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The tumbleweed Martian rover - Just when you thought Mars rovers couldn’t get any cooler, here comes the ‘tumbleweed rover’. As the name implies, this is a rover that would travel acro...
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Sixty years of ‘nitwittedness’ - If 1952 marked the first year of the Queen’s reign it can also be said to be the year of the moonwalk, the P45 and Generation X. The Oxford English Diction...3 hours ago
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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #199 - This week's episode is varied as it is released during a holiday weekend in the United States. Direct Download: Ogg Vorbis Audio Related links: Botherso...8 hours ago
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Question 17 of my final exam for Design and Analysis of Sample Surveys - 17. In a survey of n people, half are asked if they support “the health care law recently passed by Congress” and half are asked if they support “the law k...15 hours ago
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A thought about predictability of user requests - I am not by any stretch a customer service guru or expert, but one thing I noticed about libraries is that user needs tend to come in cycles and often can ...17 hours ago
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TADL at the Traverse Airport - TADL at the Traverse Airport, a photo by mstephens7 on Flickr.17 hours ago
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verifying results - Lisa Wade recently made me aware that a group of psychologists have decided to try and verify the results of every article written in three journals in 200...18 hours ago
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Heng Sovannarith joined Sahar Majid's group - Heng Sovannarith joined Sahar Majid's group [image: Thumbnail] Training opportunities for journalists A page to post journalist training programmes that may ...19 hours ago
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a few unrelated talks & travel - The interesting thing, to me about being known as an “influential librarian” is that sometimes when life gets busy people still know you as a blogger even ...1 day ago
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Western Nebraska Community College chooses LibLime Koha - (May 25, 2012). LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Western Nebraska Community College has chosen LibLime Koha as their next generation ILS to repl...2 days ago
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Frequently have hoof in mouth - don't need yours - I too often get in trouble because - depending upon who you talk to - I'm "professional and direct" or "brusque and blunt". So I really don't need you pu...2 days ago
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Copyright 2.0 Show – Episode 239 – Fried Macbooks - SCOTUS declines Tenenbaum appeal, Gucci beats Guess, Oracle and Google settle one issue, Aereo wins partial victory and much more!2 days ago
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Twitter for Big Pharma: best practices - Source: McCasland, Carla. Best Practices for Twitter for Healthcare and Pharma Professionals. May 2012, Presentation, available from: http://www.slideshare...2 days ago
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Technology–Enforced Law - I’ve been puzzling over a phenomenon lately that I’d like to talk a bit about. I want to put this out into the ether and get feedback from all of you. Be...3 days ago
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Perceptions of Alzheimer’s – #accessibility #a11y - At 04:48 on Wednesday 25th April 2012 my Mum died of Alzheimer’s. She’d had the illness for four years and over the last three to four months been in and o...5 days ago
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Support free access to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. #OAMonday - At Mendeley, we believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and education. We have worked with colleagues in the library, publishi...6 days ago
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Sign the petition to require open access to US taxpayer-funded research - Today is #OAMonday. It marks the launch of a petition on the Whitehouse web site to "Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles...6 days ago
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So.cl - Microsoft's new social network! - via www.so.cl Well, just when you think the world of social networks cannot get any more insane, along comes Microsoft with a new one. I really do need to ha...6 days ago
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My journey towards bicycling zen (or, "How I am overcoming my fear of riding on the roads") - I've been hitting the roads and Park Connectors on a foldable bike the past four Sundays, thanks to the cycling friends at ZenDogs 2.0. My initiation ride ...1 week ago
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Setting priorities - In academic libraries, there are usually so many levels of priorities. There are the priorities of the university. There are the priorities of the library....1 week ago
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Example Reproducible Report using R Markdown: Analysis of California Schools Test Data - This is a quick set of analyses of the California Test Score dataset. The post was produced using R Markdown in RStudio 0.96. The main purpose of this po...1 week ago
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Enjoy the vacation – we’re still open! - The Library staff hope you enjoy the Summer Vacation. We’ll be open on our Summer Vacation schedule from Saturday 19 May – Sunday 9 September. The Edinburg...1 week ago
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The Scatter of Medical Research and What to do About it. - Paul Glasziou, GP and professor in Evidence Based Medicine, co-authored a new article in the BMJ [1]. Similar to another paper [2] I discussed before [3] t...1 week ago
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Stepping Outside My Open-Source Comfort Zone: A First Look at Golden Helix SVS - I'm a huge supporter of the Free and Open Source Software movement. I've written more about R than anything else on this blog, all the code I post here is ...
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Content curation is the new black - Content curation crops up over and over again – so a whole issue on the topic from the wonderful school librarians in New Zealand is worth a read! Tossing ...1 week ago
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DIY infographics - So who made it Create Your Own Infographics week and didn’t tell me? Well, there might not be any reason … Continue reading »1 week ago
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Project Compass National Convening offers opportunity for library staff to share best practices - Library staff members representing 45 states and the District of Columbia met in Washington, D.C., April 25–26, for the Project Compass National Convening,...1 week ago
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TU Dresden verabschiedet Open-Access-Resolution - Das Rektorat und der Senat der TU Dresden haben kürzlich eine Open-Access-Resolution im Geiste der...2 weeks ago
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From sketch to graphic - I just ran across chartsnthings (h/t to Gelman). Kevin Quealy at the New York Times graphics department shows the progression from initial sketch to final gr...2 weeks ago
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Les enjeux européens de la numérisation de l’écrit - Une excellente synthèse commandée par l’assemblée nationale.2 weeks ago
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Moving! - I've moved to the SciAm network (yes!) where I'll be blogging in the Information Culture blog, together with excellent blogger Bonnie Swoger. As you can im...2 weeks ago
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A new venture: the Scientific American Blog Information Culture - Some readers of this blog may be interested in a new blog I will be co-authoring on the Scientific American Blog Network called Information Culture. I wil...2 weeks ago
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Le marché du mardi, n°46 - Vite fait, parce que c’est la saison des grands ménages mais aussi les vacances , un sélection d’outils open : - Annotum est une extension de Worpress qui ...4 weeks ago
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A Paleontology-Specific Impact Factor for PLoS ONE - The threads at SV-POW! are hopping right now, particularly with one commenting on open access in *Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology*. One question that ca...4 weeks ago
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How to make your journal OpenAIRE compliant: online workshop - From the OpenAIRE team: *Register for a free online workshop on Monday, 7 May 2012, 11:00 - 12:00 CET or Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 14:00 - 15:00 CET* Are you...4 weeks ago
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The Most Beautiful Thing - References for Happy No. 1 You have replaced my jade amulet with your dark eyes and open arms. You smell of primeval forests but are made of flesh, not woo...4 weeks ago
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Is Open Data all its cracked up to be? - Last Tuesday (27 March 2012) I was doing a presentation on open data at an Inside Government seminar on Information Governance. This is very much a topic...1 month ago
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Retailer – Real Basket Value in Retailing - Extreme couponing is not only one of these weird shows on TLC, it’s also more and more a way of living for many households. Since January is generally one ...4 months ago
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Crowdsourcing RA | Social Mediator - Would you recommend The Brothers Karamazov? How about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? The “Twilight” series? Love them or hate them, you’re not alone. The...5 months ago
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Le sport à Paris - Il y a beaucoup de sportifs à Paris. Le dimanche, le jardin du Luxembourg est bondé de joggeurs. De tous styles. La dernière fois que j'y ai couru, j'ai ...
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Analyse des réseaux : une introduction à Pajek - L’analyse des réseaux sociaux, longtemps réservée à quelques happy few en raison à la fois de la difficulté à constituer des corpus de données, et de la ...11 months ago
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Library-related Kindle Screensavers - Note: Be sure to read Frank Skornia’s comment below about the consequences of jailbreaking your Kindle. I finally took some time to personalize the screens...1 year ago
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Mini-Reviews, Long Noncoding RNA, and the Bread Used in Sandwiches: Why None of These Should Be Taken for Granted - At its simplest, bread hold the sandwich together by providing something sturdy on which the generally wetter and more softly textured fillings can be contai...1 year ago
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Our final post… - After 3 1/2 years and over 1700 posts, we’ve decided it’s time to say farewell to Beyond the Job. We’ve both moved on to other projects, which leaves us ...1 year ago
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Parametric Bootstrap Power Analysis of GISS Temp Data - Previosly, I calculated a bunch of ad-hoc power curves from GISTEMP data. Power is essentially a reframing of the p-value, to see the significance of the t...1 year ago
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Bye-Bye Nature Network - This is my last post for this Nature Network blog. Later today, I will start a new blog somewhere else - also called Gobbledygook and covering the same topic...1 year ago
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We're moving! - Looking for us? We're happy to say that we're part of the new Scientopia blogging collective. Come see us there!1 year ago
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Yeah, me too. - I'm also leaving ScienceBlogs, but it's not for the reasons some others have given. I don't think Pepsi's blog will hurt my real life reputation and besi...1 year ago
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Library and Information Science Trends and Research: - *CALL FOR CHAPTERS* Library and Information Science Trends and Research: Asia-Oceania Region Publisher: Emerald Library and Information Science Book Seri...1 year ago
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Bye - I realize that I haven't been posting much here. We had some plans to use the Applied Statistics blog for other purposes but it didn't really work out, s...1 year ago
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Morristown, NJ, Library Recovering from Explosion, but Still Closed - Utility explosion caused millions of dollars in damage.2 years ago
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Fini - Due to my changing job responsibilities and numerous serious personal issues (I’ve been out of work for a month on medical leave) this blog has run its cou...2 years ago
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Sanatorium - Si vous êtez cloué au lit pour plusieurs semaines dans un sanatorium… ou si vous êtes sur le chômage… ou si vous êtes barge et n’avez rien à foutre (au lie...2 years ago
