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Indian education needs proper policy
The undergraduate education in India is booming (Nature, vol 472, 24 – 26, 2011) and the government is increasing investment towards research and higher education. However, lack of quality education as well as proper policy remains a major concern.... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest: Chimera, Comets & Colour
The 'Weekly Science Digest' is a compilation of science news from around the world. News suggestions are always welcome: mark.howardbanks@researchgate.net The World Health Organisation yesterday announced that the strain of E. coli behind the current... Read more »
5 ways to make the most of the Internet as an early career research...
The Internet has already had a huge impact on how we communicate with each other, do business, and maintain our personal relationships - and it’s now starting to change to face of how we do research. Whether you’re a graduate student straight out of... Read more »
Weekly Science Digest
The 'Weekly Science Digest' is a compilation of science news from around the world. News suggestions are always welcome: mark.howardbanks@researchgate.net Researchers at the University of Arkansas have created fuel by cleaning up lakes and rivers. T... Read more »
AI and medicine: What can Watson do for mental health?
This TED Talk is a postmortem on the defeat of two human Jeopardy! champions by Watson, an IBM natural language-processing computer. Of interest to me (beyond the fascination of potentially moving closer to Ray Kurzweil's singularity) is the discussi... Read more »
Academia and Social Network Sites
The Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences just published a research report on the potential of social network sites for science and academia in the framework of the project "Interactive Science": Nentwich, M. un... Read more »
Four pillars of Science 2.0: How to enable web 2.0 for scientists...
Science, for the most part, is unaware of the existence of Web 2.0. Instead, a "legacy gap” exists. Modern research policies, laws, culture and impact measurement methods deter scientists from adopting Web 2.0. This in turn prevents scientists from... Read more »
Google, Google Scholar, Google Books and Science
The Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences just published a research report on the role of Google, Google Scholar and Google Books for science, in the framework of the project "Interactive Science": König, R., Ne... Read more »
What is Worldology
Worldology is a term I coined back in 1984 during my first year as a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. Back then there was really no pressing need to speak of globalization regardless of the fact that the proces... Read more »
Institutional e-mails under papers - still good state of the art?
Most researchers still use institutional e-mails in papers, abstracts or presentations. I don't think this is appropriate, especially with today's researcher's mobility and not-forwarding institute admins. Supporting institution is clearly provided by the affiliation. Read more »
“Quality not Quantity” – German Research Foundati...
DFG counteracts tendency to prefer number of publications over quality of research! Great step of the DFG - Let us hope that this is the start of a policy change! Read more »
Safe Electronic Health Record Use Requires a Comprehensive Monitori...
1: Ability to report safety events related to use 2: Enhanced certification 3: Self-assessment of 8 aspects of the EHR safe use framework have been addressed 4: On-site, in-person accreditation of EHRs as implemented & used 5: National EHR-related adverse event investigation board that reviews incidents. Read more »
Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO): Optimizing Scholarly Li...
Have you ever thought about how to get your scientific article into a top position in Google Scholar's result lists? In our article "Academic Search Engine Optimization (ASEO)" we provide guidelines on how to optimize your research articles for Google Scholar. Read more »
Information Wants To Be Free
The open access "movement" has existed for decades, but with the coming of the digital age in the 90's it truly bloomed as the distribution cost of electronic media dropped to essentially nothing. Some groups completely embraced the paradigm-shifting... Read more »
Sharing new ideas early ?
Two ways: "I will only share this idea if it lead to the desired outcome and if the paper is ready" VS "we share lots of ideas, some spark, some don't, we need to get used to unpredictability. Idea-inventorship could be granted by new publication forms such as tweets or microarticles." Read more »
Microblogging and Science
The Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences just published a research report on the potential of microblogging for science, with a focus on Twitter, in the framework of the project "Interactive Science": Herwig, J... Read more »
NAA and JFK: Can revisionism take us home?
A rebuttal to a paper by Clifford Spiegelman, et al dealing with the bullet lead evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The rebuttal corrects errors of fact and demonstrates conclusively that the authors use of a Bayes based equation was incomplete and specious. Read more »
Statistical significance
Statistical significance ? p<0.05 does NOT mean that my hypothesis is with a probability of 95% correct! It means, that if my hypothesis is wrong the likelihood of my finding would be 5% due to chance. Turning this around is a major mistake, even done by many professionals! Read more »
Social Networking
It never ceased to amaze me how many social networking programs have developed in the last few years. Everything from Facebook to Youtube, Wikipedia, and many other networking programs to many to mention have developed to keep people in touch with on... Read more »
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