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By jdupuis on October 20, 2011.
  • Social Media for Scientists Part 1: It's Our Job
  • Social Media for Scientists Part 2: You Do Have Time
  • Social Media for Scientists Part 2.5: Breaking Stereotypes
  • Social Media For Scientists Part 3: Win-Win
  • The economics of science blogging
  • The three things I learned at the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women: on being a radical scholar
  • Coming to blows over books
  • Where should our information literacy standards come from?
  • Asked and Answered: Here's What I Think the Aaron Swartz Case Means
  • Are Teaching and Research Distinct?
  • Doing Science in the Open
  • Joe Murphy as Apple Advertisement - We've Been Played (here and here)
  • The Six Attitudes Leaders Take Towards Social Media
  • The Power of Blogs in Forming New Fields of International Study
  • Our Blogs, Ourselves
  • Revamping Reference
  • Experiencing the Shift
  • Invisible goalposts, support and having a plan
  • Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System
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