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Some bits from others

Similar to the last post, here are some more choice bits from other people:

New vocab

Helpful Vocabulary for Journal Reviewers

The post offers some new words…



Pubmed limbo

In my experience, PubMed works beautifully the vast majority of the time. It does an excellent job parsing search terms and they’re always adding new features (e.g., you can search using full names now,…



Watts per photon

Fun conversion of the day: photon count to watts. This is high school physics, but it’s a good reminder of…



Shot noise-limited imaging

What is the advantage of imaging fast in population calcium imaging? Here’s a quick qualitative comparison. The prep was mouse visual…



NIH grants: Score correlations

NIH grants are scored on five dimensions:
1. Significance
2. Investigator
3. Innovation
4. Approach
5. Environment
(link)

What are the correlations between these different dimensions and ultimate grant funding success?
Here’s a table of all the NIH institutions, and the correlation coefficients for these scoring dimensions and ultimate funding success.



Citizen science article in NN

Nature Neuroscience has a great article on citizen science in the September issue (link, subscription required).

In the article, they discuss that although the public already recognizes the value of publicly funded research,…



DIY open access

Even if you publish in a “closed” journal, you are typically allowed to post the PDF of your article on your…



Open Science Summit videos

There are videos from the talks at the Open Science Summit online now. The topics include the OpenPCR and Otyp projects, open source drug discovery,…



Open science

“Open” is a nice sounding word, not unlike “free”, that is used rather liberally whenever some bit of intellectual property is shared with the public. However, it can mean very different things…



Crowdsourcing your work

Ebird is a website where bird watchers (or “birders”, in the parlance of the field) upload their observations. This project, by Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, has been…