WikiSym 2011 is open for registration and student volunteers! Jane Park, September 9th, 2011 Earlier this year, we announced that Creative Commons is an official sponsor of the 7th annual WikiSym, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. WikiSym is taking place right near Creative Commons headquarters in Mountain View, CA on October 3-5 at Microsoft Research Campus in Silicon Valley. WikiSym is the premier conference on open collaboration and related technologies for researchers, industry, entrepreneurs and practitioners worldwide. Key topics in WikiSym include open collaboration and related technologies, open content, open licenses and their connections and implications for different areas of interest (education, e-democracy, data transparency and industry). The conference program is packed with presentations, workshops, panels, demos and keynotes. This year, WikiSym is proud to host 3 outstanding keynotes by world-renowned figures in their fields. WikiSym 2011 registration is still open.
Réseaux sociaux scientifiques SocialMed: Social Networks for Researchers - in Primary Care, General Primary Care from MedPage Today As more medical and science researchers take to publishing their papers in open-access journals, so too have they adopted more online collaboration in bringing those studies to fruition. Though some social networking sites for researchers, such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu, have been around for a few years, their use appears to have hit a critical mass. Every day, researchers post questions about everything from which stem cell lines to use in a certain experiment to the best DNA sequencing technologies. Founders of these sites are quick to tout not only their role in accelerating the scientific process, but also their ability to offer a home even to negative results -- thus painting a more accurate overall portrait of the science, they claim. ResearchGate (@ResearchGate) www.researchgate.net Founded by Berlin-based virologist and computer scientist Ijad Madisch (@IjadMadisch), ResearchGate has a Google Plus feel, with various discussions showing up on a homepage. Academia.edu (@academia)
What Is A Scientific Social Network? 6 Thriving and Inspiring Examples | Biotechnology and Life Science Marketing Consulting: Comprendia A recent article from the Huffington Post states that social networks for scientists won’t work because there is no incentive from a career perspective. The piece focuses on ResearchGate and takes a stab at the Economist’s article about the community. Here at Comprendia, we’ve never advocated that Facebook should be recreated for scientists, as there are 700,000+ life science graduates in the US already using the application,* and they are likely already connected there to lab mates and colleagues. Rather, we should broaden our idea of the ‘social network’ to include any online community of scientists, not just those which are similar to Facebook. Facebook Pages & LinkedIn Groups. The scientist that is described in the Huffington Post article is preoccupied only with the end result of publications, not improving the path towards them. What areas do you think the organizations named, or communities themselves should focus on to take scientific social networks to the next level?
Twittos scientificus Twitter, Facebook, Viadeo… sont des réseaux sociaux en pleine évolution. Leurs récentes arrivées dans la sphère privée, les médias, les stratégies de communication, les rendent omniprésents dans nos vies. Sur les réseaux chacun gère à sa manière la séparation entre la vie privée et la vie professionnelle. Logo de Twitter (c) twitter Twitter est un site de microblogging social créé en 2007 à San Francisco, aux Etats-Unis. Recherche du hashtag #nucléaire sur Twitter Selon une étude de 2010, bien que le nombre d’utilisateurs soit plus faible sur Twitter que sur Facebook, les 10% des « twittos » les plus actifs sont les utilisateurs du web les plus influents. La science s’oppose souvent aux médias d’information par la lenteur de son processus : durée des projets de recherche, temps de diffusion des résultats dans les revues classiques. Les "carnets de recherche" sur hypotheses.org Mélodie Faury (@infusoir) #réflexivité #bienscommuns #circulationdessavoirs En savoir plus Annexe A : Annexe B :
Les Nouveaux Outils Numériques pour la recherche scientifique Que vous soyez étudiants, chercheurs ou ingénieurs vous maîtrisez probablement à la perfection certains outils informatiques : powerpoint, éditeurs de texte, messageries électroniques. D’autres outils, moins utilisés, existent et ont chacun une utilité spécifique. En recherche comme dans de nombreux domaines, il est important d’organiser son emploi du temps et d’utiliser des outils pertinents et adaptés. Avez-vous besoin d’organiser votre veille bibliographique, d’échanger des fichiers volumineux ou bien d’optimiser votre travail d’équipe ? Les petits nouveaux se nomment : ResearcherID, Figshare, Prezi ou Sozi, les connaissez-vous ? Une version en anglais de cet article est disponible : The new digital tools for scientific research Gestion bibliographique et veille scientifique Notre article sur les outils de veille scientifique en open access et moteurs de recherche est resté depuis septembre 2011 l’article le plus consulté sur le blog MyScienceWork. Optimiser le travail d’équipe
Why should scientists use Twitter? - The Plainspoken Scientist I have been teaching science communication workshops for scientists for over two years, and not much from those seminars is met with more skepticism than when I say Twitter can be a great tool for science outreach, even for professional development. “Oh Twitter. Why should I waste my time with that?” But rather than enumerating all the reasons to use Twitter myself, I thought I would ask the scientists following our AGU account to explain how they use Twitter in 140 characters or less. My question was: “Why should scientists use Twitter /what should researchers use Twitter for?” Kea Giles, managing editor at the Geological Society of America, tweets: “Scientists can use Twitter to create/develop new collegial relationships, foster interdisciplinary research & generate ideas.” Many scientists-tweeps use Twitter to get input from other researchers: hydrologist and blogger Anne Jefferson says she finds it very useful “for getting quick answers & links to references from peers.