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Cameron Neylon has written an “open letter”:http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2008/08/06/an-open-letter-to-the-developers-of-social-network-and-‘web-20’-tools-for-scientists/ to the developers of SciLink and FaceScientist and all the rest of them, pleading for some sort of cooperation. In the less rarefied atmosphere of the world outside of Science, social networking sites … Continue reading →

Jenny says that ‘most people’ reckon the average cost to produce a peer-reviewed article in an online-only journal is around $3,000. Which means that the publishing houses now charging around that amount of money to make your article ‘open access’ … Continue reading →

I happen to know that our “very own” Dr Rohn is currently in the wilds of Colorado with limited internet access. So I’ll do her a favor and point you at this lovely story in today’s Nature.

If you’re an avid follower of the comments elsewhere on Nature Network you might have gathered that Graham Steel and meself were involved in one of those new-fangled podcast jobbies earlier in the week. It was done over Skype: two … Continue reading →

Beautifully-worded retraction in today’s Science. It essentially says “We screwed up. Oh, and this method? It’s, um, harder than we thought. Sorry. But we’re much smarter now than we were a few years ago.” The authors deserve a medal for … Continue reading →

I was going to write this as a comment on Henry’s post, but decided it deserved a post of its own. Sorry Corie, it’s only peripherally about science. True story. At the GRC earlier this month during one of the … Continue reading →

I was checking over some old emails these morning, looking for a particular nugget of information (which I found, by the way. Thanks for asking), when I came across an email from Jenny. We were talking about LabLit and how … Continue reading →

It’s a real life story except of course, we have no context. No numbers. Just media massage. feh.

Apart from one whinge, I’ve been studiously avoiding commenting on the Eppendorf pipetting video (despite receiving a dozen emails pointing to it in the last week alone). Then I discover that the inestimable Maxine has blogged about it in response … Continue reading →

Drop-down on the National Express website, which I saw while booking tickets to get to the blogging conference. And carbon emission offsets for trains? WHAT?