The Latest Articles on Next Generation Science


  • FriendFeed Science Focus: Week #09, 2010

    Saturday, March 06th, 2010

    I must be pinging the GEO database too much because I’m getting connection refused errors via BioPython’s Entrez parser. FF fee survey (http://friendfeed.com/the-life-scientists/18cd2460/in-wake-of-facebook-buyout-and-recent-outage) update. Thank you for subscribing by RSS or email. We [...]


  • FriendFeed Science Focus: Week #08, 2010

    Saturday, February 27th, 2010

    In the wake of the Facebook buyout and the recent outage and the Buzz debacle and so on, lots of folks are considering exit strategies. I’m wondering whether we could fund a user-owned version, probably based on Tornado. [...] [...]


  • The Panton Principles for Open Data in Science

    Friday, February 19th, 2010

    The Panton Principles for Open Data in Science and the Is It Open Data? web service launched today. From the Panton Principles preamble: Science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the published body of scientific knowledge. For science to [...] [...]


  • FriendFeed Science Focus: Week #07, 2010

    Thursday, February 18th, 2010

    Bioinformatics blog carnival – http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2010/02/18/bioinformatics-blog-carnival/ Friendfeed for Research? First impressions of ScienceFeed Thank you for subscribing by RSS or email. We work hard to make the articles on Next Generation Science engaging and we truly appr [...]


  • Science Spotlight: February 16th, 2010

    Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

    ScienceFeed: Interview with Ijad Madisch | Gobbledygook Martain Fenner Interviews Ijad Madisch, co-founder of the new microblogging service ScienceFeed, which is similar to FriendFeed but adds features specifically for scientists. Are Any Social Networks for Life Scientists Gaining Traction? & [...]


  • Free Access to the Cloud: A Step Backwards for Open Science

    Tuesday, February 09th, 2010

    This is a quote from a New York Times article late last week: The National Science Foundation and the Microsoft Corporation have agreed to offer American scientific researchers free access to the company’s new cloud computing service. A goal of the [...] [...]


  • FriendFeed Science Focus: Week #05, 2010

    Tuesday, February 02nd, 2010

    BioGPS: BioGPS is going social Thank you for subscribing by RSS or email. We work hard to make the articles on Next Generation Science engaging and we truly appreciate your interest and readership!This article was published on Next Generation Science. [...]


  • Discussing ScienceOnline2010: Four Questions

    Saturday, January 30th, 2010

    There has been a number of posts written about the ScienceOnline2010 conference. Rather than write another one simply about my personal experiences, I thought it would be interesting to have a discussion about the conference with a number of people [...] [...]