The NIH wants to hear your thoughts on how it should modify its biosketch requirements. Feedback due Friday JUNE 29th 2012, midnight EDT. The request for information is wide open, but specifically requests feedback on the idea that a researcher’s biosketch could “include a short explanation of their most important scientific contributions.” Sounds like a chance for [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Heather is going to be full-time total-impact starting August 1st!For the last two years I have been a DataONE postdoc, with discretionary time for synergistic activities like total-impact. I went officially 50/50 when the Sloan grant started May 1st…. and have now revised that plan to be 100% total-impact starting in six weeks. My passion [...]
These are exciting days in total-impact land: We’re participating (and speaking!) in StartUp Science this weekend. Check out the lineup: PeerJ! Mendeley! Academia.edu! ScienceExchange! total-Impact! OAMonday! and more. Ambitious innovative research tools are going to be game-changing for the way scientists work. altmetrics12 is next week! Jason has been one of the main movers and shakers [...]
I (Jason) recently watched Andrea Michalek’s presentation describing Plum Analytics, and I’m excited to see yet another altmetrics tool being rolled out. I have to admit that it’s still a bit surreal to see Real Grown-Up People talking about altmetrics as a viable commercial product, after coining the word less than 24 months ago. But [...]
Sustainability is important for the kind of infrastructure we want to build with total-impact. The obvious way to do this is to pass along our costs to folks who want to use the metrics, and we’ve discussed ways to do this. However, over the last week, we’ve reached an important decision: in addition to keeping [...]
