Monthly Archives: June 2012

Stumbling and Mumbling: What use is academic rigour?

Chris Dillow asks a question near and dear to the hearts of those of us working to have an impact on the world: Stumbling and Mumbling: What use is academic rigour?. What we need, of course, is a different account … Continue reading

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The Death of TV

I watched the SCOTUS ruling today on ACA, in real time online, on scotusblog while bouncing between Sullivan’s Daily Dish, the NYTs, Drudge, and others. Sullivan too was collating comments from all over. And he posted screen captures of both … Continue reading

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Here’s the map… what’s the territory?

Maps of science have been proliferating for a number of years now, and interest has been heavily correlated to the advancement of mapping technologies. Philosophy has finally produced a blip on the mapping radar, and the results are pretty interesting. … Continue reading

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Random notes from the altmetrics12 conference | Gobbledygook

Martin Fenner of PLoS gives his take on the recent altmetrics12 workshop here: Random notes from the altmetrics12 conference | Gobbledygook.

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Is there a conflict between altmetrics and peer review?

Some Thoughts on Peer Review and Altmetrics | Partially Attended An interesting take on my abstract for the upcoming altmetrics12 workshop from Ian Mulvaney – Head of Technology for a neat new publishing endeavor in the UK called eLifeSciences. …after … Continue reading

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Business – Kara Miller – The Most Important Challenge For Colleges Isn’t Price—It’s Attention – The Atlantic

Wow:   This is one of my favorite anecdotes: Last year, the University of Phoenix enlisted renowned Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen to record a lecture. The university reserved a harbor-view room for Christensen and populated it with young … Continue reading

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Scholars are quickly moving toward a universe of web-native communication | Impact of Social Sciences

Jason Priem’s new post on the LSEImpact blog is quite interesting. For example: We found Web presence widespread and diverse: 84 per cent of scholars had homepages, 70 per cent were on LinkedIn, 23 per cent had public Google Scholar profiles, and 16 … Continue reading

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Mulling on Mull | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission

Rebecca Willis introduces us to the notion of “outdoor philosophy,” as championed by Kate Rawles. Mulling on Mull | Rebecca Willis | Independent Researcher & Vice-Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission.

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At odds with one’s ends – the academy and Google talk judgment

A recent LSE Impact blog piece about the steering effects of publication pressures highlights that inattention to policy on the part of academics is largely the result of ‘rewarding A and hoping for B’ – Aristotle would call this a … Continue reading

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Mozilla and the National Science Foundation launch open innovation challenge | The Mozilla Blog

Wow! Interesting: Mozilla and the National Science Foundation launch open innovation challenge | The Mozilla Blog.

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Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access

Neil Stewart of City University provides more insight into recent developments regarding Open Access: RSP event: Scholarly Communications: New Developments in Open Access « City Open Access.

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How Does “Big Data” Change the Research Landscape for the Humanities and Social Sciences? — Council on Library and Information Resources

Report out on Digging into Data: How Does “Big Data” Change the Research Landscape for the Humanities and Social Sciences? — Council on Library and Information Resources.

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Your Peers, Your Science. Academic Publishing is Evolving. – PeerJ Blog

A new journal has just opened its doors for business, and it’s making quite a splash. The reason is its proposed new publishing model. Authors will pay a one-time fee ($259) for lifetime privileges to submit to the journal, have … Continue reading

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altmetrics12 program – altmetrics.org

Everyone is invited to check out the program for the upcoming altmetrics12 workshop: altmetrics12 program – altmetrics.org. It’s happening next week, but you can participate early — even if you are unable to make the workshop itself. Abstracts are posted … Continue reading

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Overreach?

Scientists engaged in outreach face prejudice from colleagues who think that real science and outreach are incompatible. Speak Up, Scientists! – Percolator – The Chronicle of Higher Education. This doesn’t bode well for those of us trying to get scientists … Continue reading

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Ought women not to be abolished altogether?

I should hope not. But this is the brilliant theme of a satyrical letter brought to the  attention of Twitter by Gillian Rendle. I think it’s worth sharing here, since it’s at least somewhat relevant to the issue of the … Continue reading

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McGraw-Hill Education Establishes First-Ever “Pay-for-Performance” Business Model In Partnership With Western Governors University

I am not sure as yet what I think about this. McGraw-Hill Education Establishes First-Ever “Pay-for-Performance” Business Model In Partnership With Western Governors University.

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Dude, where’s my culture?

Justin E. H. Smith recently authored a piece in the NYT Stone blog regarding cultural bias inherent in the teaching of Western philosophy. It hooks up nicely with his review of the experimental philosophy movement – dubbed x-phi – spearheaded … Continue reading

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Making an impact: when science and politics collide | Adam Smith | Talking science to power | Science | guardian.co.uk

More on the UK’s so-called “impact agenda” here: Making an impact: when science and politics collide | Adam Smith | Talking science to power | Science | guardian.co.uk. This is skewed in favor of those scientists protesting against the impact … Continue reading

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Science in the Open » Blog Archive » 25,000 signatures and still rolling: Implications of the White House petition

  The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. –Nietzsche   Cameron Neylon awakens to a nice surprise, takes stock, and wonders: what’s next for Open Access? The really hard work of implementation is … Continue reading

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We Need to Talk – about #Twitter: Reciprocal Knowledge Engine PLUS « nigelcameron.org

One of my favorite “research assistants” is Nigel Cameron (follow him on Twitter @nigelcameron) . Why? He wrote this post on the value of Twitter: We Need to Talk – about #Twitter: Reciprocal Knowledge Engine PLUS « nigelcameron.org. I largely … Continue reading

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What data can and cannot do | News | guardian.co.uk

Jonathan Gray argues that aspiring data journalists and civic data hackers should strive to cut back on data-driven hype and to cultivate a more critical literacy towards their subject matter. What data can and cannot do | News | guardian.co.uk. … Continue reading

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