After last week’s Article Level Metrics workshop, PLOS hosted a “data challenge” in their San Francisco offices. With datasets from PLOS, CrossRef, ImpactStory, Mendeley and Altmetrics, attendees got a few …
Last year I was invited to visit my old graduate department at the University of Toronto to speak on a panel about science careers. The panel was part of a …
I received a few of these emails, from scholars’ press and others, offering me a chance to publish my thesis (which anyone can find online for free in its entirety, if …
It’s ten years since SARS, and last week I shared some SARS memories on stage at Litmus Test, as part of their “Health & Safety” theme. Here is the story …
I love non-fiction writing, but I’m really terrible at pitching my ideas. That’s unfortunate, because non-fiction stands and falls with a good pitch. I just can’t sell myself. To illustrate …
PeerJ launched today (congrats!) and one of their very first published papers is about the science of magic! “Perceptual elements in Penn & Teller’s “Cups and Balls” magic trick” studies …
