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National student organizations call for Open Access to research (SPARC)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:17:08 -0400

National student organizations call for Open Access to research (SPARC)

"The RIAA, MPAA, BSA, and CRIA all report dire numbers for piracy and billions lost, numbers which..."

Thu, 21 May 2009 08:30:35 -0400

“The RIAA, MPAA, BSA, and CRIA all report dire numbers for piracy and billions lost, numbers which they obtain by… making them up. Seriously, they just pull them out of thin air. I might as well say eliminating software piracy would cause Canada to have more pleasant summers and would increase the bison herd. There’s just as much evidence for that.”

- Science Library Pad: a call to journalists to do serious reporting on content copying

"Merck cooked up a phony, but real sounding, peer reviewed journal and published favorably looking..."

Mon, 04 May 2009 11:36:53 -0400

“Merck cooked up a phony, but real sounding, peer reviewed journal and published favorably looking data for its products in them. Merck paid Elsevier to publish such a tome, which neither appears in MEDLINE or has a website, according to The Scientist.”

- Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal | blog.bioethics.net

Making it even tougher for students to figure out where they can find reliable information.

G T C A ! The latest video from Bio-Rad (via...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:48:00 -0400

G T C A ! The latest video from Bio-Rad (via comparenetworks)

"Fellow readers, if a fierce book purist like me … can be lured into liking e-books, well,..."

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:32:51 -0400

“Fellow readers, if a fierce book purist like me … can be lured into liking e-books, well, then, I suspect pretty much anybody can.”

- Lost in the Pixels of a Good Book: The E-book Problem - ShelfTalker: A Children’s Bookseller’s Blog - Blog on Publishers Weekly

Toward an All E-Textbook Campus :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:44:56 -0500

Toward an All E-Textbook Campus :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs:

Northwest Missouri State University has a track record of innovation when it comes to providing students with their textbooks. They are now trying to move to ebooks, although the business models and availability aren’t always quite right.

Battlestar Book: Battlestarbook Tells The Tale Of BSG, Facebook-Style

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:31:03 -0500

Battlestar Book: Battlestarbook Tells The Tale Of BSG, Facebook-Style

Austenbook

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:28:45 -0500

Austenbook:

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as told via a Facebook newsfeed.

Book Drop Craziness “a picture of an actual item as...

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:52:55 -0500

Book Drop Craziness

“a picture of an actual item as returned in the Mullica Hill branch book drop!”

"And, fair or not, scientists are likely to find more persuasive the testimony of those they take to..."

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:06:44 -0500

“And, fair or not, scientists are likely to find more persuasive the testimony of those they take to be honest and meticulous, Scientists who can’t even do a good literature search may have other as yet unexposed gaps in their practice that render their testimony less credible.”

- Adventures in Ethics and Science: Bad cites. Bad science?

"In a world where rigorous evidence from scientific research languishes unpublicised, the media..."

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:34:30 -0500

“In a world where rigorous evidence from scientific research languishes unpublicised, the media continued to churn out bogus wacky science stories.”

- Bad Science » The Year in Bad Science

On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess : On Motherhood and Maintaining Your Identity...

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:23:02 -0500

On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess : On Motherhood and Maintaining Your Identity...

We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code. The Code4Lib Journal.

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:25:36 -0500

We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code. The Code4Lib Journal.

Notoriety as a renaissance artist, ninja turtle, or...

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:18:10 -0500

Notoriety as a renaissance artist, ninja turtle, or scientist.

From The World’s Fair

Defending the Fruit Flies from Sarah Palin :: Inside Higher Ed

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:27:35 -0400

Defending the Fruit Flies from Sarah Palin :: Inside Higher Ed

The Winner's Curse and Scientific Publishing : Pure Pedantry

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:43:37 -0400

The Winner's Curse and Scientific Publishing : Pure Pedantry

SUNY Students "willing to pay more for education, to a degree"

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:34:16 -0400

SUNY Students "willing to pay more for education, to a degree":

SUNY Student Assembly weighs resolution calling for a new policy of modest annual tuition increases

Strange Maps

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:19:03 -0400

Strange Maps

A Very Brief Introduction to the Scientific Literature

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:10:31 -0400

A Very Brief Introduction to the Scientific Literature:

A little something I wrote up to fill a need for lower level undergraduates who don’t quite get taught the entire scientific process. You know, the stuff that comes after the experiments.

Things to avoid when speaking publicly.

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:00:12 -0400

Things to avoid when speaking publicly.