{"id":55,"date":"2007-08-16T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2007\/08\/16\/will_you_still_love_me_tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T11:00:41","slug":"will_you_still_love_me_tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2007\/08\/16\/will_you_still_love_me_tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Will you still love me tomorrow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day or two ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usyd.edu.au\/labrats\/2007\/08\/velvet_green.html\">wrote<\/a> about an experiment I did last week, that wasn&#8217;t spectacularly ground-breaking but was a great deal of fun (all right, so maybe I don&#8217;t get out as much as I should).<\/p>\n<p>\nIt set me to thinking about how much detail it is appropriate to include in weblog entries.  And then it set me to thinking again, after doing a bit of technorating, because the post had been picked up by the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.openwetware.org\/scienceintheopen\/2007\/08\/16\/a-great-example-of-fun\/\">OpenWetWare<\/a> people.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Green Fluorescent Wow!&#8217; experiment (HT to <a href=\"http:\/\/wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk\/blogs\/murrayrust\/\">Peter<\/a>) was pretty simple and straightforward:  An easy cloning experiment with a slight cleverness in choice of reagents, no IP and nothing particularly smart.  But I&#8217;ve got other experiments underway that <em>are<\/em> clever, and potentially very exciting.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo can I write on my weblog, either here under my real name or there pseudonymously, about them?  And how much detail can I give?  If I say &#8220;My protein seems to do something odd to cell-motility&#8221;, is that a elegant sufficiency of detail?  Surely people will get bored with generalizations, but am I right to worry, as one of our PIs does, that I might compromise my project by posting too much detail?  Should I be posting pictures of cells that are doing odd things?<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s not a case of &#8220;Can I trust you bastards not to steal my work?&#8221; but balancing the ideal of &#8216;open source science&#8217; with the need to publish before anyone else.  I have responsibilities \u2014 to the boss and to my cow-orkers \u2014, but I also want to share the fun and joy and heartache of this vocation.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat would you do, chums?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day or two ago I wrote about an experiment I did last week, that wasn&#8217;t spectacularly ground-breaking but was a great deal of fun (all right, so maybe I don&#8217;t get out as much as I should). It set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2007\/08\/16\/will_you_still_love_me_tomorrow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}