Publish your GreaseMonkey scripts
I knew it was possible to use GreaseMonkey scripts to change webpages to better suit our needs. I tried it once to get blog comments about scientific papers to show up in journal websites. Pierre and Stew have been creating several interesting scripts for postgenomic and connotea. What I did not know was that one could actually publish these scripts. I am all for publishing of smaller and finner grained scientific content but I have to say that this paper seemed like little more than a big blog post. Should we try to publish this type of work ?
Anyway :) ho ho ho , merry xmas everyone
Friday, December 22, 2006
PLoS One is up and running
I will add this blog's "voice" to the many that have already announced the start of PLoS One. This journal is a very much needed experiment in science communication online. It is being built from scratch to take advantage of the internet as the medium unlike many other journals. As Deepak mentioned in his blog, the success of One will depend mostly on us, the users, in our interest to participate with our own insight. The PLoS One team will have to worry about creating interesting reward systems around the journal to help boost participation.
I have only played around on the site for a short while but there are a couple of features that I hope that will implement in the short term.
- One that I was hoping to find at start was some form of gateways or portals for areas. The only subject navigation available seams to be the links on the right side.
- I also did not find any kind of rating system. To boost participation I think people have to start trying out simple participation systems and rating is the easiest one.
- I guess it would also be nice to have some kind of track back system or some other way to let comments come in from blog post. This would be nice for bloggers but i have to admit that few people would care :) .
There were two papers (from the same group) that caught my attention but I did not have time to read them:
Control of Canalization and Evolvability by Hsp90
Modularity and Intrinsic Evolvability of Hsp90-Buffered Change
I will add this blog's "voice" to the many that have already announced the start of PLoS One. This journal is a very much needed experiment in science communication online. It is being built from scratch to take advantage of the internet as the medium unlike many other journals. As Deepak mentioned in his blog, the success of One will depend mostly on us, the users, in our interest to participate with our own insight. The PLoS One team will have to worry about creating interesting reward systems around the journal to help boost participation.
I have only played around on the site for a short while but there are a couple of features that I hope that will implement in the short term.
- One that I was hoping to find at start was some form of gateways or portals for areas. The only subject navigation available seams to be the links on the right side.
- I also did not find any kind of rating system. To boost participation I think people have to start trying out simple participation systems and rating is the easiest one.
- I guess it would also be nice to have some kind of track back system or some other way to let comments come in from blog post. This would be nice for bloggers but i have to admit that few people would care :) .
There were two papers (from the same group) that caught my attention but I did not have time to read them:
Control of Canalization and Evolvability by Hsp90
Modularity and Intrinsic Evolvability of Hsp90-Buffered Change
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Second (hellish) Life
I had a walk around Second Nature inside Second Life. I had tried SL before some months ago and this time the experience was much worse. My avatar keeps freezing when I touch objects or when I stand around idle for some time. Some other times the avatar just freezes in flight and continues in the same direction until I quit. It was just unusable.
Here is a picture from an 3D cell in the Second Nature island.
A feeble attempt to build something for the EMBL online symposium
I had a walk around Second Nature inside Second Life. I had tried SL before some months ago and this time the experience was much worse. My avatar keeps freezing when I touch objects or when I stand around idle for some time. Some other times the avatar just freezes in flight and continues in the same direction until I quit. It was just unusable.
Here is a picture from an 3D cell in the Second Nature island.
A feeble attempt to build something for the EMBL online symposium
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Monday, December 04, 2006
Modularity and Evolvability
The First Online EMBL PhD Symposium as started today with several media files available for viewing and commenting. There is an IRC channel open for discussion.
Participants can comment or add their own content to the site. I have put up a small presentation relating modularity and evolvability in proteins, language, software and the scientific process. I am no expert in any of these fields so view these analogies with a very critical eye :).
Full screen view can be access from the slideshare site
The First Online EMBL PhD Symposium as started today with several media files available for viewing and commenting. There is an IRC channel open for discussion.
Participants can comment or add their own content to the site. I have put up a small presentation relating modularity and evolvability in proteins, language, software and the scientific process. I am no expert in any of these fields so view these analogies with a very critical eye :).
Full screen view can be access from the slideshare site
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Saturday, December 02, 2006
The 6th edition of Bio::Blogs is up in Nodalpoint. Many thanks to Greg for setting it up. This edition marks half a year of Bio::Blogs and it is dedicated to conference blogging, probably one of the best examples of the usefulness of science blogging.
The 7th edition will probably be scheduled to February to skip the holiday season and Paras Chopra has volunteered to host it.
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