Category Archives: Research
Community-driven discovery in biology
Abstract of presentation given by Ralph Schroeder and myself at the 2009 biennial conference of the Association for History, Philosophy and Social Science of Biology, Brisbane, Australia. Community-driven efforts at collaborative knowledge production have recently taken off (Olson, Zimmerman and Bos 2008). The success of … Read More →
Web 2.0 as a facilitator of Scientific/Intellectual Movements
Abstract of presentation given at the 2009 ANZCA conference in Brisbane, Australia. This presentation explores concepts from the General Theory of Scientific/Intellectual Movements (Frickel & Gross, 2005) in relation to extension of scientific communication by use of online research tools in the life sciences. It … Read More →
Web 2.0: The Impact of Bottom-up Research Innovation
Abstract from the NeSC workshop on The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users presentation given by myself and Eric T. Meyer. In this presentation, Meyer & Power will discuss the various impacts Web 2.0 research tools are having on … Read More →
e-Research 2.0: Taking the Measure of Web 2.0 in e-Research
A presentation by Ralph Schroeder, Eric T. Meyer and myself at the Oxford e-Research conference. Eric has the slides on slideshare.
Blogging the Lab Book
Last week I attended a workshop on Blog based laboratory notebooks in Abingdon, courtesy of Cameron Neylon of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Southampton University. Cameron has summarised the discussion and findings, and there’s also a good summary of the first day written by Duncan … Read More →
Science sites and networks
Scintilla Postgenomic Science bloggers list Nature network Biomed experts CREW Skua MyExperiment
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