Category Archives: Research tools

A new development in scientific integrity

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Frank Norman

This is a 1st April post, I won’t call it April Fool’s as there’s only one set of fools mentioned here. Rest assured that CrapMed does not (yet) exist. ———————————- Recent changes in US scientific research are very worrying. The … Continue reading →

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ReCon 2016 – my favourite small conference

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Frank Norman

ReCon has become my favourite small conference about publishing and research. It’s held each June in Edinburgh. I attended it in 2015 and really enjoyed it. There were stimulating presentations on non-trivial topics, and plenty of interesting conversations over coffee and lunch. … Continue reading →

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Solo Hackday

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Frank Norman

Once upon a time I might have described myself as a techie. My career was founded on my willingness to install hgopher and Trumpet Winsock and fiddle with autoexec.bat and config.sys. This gave people access to the wonders of the … Continue reading →

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“Facebook for scientists”

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Frank Norman

Soon after Nature Network launched in 2007 it was being touted as the “Facebook for scientists”. Other sites that had been around longer, such as FriendFeed and LabSpaces, occasionally got that moniker too (and indeed Facebook bought out FriendFeed later on).  … Continue reading →

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Is this the killer application for researchers?

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Frank Norman

Colwiz stands for ‘collective wisdom’ (terrible name!). It advertises itself as ‘research management, collaboration and productivity in one place for free’ and has just been launched by a group of scientists at Oxford University. They say it will help you … Continue reading →

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