Thursday, March 19, 2009

Video on Open Science presentation held at Columbia University

A video of the panel presentation: "Open Science: Good for Research, Good for Researchers?" that took place at Columbia University on February 19, 2009. The video is up on the Scholarly Communication Program site at: http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/open-science-good-research-good-researchers

Panelists: Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Coordinator of E-Learning for the School of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University;
Barry Canton, founder of Ginkgo BioWorks and the OpenWetWare wiki
Bora Zivkovic, Online Discussion Expert for the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and author of "A Blog Around the Clock."

Slides and Links:

Bora Zivkovic's links

Jean-Claude Bradley's slides

Barry Canton's slides

Barry Canton's links

Friday, December 12, 2008

Your (real) Impact Factor from PhD: Piled Higher & Deeper

"Your (real) Impact Factor"
daily web comic

PhD: Piled Higher and Deeper, a graduate student web comic by Jorge Cham
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1108

10/1/2008

Gross - Another interesting comparison can be made between Grad Enrollment and the GDP (although in this case, it's harder to tell which one causes which).



Source: http://www.phdcomics.com/images/GDP.gif