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  • yet another #solo12 recap (part 1)

    So there’s been a few already: SpotOn day 1 & SpotOn day 2 being the best I’ve read, from Ian Mulvany see also: SpotOn London – a global conference by Jon Tennant | #solo12 reflection by A J Cann | SpotOn London 2012 in brief by Charis Cook | Altmetric @ SpotOn London 2012 by Jean Liu, and more… but since…

  • A visit to the BioMedCentral offices

    tweets for embedding in a soon to be published blog post

  • Revaluing Science in the Digital Age

    Invite-only workshop 2-4th September held at Chicheley Hall: Home of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre.

  • Beware when using Thompson Reuters Web of Knowledge

    just a quick post… I’m pretty shocked at the poor indexing service given by Thompson Reuters Web of Knowledge (or ISI Web of Science as you might know it). I’ve unashamedly bashed them before and I’ll bash them again here. (They deserve criticism because they’re paid a lot of money to do this as a…

  • Content mining for phylogenetic data

    I realise thus far, I may not have explained too clearly exactly what I’m doing for my Panton fellowship. With this post I shall attempt to remedy this and shed a little more light on what I’ve been doing lately. The main thrust of my fellowship is to extract phylogenetic tree data from the literature…

  • Nearly a month later my local MP responds…

    After sending a letter to my local MP, urging him to support the recommendations of the Hargreaves Report on Intellectual Property reform in parliament nearly a month ago (sent on the 17th June 2012) – I finally have a reply! Sadly, it’s not the reply I wanted. Don Foster does not appear willing to support…