I visited the cavernous confines of Olympia Grand Hall in west London yesterday, totally unprepared for the mammoth event that is the Online Information Conference (#online09 on Twitter). Not sure what I was expecting: maybe a few stands with bored sales reps handing out flyers on data management and XML development (they had some of…
One of our freelancers wrote a great article about a recent review on the f1000 site, so I wanted to reproduce it here: How do scientists decide what to investigate? Often, they choose an area that is in high demand, hoping to get their work into the best journals as soon as possible. But according…
Scientists can sometimes be unfairly labeled as not caring about anything apart from their lab, grant applications and drug patents. So it’s heartening that one of our important causes – offering free subscriptions to institutions in developing countries – gains such a positive response from Faculty Members and the recipients of free subscriptions. Faculty Members…
In a previous post I mentioned the lovely Darlene Cavalier, the former cheerleader turned science boffin who, among many other projects, is bringing science concepts to the people in a way they can always understand, ie by having Philadelphia 76ers cheerleaders give sciency facts while looking pretty and shaking their pom poms. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u6oDP7GYt4&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1] Darlene (also…
There was some serious geeking-out going on in the office just now—at least, in the part where the dev team and myself interact. IT have been wandering around the joint with little white boxes that have aerials sticking out of them, and then Phil came over and asked for my MAC. A little while later…
