mhahnel
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- June 30, 2010 (16y ago)
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- Are Happy Developers More Productive? (figshare.com)
For decades now, it has been claimed that a way to improve software developers’ productivity is to focus on people. Indeed, while human factors have been recognized in Software Engineering research, few empirical…
- How Github can be friendlier with academia (blog.michelemattioni.me)
With the rising movement of openscience and reproducibility, the necessity for science to share their code and result is getting higher and higher.
- Peer review and the future of preprints (figshare.com)
- Towards smaller units of discourse (balapagos.posterous.com)
The "the unit of discourse" (UoD) point caught my attention because I've been thinking similarly for some time now. I think it will be fair to say that most experimentalists who have been working in a given area for a…
- Striving for greater efficiency in scientific research (blogs.bmj.com)
- Giving a fig for negative research? (web.vivavip.com)
Negative data has merits. Consider too the volume of unused data generated in research projects and its possible uses. The question has been where to put it and how can it be re-used?
- Get credit for all of your research (techcrunch.com)
One of the goals of figshare is to get researchers to share even negative results from their works, in order to reduce duplication of effort, as well as to encourage citations. Publicly available data leads to more…
- FigShare (figshare.com)
Scientific publishing as it stands is an inefficient way to do science on a global scale. A lot of time and money is being wasted by groups around the world duplicating research that has already been carried out.…