As Labrigger mentioned earlier this week, ZappyLab is running a Kickstarter campaign to jump start their crowd-sourced protocol repository, Protocols.io.
Perhaps the most attractive reward they’re offering for pledging are the Black Russian Espresso…
authors must make all data publicly available, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article
Examples could include spreadsheets of original measurements (of cells, of fluorescent intensity, of respiratory volume), large datasets such as next-generation sequence reads, verbatim…
Nature Methods has a special on box plots, and in particular, the web app BoxPlotR.
Box plots are great. However, the conventions for box plots are not completely uniform (see below), and that can lead…
Please enjoy this story from Mistress of the Animals about how her old mentor would keep all of his reviews– in the days of typewriters– and then compare new reviews to his old…
Infographic by Thomas Porostocky for WIRED.
Of course Labrigger emphatically supports the work of the Gates Foundation. However, we have to disagree with Bill Gates’ choice for Graph of the Year. Topic,…
PubMed has a new feature: you can comment on the papers using PubMed Commons.
PubPeer, the now-defunct Third Reviewer, reference managers, and journals have offered post-publication peer review for a while now. And…
Someone recently asked me, “What’s a good way I can share my code?”
There are several ways you can go, of course. Here are the first two that popped into my mind.
A full web site
Squarespace isn’t a bad…
You don’t have to be an APBRmetrician to appreciate the graphics Kirk Goldsberry puts together from his analysis. They’re clear, the data-to-ink ratio is high, and there are appropriate annotations to…
Undocumented MATLAB has an in depth look at the next generation graphics handler for MATLAB which you can use today, although it’s not officially released yet. Use the command line option “-hgVersion 2” when launching…
Here’s a follow up on the previous post about alternatives to Google Reader (which is being shut down).
Patrick Mineault commented that Feedly is looking good. I agree. Basic functionality is smooth and somewhat intuitive;…
Google Reader is going to be shut down on July 1.
If you use Reader, here’s what to do:
Step 1: Export all of your subscriptions from Google Reader
(takes less than 1 minute)
You can now post comments on PubPeer completely anonymously. Not even a login is required.
PubPeer has always allowed anonymous comments, but it used to be that you had to log in, so the admins know…
PubPeer, a site for anonymous (or non-anonymous), post-publication peer review is taking off nicely. Traffic is increasing to the site and there are a lot of interesting comments, including both detailed commentary and …
