Monthly archives: May, 2013

A clinic in figure design

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 help…



The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

“The Journal Impact Factor, as calculated by Thomson Reuters, was originally created as a tool to help librarians identify journals to purchase, not as a measure of the scientific quality of research in an article.”

Signed



PubPeer catches image reuse in Cell paper

PubPeer (highlighted previously



Cheap DIY Kwik-Cast

I find WPI’s Kwik-Cast handy for some things around the lab. When we were modest users, the price didn’t bother me too much. However, when we started going through so much of it, I wondered if…



Beaker genie

source: C&H



HG2 for Better Graphics in MATLAB

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…



hashtag NIHSequesterImpact



Feedly, to replace Google Reader

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;…



Scattering in tissue

Post by Jeffrey Stirman

The opacity of the brain is one barrier to optically imaging individual neurons and their connections. Scattering in tissue is the main reason tissue is not transparent; absorption also plays a role but…



Size comparison

Previously…
Sense of scale
R&D budgets in perspective



Google Reader is going away

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)

Try these directions.