Conferences are about the rapid dissemination of new science to specialists in the same field. We should treat conference talks as we treat preprints, as a deliberate science dissemination process, and make video recording and proper archiving ubiquitous. Speaker-led demand Recording already happens of course, at some conferences, in a rough and ready way. My…
Tag: Open Science
What are the frontiers in Open Science?
Many seem to misconstrue what ‘the frontier’ means in science, imagining a hard intellectual boundary, everything past which is unknown. I want to use a geographic frontier analogy that distinguishes the very limit (boundary) of human exploration (knowledge) from the area approaching that boundary. Frontier can mean both, but here I’m going to use it…
Reproducible research in phylogenetics
I’ve been reading a lot recently about reproducible research (RR) in bioinformatics on several blogs, and Google+ and Twitter. The idea is that it is important that someone is easily able to reproduce* your results (and even figures) from your publication using your provided code and data. I’ve been thinking that this is a movement…
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