Cancer and the media
Last Tuesday the Archives of Internal Medicine released a study that analyzed the news reporting about cancer in 8 large-...
Martin Fenner
Chances and problems of doing science online
Last month (shortly after ScienceOnline2010) David Crotty wrote in a blog post Science and Web 2.0: Talking About Science...
How do researchers use online journals?
Last Monday I was listening to a very interesting presentation by Ian Rowlands, reader in scholarly communication in the Department...
German Research Foundation says that numbers aren’t everything
Last Tuesday the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced changes to the grant application process, going in effect in July. Researchers...
There is still so much to learn in reference management
Last week Lambert Heller and myself did a two-day workshop Reference Management in Times of Web 2.0 for...
ScienceFeed: Interview with Ijad Madisch
Microblogging is blogging of short text messages, photos or other media and is best exemplified by Twitter. Twitter use has grown tremendously in 2009, and this also includes many scientists.1 FriendFeed is a another microblogging...