Nobel blogging?
Last night we had the first in a series of Nature Network Berlin dinners scheduled around the International Congress of Genetics. It was a very entertaining evening, not least because of our special guests Oliver Smithies,...
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I will participate in the Elsevier Article 2.0 Contest
We have been talking a lot about Web 2.0 approaches for scientific papers. Now Elsevier announced an Article 2.0 Contest: Demonstrate your best ideas for how scientific research articles should be presented on the...
Online reference managers: not quite there yet
For my Paper Writing Dream Machine I obviously need a reference manager. My list of required features includes: * Easy addition of references by integration with Pubmed, Google Scholar and other online databases. A special bookmarklet would...
My Paper Writing Dream Machine 1.0
I’ve written a similar post before, put I would like to talk about some of the features that I would like to see in an ideal paper writing application. Intelligent Formatting Content and formatting should...
I like poster sessions
As I said before on this blog, I do like poster sessions. The poster sessions at the just finished American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting didn't offer food and drink, but were otherwise very...
How technology can help you to survive a meeting
I'm currently in Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). This is a large meeting on clinical cancer research with about 30.000 people attending. Rather than writing...