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Continuing with the series of posts highlighting sessions in the Program at the upcoming ScienceOnline09, here are some sessions that deal with collaboration and networking between scientists and between their data. Community intelligence applied to gene annotation: This session is moderated by…
Sometimes good things happen to good people and this is certainly the case. Michael Nielsen has been named a SPARC Innovator for 2012. I don't usually do awards announcements here but I've made exceptions in the past for friends and I'm doing that again today. The Scholarly Publishing and Academic…
(note - I have edited this post to add in Rufus Pollock, who I left out primarily because I wasn't sure he would endorse the ideas in this post - Peter notes that he was not only at the meeting but essential, so I'm happy to add these edits!) Peter Murray-Rust has posted some essential reading for…
A milestone for Abel PharmBoy and Happy Birthday to Olduvai George! Chris asks: how to get alienated kids from inner cities interested in nature? This year saw a sharp rise in the number of multi-author scientific papers. This reflects the increasingly collaborative nature of science - no more…