Open Source Biology. Project Noah. The real process of science. The process of science, as represented here, is the opposite of "cookbook" (to see the full complexity of the process, roll your mouse over each element).
In contrast to the linear steps of the simplified scientific method, this process is non-linear: The process of science is iterative.Science circles back on itself so that useful ideas are built upon and used to learn even more about the natural world. This often means that successive investigations of a topic lead back to the same question, but at deeper and deeper levels. Crowdsourcing. Solve for X: Adrien Treuille on collaborative science. Solve For X.
Fund Science and Explore the World with Renowned Researchers - Petridish. The triumph of fake open access. It’s been a heady day for “open access”.
A petition urging the Obama administration to extend the NIH’s public access policy to other government agencies blew past the halfway point in its goal to gather 25,000 signatures. And the faculty senate at UCSF voted to approve an “open access” policy that would “require” its faculty to make all of their papers freely available. Both of these are important steps in the long-running push for open access.