2.0. James Boyle on keeping public science open to the public. Internet emerges as social research tool. Public release date: 14-Feb-2009 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Mark Fellowsmark.fellows@ur.msu.edu 517-819-5437Michigan State University CHICAGO — For the past two decades, the Internet has been used by many as an easy-to-use tool that enables the spread of information globally.
Increasingly, the Web is moving beyond its use as an electronic "Yellow Pages" and online messaging platform to a virtual world where social interaction and communities can inform social science and its applications in the real world. "Although social scientists, engineers and physical scientists have studied the World Wide Web as an entity in and of itself for some time, there is now a growing group of social scientists who are learning how to use the World Wide Web as a tool for research rather than as a subject of research," said Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University researcher and director of the university's Environmental Science and Policy Program.
Dietz said. -- by Val Osowski. Free The Facts: Critical Issue, Killer Presentation - O'Reilly Radar. Science 2.0: New online tools may revolutionize research. More researchers are tagging data, much as users of websites like Flickr tag images, in a bid to manage and share information. ((Yahoo Inc. /Associated Press)) Described as an extension of the internet under the ocean, the Venus Coastal Observatory off Canada's west coast provides oceanographers with a continuous stream of undersea data once accessible only through costly marine expeditions.
When its sister facility Neptune Canada launches next summer, the observatories' eight nodes will provide ocean scientists with an unprecedented wealth of information. Sifting through all that data, however, can be quite a task. 'We're changing by orders of magnitude the sampling ability we have for the oceans.' And they're not alone. Michael Nielsen, a Waterloo, Ont., physicist who is working on a book on the future of science, says online tools could change science to an extent that hasn't happened since the late 17th century, when scientists started publishing their research in scientific journals. Social networking with a brain: a critical review of academic sites | In the Library with the Lead Pipe. Social networking may have started out as a way for students to keep track of their friends, but it has expanded in just about every direction. These days, you can find at least one related social networking site on just about any general topic, including music, photography, television, books, shopping, and bookmarking.
But it isn’t all fun games. Job sites like Monster and LinkedIn began the evolution from social networking to professional networking, and academia has joined the fray as a number of networking sites specifically for academics have popped up in recent years. Now we can add “research” to the list above. The impetus for this blog post was an email that has been making the rounds, originating from Dr. I recently finished my Ph.D on the philosophy of perception from Oxford. The message concludes with the names of a few notables who have joined (or been added) to the site, and a request to assist Dr. A screen shot of Academia.edu's homepage. The Good The Bad The Ugly. La science des blogs. Antoine Blanchard exerce une profession encore confidentielle : blogueur de sciences.
Ce jeune ingénieur agronome continue à gagner sa vie en fouillant le web et les bases de données pour ses clients désireux de déposer des brevets. Mais il consacre l'essentiel de son énergie à la blogosphère, dans laquelle il oeuvre sous le pseudonyme d'Enro, emprunté, à l'époque du lycée, à un personnage de roman de science-fiction. Fondateur du Café des sciences, un portail regroupant une quinzaine de blogs spécialisés, il organise ce soir, jeudi 27 novembre, à Paris, une soirée publique (1) baptisée "Science 2.0", par analogie avec Web 2.0. L'expression désigne en effet la faculté des internautes à intervenir sur les pages web et interagir entre eux.
Comment l'Internet d'aujourd'hui modifie la manière dont travaillent les chercheurs ? Pour le fondateur du Café des sciences, l'Internet moderne a d'ores et déjà accéléré le rythme auquel les chercheurs publient leurs travaux. ProspecTic 10/12 : Y’a-t-il une convergence des sciences ? | InternetActu.net. A l’occasion de la parution de “ProspecTic, nouvelles technologies, nouvelles pensées ?” Par Jean-Michel Cornu, directeur scientifique de la Fing – un ouvrage pédagogique et de synthèse sur les défis des prochaines révolutions scientifiques (Amazon, Fnac, Place des libraires) -, il nous a semblé intéressant de revenir sur les enjeux que vont nous poser demain nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information et cognition.
Maintenant que nous avons posé l’avenir des prochaines révolutions technologiques, observons les clefs pour comprendre et les défis qu’elles nous adressent. Y a-t-il une convergence des sciences ? L’idée d’une convergence entre les nanotechnologies, les biotechnologies, les technologies de l’information et les sciences cognitives (NBIC) a été introduite, en 2002, au travers d’un rapport de la National Science Foundation (NSF) américaine intitulé Les technologies convergentes pour l’amélioration des performances humaines (.pdf).
Des technologies convergentes… vers quoi ? De la Science 2.0 à la Science 3.0 - Sylvie Brémond. 0810.0486v1.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Intute: Social Sciences Blog » Blog Archive » The State of the UK Academic Blogosphere. This is the third in a series of blog posts this week taking a closer look at blogging, asking why you may want to blog (part one and part two), picking out some of what is happening in the UK blogosphere and looking at how blogging can interact with other arenas, such as the academic publishing process, institutions and the mainstream media. A couple of weeks ago I took a brief look at the State of the Blogosphere in light of the recent report from Technorati – while it appears that the blogging is in good health overall, can the same be said of academic blogging especially in the UK as opposed to the US?
It’s safe to say that there are fewer blogging UK academics than US academics – after all there are 300 million people in the US and only about 60 million here in the UK. But in the past when I have asked Where are the UK academic bloggers – people have always asked for good examples of current practise, so I thought I should try to track some down. MonCarnet2.0. Conference Programme from Science Blogging 2008: London forum on Nature Network. Saturday 30 August at the Royal Institution Please find below the official programme. We will update this first post if any changes are introduced, so this information will always be up to date. 8:30 – 9:45 Coffee/Breakfast; Proposal of unconference sessions 9:45 – 10:00 Opening remarks Naomi Temple, Royal Institution; Matt Brown/Corie Lok, Nature Network 10:00 – 10:30 Keynote: Ben Goldacre (title to be confirmed) 10:30 – 11:30 Panel: The scientific life, exposed. Mistrust of scientists is common, and misinterpretation of scientific results rampant. 11:30 – 11:45 Short break; Voting on unconference sessions 11:45 – 12:30 Morning breakout sessions.
Breakout 1: There’s a giraffe on my unicycle: Can blogging unlock your creativity? Breakout 2: How to make friendfeeds and influence people Matt Wood An introduction to microblogging and aggregation services (such as Friendfeed, Twitter, Tumblr etc), before opening things up to a discussion on their use in science, open notebooks, etc. Science Blogging 2008: London on Nature Network.
A Blog Around The Clock : Web 2.0, Science 2.0, OA, etc. Deep Sea News : Mozambique's ocean ambassadors. If you have been following the story of Andrea Marshall and the manta rays off Mozambique you may notice she responded to questions in the comments section yesterday to tell us she’s working with elasmobranch expert Leonard Compagno to sort through “10 generic and 25 species synonyms, mostly without type specimens” in order to figure out whether she has a new species (or two).
Ocean Revolution co-director Tim Dykstra contacted Deep Sea News, too, thanking us for highlighting the outreach and communication model the Whale Shark and Manta Research Centre has embarked upon. I called the science communication model “Science 2.0″, but barely touched upon the most important aspect of their program, community outreach. Here’s a few pictures of what community engagement looks like in Mozambique.
Most of these people are seeing whale sharks and manta rays alive for the first time. They are learning about sustainable ecotourism as an economic alternative to commercial fishing (for manta rays). Labmeeting Company Profile. Labmeeting: A Social Network For Scientists. Scientists are not the most social people on the planet. Many of them would rather be holed up in their labs trying to make the next big discovery than hanging out on Facebook throwing virtual pies at each other (although there are exceptions). But what if they could organize their all their scientific papers online and share them easily with other members of their lab?
Mark Kaganovich figures that will get them online. After graduating from Harvard with undergraduate degrees in biochemistry and computer science two years ago, he set out to create Labmeeting. In May, 2008 he closed a $500,000 seed round from Peter Thiel, Kinsey Hills, and other angel investors. And since last week, Labmeeting has been open to anyone with a college e-mail account. Typically, scientists have stacks of papers, protocols, and notes in their offices that they pass around as PDFs. Says Kaganovich: Labmeeting is free for individual scientists and students. An Idea Whose Time Has Come: <strong>Science in the 21st Century: Science, Society, and Information Technology</strong> Manifest V0.2. Manifest V0.2 I am a hard bloggin’ scientist. 1. I create amazing stuff in my mind. Dein Beitrag auf HardBloggingScientists! Zur Zeit nehmen wir keine Gastbeiträge an. Use the hard bloggin’ scientist sticker on your website!!
Be part of it! Use this code to add the sticker on your website: I am a hard bloggin’ scientist. This means in particular: 1. Visit our shop to buy this wonderful t-shirts. Article 2.0 Contest. Forensic Science 2.0: Contribute, Share, Collaborate. ASIS. Science and Technology Social Networking Services.: <strong>ResearchGATE Scientific Network</strong> Science 2.0. Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page. La science 2.0 après le chercheur 1.0 ! | Mediapart. An Idea Whose Time Has Come: <strong>(More) Open Metrics: Emerging Impact Measures</strong> Numbers Game Hots Up Citation metrics have become key numbers for journals, institutions and even individuals, and a host of different models are emerging/ Tracey Caldwell / Information World Review / February 4 2008 / The beguiling simplicity of the “impact factor” has made it a figure of supreme importance in research.
Impact Factor Journal impact factors, or IFs, measure how often science and social science journals are cited by academics. The measurement of the number of times a journal is cited by researchers in the field has become shorthand for the value of that journal; and funding bodies and employers use citation metrics to assess the productivity of institutions, departments and individuals. Thomson Scientific dominates the citation metrics landscape with its Web of Science-based citation index. Web of Science[ Scopus Google Scholar [snip] G Index[ Retrovirology [snip] [snip] Selection-Neutral[snip] Entrez ici le titre de votre page. La fête de la science «2.0» sur Science.gouv.fr.
Scientific Commons | A Community for Scientific Information. Main Page. Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 / Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0. Computer scientist talks up "Science 2.0" Science 2.0 « O’Really? at Duncan.Hull.name. Ian Foster: Science 2.0. Science 2.0/Brainstorming. Michael Nielsen » The Future of Science. Nauka_2.0.pdf (Objet application/pdf)