Category Archives: Science Foo

Starting an Open Notebook Science project

Posted on October 31, 2008 by

Traditionally the day-to-day activities of academic research has been a closed endeavor where research note books are usually only available to people in the lab. Open Notebook Science (ONS), in contrast, represents a revolutionary concept going against the grain of … Continue reading →

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Intelligently unintelligent at SciFoo 2008

Posted on August 15, 2008 by

Many consider Science Foo Camp to be a gathering of the biggest, most brilliant, and influential minds of our age. As far as this might be true, my overwhelming feeling was one of oxymoronically intelligent unintelligence, in a very enjoyable … Continue reading →

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SciFoo 2008 tag cloud

Posted on August 14, 2008 by

A lot has been said about SciFoo 2008, before it even took place, during the event, and after it wrapped up. Using Wordle I have created a tag cloud of a subset of blog posts posted during the meeting. For … Continue reading →

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Distributed Open Notebook Science

Posted on August 12, 2008 by

One of the interesting concept that emerged during SciFoo, i.e. one that I actually was able to comprehend (sorry, Garrett, your 2 dimensional projection of the 7 dimensional particle space didn’t  not manage to penetrate my skull, but the pictures … Continue reading →

Posted in Git, Linus Torvalds, Open Notebook science, Science Foo | 2 Comments

A virus walks into a bar

Posted on August 11, 2008 by

Brian Malow, science comedian and writer of the Zero Gravity science blog, was at SciFoo. As much as I enjoyed all the other sessions given by the biggest and most influential brains, this was the only session that almost made … Continue reading →

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SciFoo 2008 snapshots

Posted on August 10, 2008 by

    This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog ( http://pineda-krch.com ) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of California, Davis.

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SciFoo day 2

Posted on August 10, 2008 by

djembe jam – watchful eyes – Sergey – venture-backed tech startups – esoteric academic track – Second Life – pink hair – bubble – toddler art – pretty politically incorrect – late night domain name purchasing spree – on my … Continue reading →

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SciFoo day 1 (Part III)

Posted on August 10, 2008 by

really really fast electric cars – Web 2.0 – Nature Precedings – Testing on the Toilet – 8000+ Googler campus -extraterrestrial – the Moon – 23andMe – Mars -massively multiplayer science – brain enhancements – cosmology – robotics – solar … Continue reading →

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SciFoo day 1 (Part II)

Posted on August 9, 2008 by

schwag overload – 5 min break – BHL – colorful balloons – Craig Venter is not a scientist – Craig Venter is a scientist – Craig Venter is a proto-scientist – no Eisen in sight – ping flamingos – uber-bloggers … Continue reading →

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SciFoo day 1

Posted on August 9, 2008 by

metagenomics sequence analysis – transparent surveillance of infectious diseases -non-disclosure agreement – haiku – Open Source – data mining – bio-error – poor countries – genomics – stewardship – cooperating robots – living in a petri dish – guitars – … Continue reading →

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SciFoo day 0

Posted on August 9, 2008 by

The drawback of spending a weekend at SciFoo is that one simply does not have time to do blogging. Clearly, one can only live blog a meeting if you don’t have enough interesting people to talk to so, by corollary, … Continue reading →

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In transit to SciFoo 2008

Posted on August 8, 2008 by

The days has come – SciFoo 2008 is about to commence. I am leaving Davis today, traveling to Mountain View with a minimal carbon foot print a la Eisen, and then hop on a bus to the hotel. I am … Continue reading →

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SciFoo 2008 – here I come!

Posted on April 30, 2008 by

Got an email the other day from Tim O’Reilly, Chris DiBona, and Timo Hannay inviting me to this years Science Foo Camp, or as they say: We’d like to invite you to join us on the weekend of August 8-10 … Continue reading →

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Live bloggery from SciFoo 2007

Posted on August 4, 2007 by

This morning I share the lamentations of Pedro Beltrão of Public Rambling – SciFoo has started and I am no there! Ofcourse, since the cream of the scientific blogging community did get invited there is (as can be expected) plenty … Continue reading →

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Open-Source Science

Posted on July 10, 2007 by

This is not exactly new but it is still highly relevant. In the July 24, 2006 issue of the Chemical & Engineering News there is a story about a Open-Source Science project operating in true bazaar mode. The project, called … Continue reading →

Posted in academia, epidemiology, open science, science, Science Foo | 5 Comments

Interview with Timo Hannay of Nature Publishing Group

Posted on July 4, 2007 by

John Dupuis of the Confessions of a Science Librarian has posted an interview with the Head of Web Publishing at Nature Publishing Group, Timo Hannay. It’s a long and frank interview where Timo discusses everything from his background in neurophysiology, … Continue reading →

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