Jean-Claude Bradley

April 8, 2010

Embracing Open Science

Filed under: Open Notebook Science,web of science — Duncan Hull @ 10:37 pm
Tags: Anthony Salvagno, Brian Krueger, Carl Boettiger, Chelsea Wald, Declan Butler, Jean-Claude Bradley, Jonathan Eisen, open science, openwetware, Sarah Kendrew, Stevan Harnad, Steve Koch

There’s an interesting article [1] by Chelsea Wald in Science magazine published today, about Open Science including Open Source Code, Open Notebook Science, Open Data and Open Access Publishing.

It interviews some of the advocates and sceptics of a more open approach to doing Science, including:

Jonathan Eisen, University of California Davis
Steve Koch, University of New Mexico
Anthony Salvagno, University of New Mexico
Sarah Kendrew, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel University
Carl Boettiger, University of California Davis
Brian Krueger, University of Iowa

It’s well worth a read, despite being a bit US-centric, and looks like it’s freely available via Open Access Publishing [2] too.

[Update: There is some follow-up commentary on the original article here and here]

References

Chelsea Wald (2010). Scientists Embrace Openness Science (2010-04-09) DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.a1000036
Declan Butler (2010). US seeks to make science free for all Nature, 464 (7290), 822-823 DOI: 10.1038/464822a

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September 12, 2008

Blogging Professors: Big Boffins with Blogs

I’ve been hunting all over the interweb looking for Professors that have blogs. While it would be a good thing if there were more, (see the science blogging challenge 2008), there are surprising amount of big boffins that already blog. I should say that by big, I mean (full) professor. By boffin I mean a person practicing science including biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering and hell, even computer “science” and the “dismal science” of economics too. By blog I mean, a web-log or a lab-log which is personal, frequently updated (with web feed) and allows comments. Here is my collection of big boffins with blogs, with a little help from friendfeed.com [1]. It is ordered alphabetically by surname and I hope it gives a flavour of some of the bloggers out there on the Web. If you know any more, please let me know. (more…)

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September 4, 2008

Famous for fifteen people

Filed under: web of science — Duncan Hull @ 2:47 pm
Tags: Andrew Walkingshaw, Andy Warhol, axiope, badscience, barcamb, Ben Goldacre, BrainDuck, Brian Cox, cameron neylon, Clan Duncan, connotea, Coracle, DIUS, Egon Willighagen, Euan Adie, Gia Millinovich, Jean-Claude Bradley, London, Marilyn Monroe, Mekentosj, MOMA, momus, myexperiment, Nature Network, New York, nobel, NTK, penis, people, Peter Murray-Rust, sciblog, scifoo, soloconf, soloconf_09, Timo Hannay, Zoe Corbyn

The artist Andy Warhol once said:

“In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes”.

This well worn saying has been quoted and misquoted in hundreds of different ways in the forty years since Warhol first coined it [1].

Bad Scientist Ben Goldacre, in his keynote speech* at Science Blogging (sciblog) 2008, highlighted one of these deliberate misquotes, which he attributed to NTK.net (Need To Know: Britain’s most sarcastic high-tech weekly newsletter). It goes a little something like this:

“On the internet everybody can be world famous for fifteen people“.

This wonderful expression captures the nature and scale of science blogging on the internet today in a nutshell. Personally, I think it also sums up much of the spirit of the Science Blogging 2008 conference as well. In total, around eight groups of fifteen people, attended the conference. It was physically impossible to talk to all of them in one day, especially since I had to slink off early at 7pm, but I did manage to meet the following people: (more…)

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August 26, 2008

Open Notebook Science in Manchester

Filed under: informatics — Duncan Hull @ 2:33 pm
Tags: drug discovery, Horace Moody, Jean-Claude Bradley, myexperiment, Open Notebook Science, Second Life

Organic chemist Jean-Claude Bradley is currently touring the UK. He is doing various talks up and down the country, including one in Manchester on Friday September 5th 2008 at the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB). So, if you’re interested in novel uses of web technology, including Open Notebook Science to facilitate drug discovery, come along and join the fun. The abstract for his talk on Open Notebook Science using free and hosted tools can be found over at myexperiment.org which is sponsoring this event.

Creative Commons licensed picture of Jean-Claude Bradley (aka Horace Moody) in Second Life by Hiro Sheridan.

update see Jean-Claude Bradley’s presentation on slideshare:

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