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PubPeer is taking off
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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 …
Death of the impact factor
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There will probably always be a need for metrics like impact factor so that non-experts can estimate the significance of a scientist’s publications. These metrics are problematic, as we all know.
Interestingly, the relationship between…
figshare is taking off
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Figshare is an online database for storing figures, data, and papers. It’s been around for a while, but recently its really been taking off.
–You can post images, or entire paper PDFs. Also datasets.
–It’s…
Post publication peer review
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Post publication peer review has yet to really take off, but Labrigger hopes it does. One of the newest sites is PubPeer.
PubPeer does it right, allowing for anonymity. This is important in order…
Troubleshooting noise
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“Okay. I think I’ve got a lead on the noise we’ve been troubleshooting. The noise is coming from a broadcast RF source between 2200 and 2500 MHz. Let’s check with the FCC and see what is allocated to that spectrum to get an idea of where this interference could be coming from.”
Keeping up with the literature
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Oldest Reading hard copy tables of content. Pleasent, but impractical.
Older Checking out the updates for Index Medicus. Totally reasonable. In 1988.
Old Getting eTOCs emailed to you. Welcome to the…
SfN Resources for Teaching
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The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) have compiled and are curating a large collection of online resources for neuroscience teaching. It’s called ERIN (Educational Resources in Neuroscience).
Some examples:
A Nernst-Goldman equation simulator. (link)
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Microbehunter
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Oliver Kim puts out a nice magazine called Microbehunter. It’s a great resource for microscope nerds. I’ve listed a few blog articles below, but actually, the full PDF issues are where most of…
Numberfactory: extremely useful reference
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Numberfactory is a very useful, clean reference site. Unit conversions, formulas, bolts, nuts, screws, and more.
More…
Bolt sizes
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Wire gauge frequency ratings
As previously noted, homemade cables are to be avoided. However, stock cables are not always up to spec. For example, if one wants to drive stepper motors using a…
Software for visual psychophysics
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This site has a nice big list of software for visual psychophysics. It’s very extensive and includes free as well as commercial solutions: visual stimuli, analysis, teaching, hardware, and more.
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More MATLAB learning
On the topic of MATLAB learning materials (covered previously here and lots more MATLAB stuff here), MIT has some online courses freely available. Here’s an “aggressively gentle” intro to MATLAB,…
Books online for free from the NIH
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Within the PubMed architecture, there are a lot of resources, visible on the pulldown list next to the search field. If you browse down a bit, you’ll see “Books”. (direct link)
These…
OpenOptogenetics
When Karl Deisseroth started publishing his work on Channelrhodopsin-2, he set up a website to share the resources, including plasmid information, protocols for expression systems, and hardware details. His site, optogenetics.org, is…
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