Next Generation Science

• ScienceFeed: Interview with Ijad Madisch | Gobbledygook

  Martain Fenner Interviews Ijad Madisch, co-founder of the new microblogging service ScienceFeed, which is similar to FriendFeed but adds features specifically for scientists.

• Are Any Social Networks for Life Scientists Gaining Traction? | Biotechnology and Life Science Marketing Consulting: Comprendia

  Mary Canady evaluates a number of social networks for scientists and reports that some of them are increasing in popularity.

• Impact Factor Boxing 2009 | O’Really?

  What's more important: the impact of a scientific journal or of individual articles? Duncan Hull posts a table of bioinformatics journal impact factors and compares journal citation report data (impact factor, immediacy index, etc) with eigenfactor metrics.

• How do you read papers? 2010 will be different | Gobbledygook

  Martin Fenner discusses some recent developments in how scientific papers are and will be read in 2010.

• Social filtering of scientific information – a view beyond Twitter | bjoern.brembs.blog

  Bjoern Brembs reviews the micro-blogging service FriendFeed and discusses some of the features that make it useful for the online scientific community.

• The Life Scientists at FriendFeed: 2009 summary | What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate

  Neil Saunders uses R and Ruby to craft a 2009 summary of activity in The Life Scientists room at FriendFeed.

• Knowledge Plaza, a Collaborative Platform for Researchers and Experts | tigressse

  Tigressse reviews Knowledge Plaza, a knowledge management and social search platform.

• Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up | Wired

  There’s no success quite like failure. The problem with science, however, isn’t that most experiments fail, it’s that most failures are ignored.

• Twitter science list categories | Sciencebase

  If you’re searching for other scientists on Twitter, look no further than the ~700 compiled by David Bradley. An incredibly useful resource, David has organized “scientwists” in one of eight different categories, including archaeo, bio, chem, earth, physics, sci-comms, tech and space.

• Tweeting expressly prohibited at American Society of Cell Biology annual meeting | Terra Sigillata

  At this year’s meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology, Tweeting has been banned. Abel Pharmboy reports on the prohibition.

• On giving a talk about Open Access in my department | Gobbledygook

  Martin Fenner posts slides from his talk on Open Access in Medicine.

• Interview with Scientist and BenchFly founder, Alan Marnett | BioData Product Blog

  Alex at the BioData Product Blog interviews Alan Marnett, founder of BenchFly, a website for scientists that offers science videos, laboratory techniques and current protocols.

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• A brief analysis of commenting at BMC, PLoS, and BMJ | I was lost but now I live here

  Shirley Wu assesses the problem of scientists and comments (or rather, the lack thereof) at PLoS, BMJ or BioMed Central. Check out her perspective on Article-level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact with Cameron Neylon at PLoS Biology.

• Reflect | Cell Press Beta

  Reflect is a semantic enhancement tool that identifies and highlights proteins and small molecules mentioned in Cell articles. It is being piloted in two articles from the November 12th issue of Cell.

• First Anniversary (and the scientific method revisited) | Metamodern

  Eric Drexler weighs in on the problem with data-driven science (as opposed to the traditional hypothesis testing science).

• Nature Communications Q&A | Science in the open

  Cameron Neylon interviews Grace Baynes from the Nature Publishing Group communications team about the new journal Nature Communications, an online-only journal that will have an open access option.

• Promoting Open Source Science | WalterJessen.com

  Yours truly was interviewed about Open Source Science for Linux Insider recently. I published the entire interview on my blog since many of the questions and answers were left out of the final article. I trust I did the movement justice.

• Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science? | Common Knowledge

  John Wilbanks reflects on the open source software model and the problem with applying the terminology to science.

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