Bill Hooker

clearly we need some evolution away from the human-readable paper and the standalone database as containers for the things we know, or the things we believe. The information space is simply too big for any one brain to process any more, and Google simply isn't as efficient for science as it is for culture... Tagged by sennoma under oaos.quotes, - Bill Hooker

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J. A. Evans's Report "Electronic publication and the narrowing of science and scholarship" (18 July, p. 395) suggests that (i) the average age of citations to scientific papers dropped over the years as more electronic papers became accessible and (ii) the citations are concentrated on a smaller proportion of papers and journals. Such conclusions are not warranted by Evans's data. To measure the evolution of the average (or median) age of the references contained in papers, one has to look at all the references in all published papers and observe the evolution of their age over time. As we have shown using Thomson Reuters's Web of Science data for the period 1900 to 2004 (for a total of 500 million references in 25 million papers), the average (and median) age of all references began to decrease in 1945 but has increased steadily since the mid-1960s. This trend is visible in all sciences, including the social sciences and the humanities (1, 2). The median age of references in fields... - Bill Hooker

Behind a paywall for me, I'll get it later... but this looks very interesting. - Michael Nielsen

position papers for the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking are now available. Tagged by sennoma under social.science, socialsoftware, social.networking, - Bill Hooker

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last sentence - bottom up approaches are certainly doing a lot for OS these days - Jean-Claude Bradley

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Viz., FF's signal:noise ratio is currently the best of any social site I've ever used, and I don't plan to be the one dragging that down! :-) - Bill Hooker

But the damage is done - my hippocampus has already encoded the information. I automatically think that you like knitting when your name comes up - even though I know better :) - Jean-Claude Bradley

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you are working too hard man... - Cameron Neylon

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Isn't that exactly what a statistical potential is, at least in structure space. And what a substitution matrix essentially does as well - Deepak

Do you mean this Tübinger toolkit? http://toolkit.tuebingen.mpg.d... ? BTW, CLCBio does also sequence logos, and I miss Tübingen ;-) - joergkurtwegner

@Joerg: yes, that's the one. - Bill Hooker

A panel discussion on the debate about the best way to rank the importance and influence of scholarly publications. Panelists: Marian Hollingsworth, director of Publisher Relations at Thomson Reuters and former assistant director of the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services; Jevin West, an Achievement Awards for College Scientists Fellow at the University of Washington's Biology Department and head developer for Eigenfactor.org; and Johan Bollen, a staff researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the principal investigator of the MESUR project. Columbia University Librarian Jim Neal introduces the talk. Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics, impactfactor, - Bill Hooker

Michael Barton with another neat idea. - Bill Hooker

Glenn S. McGuigan and Robert D. Russell, The Business of Academic Publishing: A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing, Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, Winter 2008. Tagged by sennoma under serialscrisis, readthis, - Bill Hooker

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This is the Wikispace companion to SCIEnCE - Share Collaborative Ideas, Enact Cooperative Efforts. Scientific ideas are collaboratively composed using Wiki functionality. The result will be research designs that are optimized before funding and embarking on a project. Once a core group of contributors and proposals are accumulated, SCIEnCE will seek funding to reward the best contributors and projects. Tagged by sennoma under openscience, - Bill Hooker

MESUR is now producing large-scale, longitudinal maps of the scholarly community and a survey of more than 60 different metrics of scholarly impact. Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics, impactfactor, - Bill Hooker

If you like that I just printed out a whole folder full of fun for you. :-) - Bill Hooker

F'rinstance, Did You Know(TM)? Nocodazole doesn't really synchronize cells, and it blocks them at a weird point in the breakdown of the nuclear envelope at prometaphase -- so you can isolate nuclei, but they're probably leaky, and you've no simple way of knowing what proportion of your cells have already no nuclear/cyto separation... Meh. - Bill Hooker

Ignorance is not bliss, it's wasted bloody experiments, that's what it is! - Bill Hooker

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None taken, neurocritic. Thing about PP is, he's actually smart and thoughtful -- you just have to ignore the schtick and make allowances for the fact that he's a product of his (wealthy, privileged) environment. I give him props for being able to see as much of his own privilege as he does, notably in re: women in science. I disagree with him on most things, but find him a useful 'proving ground' for my ideas. - Bill Hooker

Which is why I do wade through those comment threads occasionally -- though I quite understand why most folks wouldn't. :-) - Bill Hooker

poor kido! It's not even knee high! Go get a shovel and start working out those nice arms of yours. - Paulo Nuin

I would, Paulo, but there's nowhere to shovel to. All the buses are canceled, and I'm not shoveling the whole 5 miles from here to work! :-) - Bill Hooker

Make mountains!! - Paulo Nuin

Chilly here in Sydney too, apparently forecasting only 22 C Might have to put on a long sleeved shirt... - Cameron Neylon

what is your elevation Bill? - Maureen

I dunno -- we're on Holgate, right around Woodstock. I guess we're at about 1/3 or 1/2 the elevation of Pill Hill. - Bill Hooker

how to search for total number of records in any PubMed database Tagged by sennoma under pubmed, - Bill Hooker

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Interesting... again, I'm in the wrong business... :( - Egon Willighagen

As Richard Smith says, "Robert Maxwell got rich through publishing science, not newspapers." http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm... - Graham Steel

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