why i blog instead of writing papers
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Keynote given at PopGroup 46 meeting in Glasgow, 21 December 2012TRANSCRIPT
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Why I blog instead of writing papers
@rdmpage
http://iphylo.blogspot.com
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Blogging
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Blogging
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Why blog?
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Rants, raves (and occasionally considered opinions) on phyloinformatics, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics. For more ranty and less considered opinions, see my Twitter feed.
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What sort of things do I blog about?
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Rants
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Reviews
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Experiments
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Grant proposals
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NERC said NO
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Analyses
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Dark taxa
http://iphylo.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/dark-taxa-genbank-in-post-taxonomic.html
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Mammals in GenBank
Proper Linnaean names
Aus sp.
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Mammals
Proper Linnaean names
Aus sp.
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“Invertebrates”
BOLD
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Is this a problem?
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It’s the norm for Bacteria
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Why blog?
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Déjà vu
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@cboettig
http://www.carlboettiger.info/2012/09/28/Welcome-to-my-lab-notebook.html
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Immediate feedback
(great if you are a shy attention seeker)
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Blogs can lead to conversations
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“Dark taxa” conversation 68 comments
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Isn’t it vanity publishing?
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Of course it is!
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Isn’t any publishing?
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Is your blog any good?
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Does it get cited?
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Citations to “dark taxa” blog post
An update on DNA barcoding: low species coverage and numerous unidentified sequenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00408.x
No name, no game http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.10
Ramping up biodiversity discovery via online quantum contributions http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2011.10.010
Applications of Natural Language Processing in Biodiversity Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/391574
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https://twitter.com/dpsspiders/status/281094052072542208
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What do I want for Christmas?
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DOIs for my blog posts
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What about peer review?
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Watson and Crick 1953
Not peer reviewed
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Peer review as filter
Physical and/or economic limits on how big a journal can be
Accept for publication
Submitted for publication
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Filter, then publish
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Peer review as filter
Physical and/or economic limits on how big a journal can be
Accept for publication
Submitted for publication
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…publish, then filter
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Attention filter
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Peer-review doesn’t guarantee science is correct
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NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2 [2010], to discuss an
astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus
Wolfe-Simon et al. 2010Science
doi:10.1126/science.1197258
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@RosieRedfield
(University of British Columbia)
Lots of flim-flam, but very little reliable information … If this data was presented by a PhD student at their committee meeting, I'd send them back to the bench to do more cleanup and controls.
http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html
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https://twitter.com/ironlisa/statuses/11579028288839680
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NASA DID NOT HYPE anything – others did. Credible media organizations have not questioned NASA about any text. Bloggers and social media have.
NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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Absence of Detectable Arsenate in DNA from Arsenate-Grown GFAJ-1 Cells
Reaves et al. July 2012
Sciencedoi:10.1126/science.1219861
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Rebuttal in peer-reviewed literature
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but released as preprint…
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arXiv:1201.6643
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…and initial concerns raised on blog
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What’s next?
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Science as a process will be open
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figshare.com
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http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.92668
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Everything of interest will be citable(papers, data, figures, blogs)
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http://www.altmetric.com/
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http://impactstory.org/
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… and that is why I blog instead of writing papers