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By jdupuis on February 10, 2011.
  • Are science blogs stuck in an echo chamber? Chamber? Chamber?
  • What's a PhD worth at the finish line? On hiring committees
  • 'Academically Adrift'
  • Dlib on research data
  • E-books and Their Containers: A Bestiary of the Evolving Book
  • Managing your scholarly identity
  • To Library, or Not to Library
  • Knowledge Dissemination: blogging vs peer review
  • The journo-programmer
  • Publishing an open access book?
  • 10 reasons NOT to be on Twitter
  • Heads they win, tails we lose: Discovery tools will never deliver on their promise
  • Pirates of Perchance
  • Science Blogging and Tenure
  • On Science Publishing by John Wilbanks
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