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27 Nov 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Walking the walk: how the scientific community is embracing open data

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Academia, Competition, Data, Events, Publishing, Research, UK

Walking the walk: how the scientific community is embracing open data

The 2017 Better Science through Better Data event in London, UK, hosted by Springer Nature and Wellcome, was a full day exposé of emerging open data practices, tools, strategies, and policies. Among the potential benefits of open data are replicability, reproducibility, and reusability. While open data is a relatively new hype, some evidence suggests that open data does indeed increase reproducibility.  Read more

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  • anastasia greenberg
  • better science through better data
  • Data
  • open data
  • publishing
  • reproducibility
  • Scientific publishing

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08 Nov 2017 | 13:00 GMT

The coming of age of biology

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Academia, Competition, Data, Research

The coming of age of biology

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  • biological sciences
  • Data
  • data sharing
  • open data
  • sara osman
  • scidata17
  • Scientific Data
  • sharing data

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27 Oct 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Surviving academia as an early career researcher: an unreliable guide

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Data, Funding, Multimedia, PhD, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research

Surviving academia as an early career researcher: an unreliable guide

In today’s cut-throat world of grants and publications, being an early career researcher (ECR) can feel more than a little daunting. As an ECR myself, I can’t guarantee that this will help you make it to the other side unscathed. But I’m still here, and if you’re reading this, you probably are too. Outlined below are the things I’ve learnt during the ups and downs of post-PhD life.  Read more

Tags:

  • atma ivancevic
  • competitions
  • Data
  • exercise as a scientist
  • networking
  • online presence
  • open data
  • Open source
  • paper
  • read
  • results
  • scientific writing
  • socialising
  • to do list
  • travel
  • vizualisation
  • work-life balance
  • Work/life balance
  • write
  • writing

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25 Oct 2017 | 13:00 GMT

How will open data advance scientific discovery?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Data, Mobility, Research, Technology

How will open data advance scientific discovery?

As a global population we are generating more data than ever before. The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that by 2020 over 80 million gigabytes of data will be produced every minute. Each second, the world will generate enough data for a 50-year-long Netflix binge. Scientific investigation is a big part of that: every day huge amounts of data are generated on everything from the behaviour of supernovae to the 3D structure of proteins in the brain. When the world’s largest radio telescope comes online in 2020, it alone will produce 180,000 gigabytes of data a minute.  Read more

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  • Data
  • deluge
  • edinburgh
  • how much data is being made?
  • IDC
  • information
  • neuroscience
  • open data
  • PhD
  • sarah lempriere
  • scidata17
  • Scientific Data Writing competition
  • using data
  • writing competition

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18 Oct 2017 | 13:00 GMT

The power of data shared

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Blog, Collaboration, Communication, Competition, Data, Postgraduate, Research, UK

The power of data shared

Better Science through Better Data writing competition winner Katie Ember  … Read more

Tags:

  • barriers
  • better science through better data
  • chemistry
  • Data
  • interdisciplinary
  • katie ember
  • medicine
  • open data
  • publishing
  • scidata17
  • Scientific Data
  • sharing
  • sharing data
  • team science
  • writing competition

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16 Oct 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Remapping the scientific landscape: moving from a closed to open science world

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Competition, Data, In the news, PhD, Research, Technology, US

Remapping the scientific landscape: moving from a closed to open science world

Better Science through Better Data writing competition winner Anastasia Greenberg  … Read more

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  • anastasia greenberg
  • better science through better data
  • Data
  • experiement
  • information
  • journals
  • mit
  • open
  • open data
  • publishing
  • sci-hub
  • scidata17
  • Scientific publishing
  • writing competition

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21 Jul 2017 | 13:00 GMT

From Doctorate to Data Science: A very short guide

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Data, Industry, Mobility, PhD, Postgraduate, Research, Social media, Technology

From Doctorate to Data Science: A very short guide

Are you one of the many PhDs considering a career in data science? I completed a PhD in neuroscience at Stanford three years ago; now I’m a data scientist at Uber. During my time in industry, I’ve found that the skills we develop in graduate school, such as analytical thinking, statistics, communication skills, and – oh yes – tenacity in the face of adversity, make us a great fit for the role.  Read more

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  • Academia to Industry
  • advice
  • collaboration
  • Data
  • data analysis
  • data heavy
  • data research
  • data science
  • data scientist
  • differences between academia industry
  • experimentation
  • grace tang
  • information
  • natural science to data research
  • neuroscience
  • PhD
  • Stanford
  • uber

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12 Jul 2017 | 12:00 GMT

Announcing the Better Science through Better Data 2017 (#scidata17) writing competition

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Competition, Data, news, Publishing, Research, Technology

Announcing the Better Science through Better Data 2017 (#scidata17) writing competition

After a very successful event last year, we are again looking for five budding science writers to help with news coverage of this year’s Better Science through Better Data event.  Read more

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  • better science through better data
  • competition
  • conference
  • Data
  • event
  • journalism
  • Nature
  • Scientific Data
  • springer nature
  • writing
  • writing competition

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19 Jun 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Ask not what you can do for open data; ask what open data can do for you

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Blog, Collaboration, Communication, Data, Open access, Publishing, Research, Technology

Ask not what you can do for open data; ask what open data can do for you

It has been shown that research articles receive more citations when they have their underlying data openly linked to them. With this in mind, it’s time to consider not just the ideological reasons for making research data open, but the selfish benefits of openly sharing data that all researchers can (and should) be taking advantage of.  Read more

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  • collaboration
  • Data
  • digital
  • information
  • mat astell
  • mathias astell
  • open data
  • paper
  • publication
  • reproducibility
  • research
  • Scientific Data
  • scientific reports
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22 Mar 2017 | 12:15 GMT

On academic job insecurity and the ultimate tenure

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Careers articles, CV, Funding, Mobility, Perspectives, Postdoc

On academic job insecurity and the ultimate tenure

My latest mini-meltdown came after eight years in research employment, at the beginning of Contract No. 17. It came late. I’d lost a couple of thousand GBP from moving out hastily, lived for two months with my mum, moved far from the city of my university to use the affordable seaside lets in winter, and was about to live out of a suitcase in a youth hostel while my “permanent” accommodation became free. Three masters, PhD, top UK University and all. Most read paper of the month and a “will be delighted to hear about your ongoing work” letter from a senior parliamentary official in my inbox.  Read more

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  • accomodation
  • balance
  • contract
  • Data
  • grant
  • mila petrova
  • panic
  • postdoc
  • stress
  • work-life balance

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