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Help make the publishing world more science 2.0 friendly

User generated content survey: lazyweb, please help!
( from Nature)

Got a sec? If you can read and understand a scientific abstract then we need you to help make the publishing world more science 2.0 friendly. Thirty seconds, five minutes, half an hour - whatever you can spare would be great.

Please visit ploscomments.appspot.com and categorize the comments left on papers in PLoS ONE up to Aug '08.

PLoS ONE were one of the first journals to allow online commenting and (I think) the first to allow blog trackbacks and inline annotations. Last year PLoS's community manager Bora kindly put together some spreadsheets to let people see the stats behind this reader generated content. Deepak Singh and Cameron Neylon checked out the numbers.

I agree with Deepak's assessment:

Is the commenting on PLoS One at a level that we hoped it would be? Not quite. Is it as bad as some might like to believe? Not quite.

... in the best possible way. Considering how alien the concept of commenting on a paper online is to most scientists PLoS should be pleased with their efforts.

By categorizing comments we should be able to better understand what kind of comments get left and responded to and hopefully we can get a better idea of how they should be encouraged and presented. I'll make the results publicly available once they've all been processed.

Thanks in advance - and have fun!

Well, maybe not fun. It's actually quite hard work which is why I'm hoping the blogosphere will help out. I promise that we'll use the results for good.

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Biology Rocks with Concert Posters for Academic Lectures

(via io9.com)

Somebody over in the Biology Dept. at University of North Carolina understands that science just freakin rocks. That's why they commission a local indie poster designer to create flyers for their lectures.

These posters were all created by North Carolina's The Merch, a group of designers who usually create party invites, band posters, and awesome t-shirts. Above you can see four of UNC's recent events, advertised on posters that look like they should be plastered on the wall outside a venue where The Decemberists or Death Cab for Cutie are playing. I especially love the one about early mouse development - that mouse embryo really looks post-grunge in its stark freakiness. And how about "Human Pheromones and Olfaction"? That is totally Le Tigre's new album, if only Le Tigre were still making albums.

No word on whether these are all-ages shows, or if you have to be 21 to get into one of UNC's ultra-cool science concerts. Erm, I mean lectures. Collect all the posters.

Biology Posters via BoingBoing