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What a weekend, the show lived up to the hype. And some hype it was, summed up nicely by Adrian Ebsary: http://storify.com/ajebsary/science-online-2011-conference The talks were varied and the speakers were all genuinely enthusiastic about what they were talking about. You just dont get that at normal conferences. Just like you dont generate this…[Read more]

After a delayed start to the day (Due to sleeping through my alarm clock (Due to a bit too much hospitality from Kevin Zelnio, Arikia and the rest of the afterparty gang)). This led to a lack of a computer charger and resultant lack of updating the S3.0 folk. This will not be the case tomorrow! [...]

So I’m here at #scio11 checking in with a first update! After flying in with the English set, Ed Yong, Alok Jha, Alice Bell, Richard Grant, Jenny Rohn and Viv Raper, seen here at Heathrow: Keynote last night was Robert Krulwich from Radiolab made all the more entertaining by the 8.2% beer to accompany the talk: The [...]

By Daniel Mietchen . Originally published at Research Cycle Research on Science 3.0

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… it’s hard to plan for problems when our eyes are on Heaven – that place where, finally, all our problems are solved and we live happily ever after. It’s a fantasy…

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Post by Sandy Gautam . Originally Published on Science 3.0 here . Re-published with authors permission. This week is the open access week and people from all walks of life have commented on why open access is important and how it has touched upon their lives in a meaningful way. I can wax eloquent about the need of open access as [...]

By Sarah Kendrew . Originally posted at ‘ One Small Step ‘. Posted with Author’s Permission. I’ve been giving some thought to software development in astronomy, which is a difficult topic. All astronomers agree that good data processing, and hence good software, is crucial to doing rigorous science. To interpret observational data, to translate…[Read more]

By Sarah Kendrew . Originally posted at ‘ The Lay Scientist ‘. Posted with Author’s Permission. The Guardian published a story earlier this week about a Belfast climate scientist Prof Mike Baillie, who is disgruntled at having to make his department’s decades’ worth of tree ring data available to a known climate sceptic as a result of a Freedom…[Read more]