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In science, you make your mistakes in public. You show them off so that everybody can learn from them. This way, you get the benefit of everybody else’s experience, and not just your own idiosyncratic path through the space of mistakes.

— Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking (via paperbits)

3 days ago

May 20, 2013

science

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I work for “open” not because “open” solves a specific scientific problem, but because it increases the overall probability of success in sensorism-driven science. Even if the odds of success themselves don’t change, increasing the sample size of attempts will increase the net number of successes.

— del-fi: Solutionism and Sensorism (via nickgrossman)

2 months ago

March 22, 2013

science sensorism

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Amazing visualization of global “brain drain” in science, inspired by abstract art.

3 months ago

February 13, 2013

data visualization brain drain science

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The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell (Neuroskeptic)

in which a blogger publishes a journal article using his blog pseudonym for authorship

6 months ago

November 10, 2012

science blogging hell scientific hell

Global Diaspora, based on the recent GlobSci survey

via Nature

scientist migration patterns

7 months ago

October 18, 2012

science chart migration

slantback:

(via Twitter / DeepFriedDNA: Brilliant! More papers should …)

science!

7 months ago

October 10, 2012

panda science research

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Fifty Degrees North, Four Degrees West (Peter Larsen) - music from microbes where chords are mapped to environmental conditions and scale is mapped to microbial concentrations (from research in the western English Channel)

via Tooth and Claw

the same population would sound different in the key of sunlight than in the key of nitrogen