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open science

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Innovations in scientific publishing

There are awesome things happening and changing around how science is done and communicated, so I thought I'd put them in a list thingy. Let's go!

Can we speed up science with chat?

Combining real-time discussion between researchers with collaborative writing and data analysis, and the ability to publish very granular findings, could result in a major leap in the scale of collaboration and velocity of research...

Why we need a hub for software in science

First let’s take a step back and think about the definition of science: The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment...

Standards for scientific graphic presentation

Over the previous hundred years, a lot of work has gone into standardizing the way scientific data is presented. All of this knowledge has been largely forgotten. I want us to bring it back to life...

Discovery of scientific software

A while back I wrote about an open distributed search engine for science, Scholar Ninja, and about how great it will be to have an open API which you can query and get to all of science, no matter if you’re human or machine. Having the world’s knowledge openly accessible like that...

Thoughts on reproducibility of open scientific software

Years ago (yes, it’s been years, don’t remind me), I wrote an application for modeling the laser ablation ICP-MS mapping process. This is a thing where you make microscopic explosions with a laser and then the little bits of the stuff get blown into a blazing torch, which

How scientific figures should work in 2014

I recently asked myself if it is possible to say, based purely on tweets, whether it’s sunny in San Francisco or not. So I recorded all tweets from Tue Jan 21 12:33:21 UTC to Sat Jan 25 13:36:16 UTC, limited to a bounding box of:

3 simple things GitHub can do for science

Introduction The topic “GitHub for Science” has been explored quite a few times before (1, 2, 3, 4) and with good reason: it is quite exciting to envision what breakthroughs in scientific collaboration could come from GitHub backed explorations, with substantial capital to invest and a formidable team to execute.