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Title:Vote for "Method of the Year"
Summary:Last year, the editors of Nature Methods chose a “Method of the Year” (MOY) and the winner was next ... (12/11/2008 11:45:43 PM)
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Vote for "Method of the Year" 133 days ago Read More http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nn/rss/action_potential_with_comments/~3/478707467/vote_for_method_of_the_year.html
Last year, the editors of Nature Methods chose a “Method of the Year” (MOY) and the winner was next generation sequencing. This feature included an editorial, commentaries, news features and other ...
Moving to Nature Network 134 days ago Read More http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nn/rss/action_potential_with_comments/~3/478707468/moving_to_nature_network.html
Another blogging hiatus on the old "Action Potential" blog. Sorry about that. However, the news is now that I have become a neuroscience editor for Nature, I will be taking my show on the road to a...
Comment 1 (Moving to Nature Network) 75 days ago Read More http://blogs.nature.com/nn/actionpotential/2008/08/moving_to_nature_network.html#95793
I hope it will be good for you.
Comment 1 (The business of universities) 177 days ago Read More http://blogs.nature.com/nn/actionpotential/2008/07/the_business_of_universities.html#94239
Dumbing down is a problem alright, and I don't think it's necessarily going to go away anytime soon.
I recently attended a lecture by a faculty member at my institution as part of a series of semin...
Comment 1 (Getting into and out of character) 178 days ago Read More http://blogs.nature.com/nn/actionpotential/2008/07/getting_out_character.html#94225
Why is it that I always wonder if the writer has ever been in a faculty meeting, fervent conference session or, heck, your average dorm room bull session when I see something like this? Vitriol is,...
Comment 2 (Getting into and out of character) 177 days ago Read More http://blogs.nature.com/nn/actionpotential/2008/07/getting_out_character.html#94230
Although Mr. Butler's discussion of PLoS did indeed initiate many of these tangential conversations regarding the culture and atmosphere of blog communities, I was attempting to speak more generall...
Comment 1 (The science of dignity) 199 days ago Read More http://blogs.nature.com/nn/actionpotential/2008/06/the_science_of_dignity_1.html#93891
I don't understand--they weren't doing genetic work with the monkeys, so how does the Gene Technology article apply?
Comment 2 (The science of dignity) 199 days ago Read More http://blogs.nature.com/nn/actionpotential/2008/06/the_science_of_dignity_1.html#93892
Hi Lizzie. The Swiss crammed a distinct line within that article that is relevant from the court's perspective (at least in my interpretation of the situation):
"It takes thereby into account the d...
Comment 1 (Turning web traffic into citations) 225 days ago Read More http://blogs.nature.com/nn/actionpotential/2008/05/downloads_vs_citations.html#93459
I have two questions:
1. What were the citation counts for papers that were not downloaded? You should plot them for comparison.
2. What were the slopes of the regression lines on the log-log plots...
Comment 2 (Turning web traffic into citations) 225 days ago Read More http://blogs.nature.com/nn/actionpotential/2008/05/downloads_vs_citations.html#93463
These are very interesting results and really more should be done to emphasize that impact factor of the journals were papers are published is not a very good measure to evaluate individual researc...
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