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Basic Writers and the Echoes of Intertextuality
Authors: Smith Cheryl Hogue
Published: March 2024

Instruction that fosters intertextual awareness in basic writers can help them overcome their tendency to compartmentalize what they learn from academic texts and thereby help them make rich connections among the texts they read and write.
The New Art of Revision? Research Papers, Blogs, and the First-Year Composition Classroom
Authors: Costello Lisa A.
Published: March 2024

Although blogs used in the composition classroom have most often been employed as prewriting forums or journals, this article suggests that blogs can also be used effectively as a revision tool in the later stages of writing academic research papers.
Op’nin’ the Door for Appalachia in the Writing Classroom
Authors: Hayes Amanda
Published: March 2024

This essay explores mainstream apprehensions against Appalachian dialect(s), arguing that these dialects/cultures have a misunderstood history and an important role to play in Appalachian composition classrooms.
Beyond “ESL Writing”: Teaching Cross-Cultural Composition at a Community College
Authors: Miller-Cochran Susan
Published: March 2024

This article describes the design and implementation of a cross-cultural composition coursewhich was designed to provide opportunities for ESL students and native English-speaking students to learn about cross-cultural literacy practices from each other in a first-year writing context at a community college in the Southwest.
The Heterogeneous Second-Language Population in US Colleges and the Impact on Writing Program Design
Authors: Gennaro Kristen di
Published: March 2024

This article reviews various frameworks for defining second-language learner groups, as described in the literature, and summarizes relevant empirical studies based on these frameworks.
Rendering the Idea of a Writing Program: A Look at Six Two-Year Colleges
Authors: Janangelo Joseph , Klausman Jeffrey
Published: March 2024

By offering an annotated image of a half-dozen two-year college writing “programs,” this essay seeks to raise awareness of the challenges facing those who promote, work in, work toward, or participate in the development of two-year college writing programs and to consider how the “idea” of a writing program plays out in shaping those challenges.
Using Choice Words in Nonfiction Reading Conferences
Authors: Cummins Sunday
Published: March 2024

The inquiry described in this article is meant to extend the work of Johnston (Choice Words) and others, specifically in the area of naming the effective ways teachers use language during conferences with students who are reading nonfiction. In an effort to identify what might occur during this type of conference, I audiotaped, transcribed, and analyzed eight reading conferences with third-grade students who were reading nonfiction texts during a reading workshop.
Preservice Teachers as Kidwatchers: Learning to Observe and Document How Children Read
Authors: Liwanag Maria Perpetua Socorro U. , Kim Koomi
Published: March 2024

Liwanag and Kim used miscue analysis to explore the power of kidwatching with their preservice teachers. Doing so helped these college students develop a greater understanding of young readers.
In Memoriam for Jennifer Wilson
Authors: Gilles Carol
Published: March 2024

Carol Gilles offers a moving tribute to her coeditor, Jennifer Wilson.
Definitions and Counter Definitions: Text, Students, and Teachers
Authors: Whitmore Kathryn F. , Poock William H. , Malamut Anah V.
Published: March 2024

Kathy Whitmore, William Poock, and Anah Malamut present two cases: a third grader labeled “struggling reader” and an eighth grader labeled “learning-disabled.” They explore how the teachers’ and students’ perceptions of abilities changed when they used more authentic learning experiences.
Re-Storying One’s Life: How One Boy Uses Digital Literacies to Transform an Existing Label
Authors: Cortez-Riggio Kim-Marie
Published: March 2024

Kim-Marie Cortez-Riggio documents how using digital literacy transformed a “resource-room kid” into a fifth-grade classroom expert.
Exploring the Lived-through Experiences of a Young Learner
Authors: Sánchez Lenny
Published: March 2024

Lenny Sánchez narrates the experience of a young boy as he lives through a self-authored, multimodal text, linking the boy’s moves with Rosenblatt’s foundational work.
Where We Are: Responsive Reading Using Edmodo
Authors: Styslinger Mary E. , Eberlin Emily Langdon
Published: March 2024

Mary Styslinger and Emily Eberlin share their collaborative inquiry into using an online space for teaching and learning.
Voices Carry: A Content Analysis of Voices from the Middle
Authors: Wilson Melissa B. , Blady Shannon , Kumar Tracey , Moorman Honor , Prior Lori , Willson Angeli Marie
Published: March 2024

As educators who have been strongly influenced by this journal, the authors decided to do a content analysis of the “voices” from Voices from the Middle, from its inception to today. They listened closely to who is talking, what the authors are (and are not) discussing, the educational contexts of these conversations, and how the dialogue has changed over time. What they found were common themes that ran across the ongoing discussion, as well as issues in language arts teaching and learning being worked out in ongoing dialogue.
Future Directions: A Call for Actions
Authors: Meyer Richard
Published: March 2024

The first part of this article is a discussion of the present contexts in which middle level teachers, students, and researchers learn and teach; it’s a rather dismal portrait constrained by legislation and policies. The second part, in which hope begins to present itself, introduces readers to some middle level students, their teacher, and a researcher who are working to (re)claim the reading and writing voices of the students. The final section is an introduction to five potential actions that could include the voices and actions of middle level students, their teachers, researchers, and others concerned with a progressive education agenda.
Looking Forward: Increased Attention to LGBTQ Students and Families in Middle Grade Classrooms
Authors: Wickens Corrine M. , Wedwick Linda
Published: March 2024

Looking backwards, discussions around sexual orientation and sexual identity have been noticeably absent at the middle grades. As a result, middle grade teachers may find it difficult to know how to effectively select age-appropriate materials that include LGBTQ issues and content. To move the field forward, the authors specifically highlight four such novels: The Skull of Truth (Coville, 2007), From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (Woodson, 1995), So Hard to Say (Sanchez, 2004), and Totally Joe (Howe, 2005). They then connect these books to broader topics that could be used in a variety of instructional settings.
Postcard from the Middle Level Section: Lessons from the Past
Authors: Goodson Lori , Committee Middle Level Section
Published: March 2024

Goodson uses the metaphor of the rearview mirror, which allows us to move ahead while keeping an eye on what came before, to encourage membership in the middle level section. That connection with others and with the past can inform our future, making our decisions stronger and our success much more likely.
The Case for Adaptability as an Aspect of Reading Teacher Effectiveness
Authors: Parsons Seth , Williams Baxter , Burrowbridge Sarah , Mauk Gary
Published: March 2024

The authors present adaptability as an important component of reading teacher effectiveness. They demonstrate recent conceptions of teacher effectiveness that value the complexity and unpredictability of classroom instruction. Using an example from a middle grades classroom, they illustrate how effective teachers adapt their instruction to enhance student learning, and they describe two recent studies that suggest teacher adaptations have a positive effect on middle grades students’ comprehension and engagement.
Student to Student: A Column to Celebrate Students’ Voices
Authors: Ranck-Buhr Wendy
Published: March 2024

The new editor of Student to Student suggests that all middle level teachers of language arts encourage students to write brief book reviews and submit them for publication in this column. Teachers sometimes hesitate to submit their students’ reviews, intimidated by the scope of a national journal, but the motivational power of having just one student from a classroom or school published is palpable, and the reviews themselves, when shared with students, can serve to motivate reading and spark an interest in a new author or genre. Guidelines for teaching the review format and for submitting to Voices from the Middle are provided. Get reviewing!
Coda: Effective Teaching: Meeting the 5 M’s
Authors: Wilhelm Jeffrey D.
Published: March 2024

Wilhelm laments the “inadequate and impoverished” orientation of teaching as telling—the simple transmission of information. He believes “effective teaching is about something entirely more complicated and wonderful: the creation of learning cultures that actively assist students not only toward … expertise, but also toward outgrowing their current selves as human beings.” In reading this issue’s articles, Wilhelm was struck by repeated motifs, which he has condensed into a heuristic he calls the 5 M’s: Materials, Methods, Measure, Monitors, and Malleability. He applies these characteristics to effective teaching and to learning outcomes, and believes that they can overcome “bad testing.” He says, “[They] had better. The stakes are high, and so is the challenge.”
News and Notes from the Middle Level Section
Authors: Goodson Lori
Published: March 2024

Goodson lets the confetti fly as she celebrates the upcoming 100th anniversary of NCTE. How far we’ve come! Visit the Connected Community, interact with others of your section or who share other common interests, read the journals, write for the journals, and by all means attend the party at the 100th NCTE convention in Chicago, where the Council was born. The more involved you are, the more your teaching and your life will be enriched.
Building Background Knowledge within Literature Circles
Authors: Barone Diane , Barone Rebecca
Published: March 2024

The authors examined the strength of literature circles in developing background knowledge an acknowledged sticking point in the development of understanding for middle graders with a special focus on the literature circle role of investigator, where it is student initiative and not teacher direction that guides comprehension. Observing students who were reading Maniac Magee with a teacher who supported reading in literature circles, the authors concluded that being an investigator allowed students to personally learn about topics, words, and people that were important to understanding the novel, and that by treating the novel as a puzzle to solve, they developed an appreciation for the authors research and skill, broadened their own background knowledge, routinely listened and responded to others in their circle, and developed as critical readers. An added bonus was the development of a homeschool dialogue.
A Comprehensive Approach to Vocabulary Instruction
Authors: Marzano Robert J.
Published: March 2024

Marzano offers a brief review of research in vocabulary instruction, focusing on the concept of tiers to describe words used with different contexts and purposes. He then suggests teaching tools that may work to help specific student populations learn and retain those words across the K12 curriculum.
Weighing Anchor in the “Ragged Times”
Authors: Perry Tonya B.
Published: March 2024

In today’s middle school classroom, grouping is an essential learning tool that enhances students’ ability to collaborate with others and deepen their own thinking. Implementing group work effectively, though, can be a challenge, especially since groups tend to end their work at “ragged” or staggered times. Creating “anchor activities” “respectful work students can do to increase their understanding” can further the class’s learning experiences during group work. Designing anchor activities to focus students’ inquisitive and creative energy increases their knowledge even during the ragged times and maintains their focus on respectful work.
Writing for a Built-in Audience: Writing Groups in the Middle School Classroom
Authors: Hovan Gretchen
Published: March 2024

In this era of high-stakes testing and densely packed state standards, it is too easy for writing to become a meaningless process, useful only for school. Many strategies can help to get all students writing, but this author set out to find a strategy to help students see the power of writing and to know that their voices matter. Writing groups are what finally made writing a meaningful experience for all students in this classroom. Through research and experimentation, the author learned structures to make this special kind of group work effective and saw how writing groups transformed students’ ideas of writing and the writing process. Writing groups gave students access to an authentic and meaningful audience for their writing. Reflecting on how to give helpful comments promoted a deeper understanding of the role and power of revision.
Factors influencing the Delivery of Preconception Care Services among Nursing and Midwifery Students at Aga Khan University, Kenya
Authors: Mukolwe Levy , Mbuthia Gladys , Akolo Maureen
Published: March 2024

Preconception care (PCC) is crucial in addressing biomedical conditions, social factors, and risky behaviors that may jeopardize a healthy pregnancy. Despite its significance, nurses, and midwives face challenges in comprehending the importance and components of PCC, hindering their ability to provide comprehensive care. Inconsistencies in training curricula and a lack of in-service training leave students ill-equipped for PCC provision. This study, conducted through a cross-sectional quantitative descriptive approach at Aga Khan University, involved 104 nursing and midwifery students selected through random sampling. The overall knowledge of PCC was 63.35%, 28.8% correctly defined PCC and its components, and while 67.3% of respondents had received PCC training during their previous education 75% had not undergone in-service or refresher training. Moreover, 45% had not provided PCC in the past six months, and only 45.2% of facilities had PCC guidelines, indicating potential standardization gaps. While the study focused on nursing and midwifery students, acknowledging a limitation in representing all healthcare professionals involved in PCC, it emphasized the need to integrate PCC education into curricula. Recognizing PCC as a vital health component underscores its significance, shedding light on gaps in continuing education for healthcare providers. Collaboration among health professionals in delivering PCC services is suggested to enhance care quality. Furthermore, the study advocates for guidelines to standardize PCC services, promoting consistent and high-quality care. Overall, the insights garnered can inform strategies to improve the reproductive and maternal health of women and couples through enhanced PCC services. The health belief model was the theory underpinning the study.
ELEMENTAL AND THERMOGRAVIMETRIC APPROACH TO ANALYZING THE ENERGY GENERATION POTENTIAL OF RECYCLED PLASTIC-PAPER COMPOSITES
Authors: Ejilah I.R. , Gaji M.M , Mohammed I.Y.
Published: March 2024

Samples of plastic and paper waste were collected and subjected to various procedures including drying, manual sorting, pulverization, and homogenization. The elemental analysis of the samples was conducted following the ASTM D3176-15 standard, revealing that the plastic-paper composite samples had lower carbon and hydrogen content compared to the PL100 plastic benchmark. While thermogravimetric tests were performed on the samples in a thermal analyzer according to the ASTM procedure. Interestingly, the composite samples showed a higher presence of elemental oxygen, except for the sample with 25%wt. of paper. Moreover, sulfur content increased in composite samples with 25% wt., 50% wt., and 75% wt. of paper, while the sample with 100% wt. of paper exhibited a decrease in sulfur content. Combustibility was assessed based on the peak temperature at the maximum weight loss rate, indicating that samples PL100, PL50+PA50, and PL75+PA25 displayed higher combustibility compared to samples PL25+PA95 and PA100. Hence, these samples could be recommended for use as refuse-derived fuel due to their potential for energy recovery. The impact of waste-to-fuel research will be felt in waste reduction (SDG 7), clean energy (SDG 12), climate action (SDG 13), and ecosystem protection (SDG 15).
EFFECTS OF MOISTURE CONTENT ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF PADDY AND DEHUSKED RICE
Authors: Mazza M. , Abubakar L.G. , Hamisu M.M. , Akangbe O. , Jahun B.G. , Aminu M. , Jilima A. A.
Published: March 2024

The physical properties of rice are among the most important parameters for design of agricultural machine and other equipment for handling, planting, harvesting, processing, packaging and storing. This work is aimed at the determination of some of the physical properties of two varieties of rice at varying moisture content that are important in designing rice handling machine. The physical properties of two most popular produced rice varieties in Nigeria (FARO 44 and FARO 57) both paddy and dehusked at three different moisture content (5, 10 and 15%) were determined. Laboratory studies were carried out to determined physical properties of the two varieties of rice ((FARO 44 and FARO 57) important properties for the laboratory work includes: bulk density, unit density, roundness, axial dimensions, sphericity, projected areas, unit volume, unit weight, apparent density, were determined based on different moisture content and random sampling techniques. The results showed that minimum lengths of dehusked rice ranged from 4.57 - 5.29 mm while maximum lengths were between 8.21 - 8.25 mm. For paddy these lengths were minimally 7.65 - 8.78 mm and maximum lengths were 11.39 mm. The least range of minor diameters of dehusked rice was 4.57 - 5.29 mm and maximally these were 8.21 - 8.25 mm. Intermediate diameters were minimally 1.43 mm and maximally in the range of 2.71 - 2.78 mm for dehusked rice; for paddy these were 1.65 - 1.76 mm and 2.46 - 2.78 mm, respectively. Geometric mean diameters ranged between 3.31 - 4.05 mm. For paddy, projected area obtained within the range of 11.71 - 29.75 mm
2. For dehusked rice, projected area obtained in the range of 8.79 - 21.19 mm
2. Estimates of roundness were not higher than 33.6% for paddy or 54% for some grains of dehusked rice. The grains appeared more spherical than they were round since paddy were 35.3 - 48.3% spherical while dehusked grains were 39.8 - 59.4% spherical. Bulk densities ranged between 531.0 - 553.8 kg/m
3 and 839.6 - 852.7 kg/m
3 for dehusked forms of Faro 44 and Faro 57, respectively. True density was in the range of 1071.6 - 1566.2 kg/m
3.This study concludes that moisture content and variety affect the engineering property and is useful in the design, development of machine for processing and handling of rice products.
Pengaruh Media Dakwah Terhadap Motivasi Keislaman Peserta Didik di MTs 29 Jakarta
Authors: Muin M. Tamsil
Published: March 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menginvestigasi pengaruh media dakwah terhadap motivasi keislaman peserta didik di MTs 29 Jakarta. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kuantitatif dengan desain penelitian korelasional. Sampel penelitian ini adalah peserta didik MTs 29 Jakarta yang berjumlah 605 responden, yang terdiri dari laki-laki 269 dan perempuan 336 siswa. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah kuesioner untuk mengukur penggunaan media dakwah dan tingkat motivasi keislaman peserta didik. Data yang terkumpul dianalisis menggunakan teknik analisis regresi sederhana. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya pengaruh positif dan negatif dengan penggunaan media dakwah dengan motivasi keislaman peserta didik di MTs 29 Jakarta. Implikasi dari penelitian ini adalah pentingnya peran media dakwah dalam meningkatkan motivasi keislaman peserta didik di institusi pendidikan Islam. Penelitian ini juga memberikan masukan bagi pihak terkait untuk lebih memperhatikan penggunaan media dakwah sebagai salah satu sarana untuk meningkatkan motivasi keislaman peserta didik.
PROSPECTING ASEAN-MERCOSUR COOPERATION
Authors: Mulyaman Darynaufal , Djaya Jason Rafael Setia , Pradono Bimo Adi
Published: March 2024

Association of Southeast Asian Nations or Asean is one of the regional organizations that exist in today’s world. Then, Mercosur or Mercado Común del Sur (Southern Common Market) is a South American trade bloc that moving forward beyond the traditional regional bloc, because the nature of its organization lays more on economic and trade transactions, rather than politics. As globalization grows, these two regional organizations seek more deep cooperation. Nevertheless, through a comparative historical qualitative descriptive analysis, this paper argues that the cooperation will lead to both failures and failed to secure engagement because of the nature of Spaghetti Bowls (or Noodle Bowls in Asia) in the organization country member’s respective economic crafts since the country members also join other trans-continental economic partnership. Moreover, both regional groups are naturally not the traditional partners of each other, thus How the Asean and Mercosur cooperation could benefit each other despite the nature of Spaghetti Bowls in their regionalization? Furthermore, this paper also argues that Asean could learn how the Mercosur model could be used for its AEC or Asean Economic Community since Mercosur intra-trade is more advanced than Asean intra-trade. Further, the comparison analysis also provided in this research.
KOMUNIKASI INTERPERSONAL GURU DALAM MENUNJANG MINAT BELAJAR SISWA SISWI MADRASAH ALIYAH SEPAKU DI KAWASAN IBU KOTA NEGARA NUSANTARA
Authors: Royanti Royanti , Wahdiansyah Wahdiansyah , Rahmawati Sulis
Published: March 2024

Interpersonal communication is used in the form of achieving goals, for example, communication between teachers and students, and students and students. The purpose of education would not be realized without skilled and creative educators in carrying out the educational process as communication skills in finding out the strategies for supporting and inhibiting factors that support students' learning interests. Based on that reason, this study took the issue of teacher interpersonal communication in supporting students' learning interests at Madrasah Aliyah Sepaku using a descriptive qualitative method. Data collection tools include interview observations and documentation. The results of this study indicated that the interpersonal communication skills of teachers towards their students during the learning process in class such as creating a conducive and pleasant classroom atmosphere could support students' learning interest and intimacy and concern for their students. Factors supporting interest in learning at school were shown by the types of subjects and more focus during the learning process. The inhibiting factors of students' interest in learning were shown by teachers’ quality in teaching and the difficulty accepting subjects. If students are interested in learning activities, the process of learning would be better.
ANALISIS SEMIOTIKA DALAM MEMPRESENTASIKAN BUDAYA PERNIKAHAN DINI PADA FILM “YUNI”
Authors: Suhada Siti , Royanti Royanti , Lestari Rini
Published: March 2024

Film Yuni mengangkat cerita kehidupan remaja yang duduk di bangku SMA di Serang Banten, yang menyuguhkan kondisi masyarakat yang melakukan pernikahan dini, dan faktor yang melatarbelakangi salah satunya adalah pengaruh sosial budaya. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui isu-isu pernikahan dini serta melihat potret dampak buruknya perihal pernikahan dini yang diwakili oleh film Yuni dilihat dari tingkatan realitas, representasi, dan ideologi. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif yang dianalisis menggunankan analisis semiotika John Fiske. Subjek dan objek dalam penelitian adalah observasi pada tampilan audio dan visual dalam adegan film. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah dokumentasi dan studi pustaka. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan representasi pernikahan dini dalam film Yuni dilihat dari tiga level yang dikemukakan John Fiske. Pada level realitas, pernikahan dini dilihat dari aspek penampilan, cara berbicara, perilaku, ekspresi dan lingkungan.
Attribution for all! Mechanisms for citation are the key to changing the academic credit culture
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Image via Wikipedia Once again a range of conversations in different places have collided in my feed reader. Over on Nature Networks, Martin Fenner posted on Researcher ID which lead to a discussion about attribution and in particular Martin’s comment that there was a need to be able to link to comments and the necessity of timestamps.
A new type of chemistry journal: Nature Chemistry requests input
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

As has been noted in a few places, Neil Withers, one of the editors of soon to be newest Nature journal, Nature Chemistry put out a request last week for input on a range of issues to do with how people use journals, formats, and technical widgets. Egon Willighagen, Rich Apodaca, and Oscar the Journal Munching Robot (masquerading as Peter Murray-Rust, or is that the other way around?) have already posted responses.
Linking up open science online
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I am currently sitting at the dining table of Peter Murray-Rust with Egon Willighagen opposite me talking to Jean-Claude Bradley. We pulling together sets of data from Jean-Claude’s UsefulChem project into CML to make it more semantically rich and do a bunch of cool stuff. Jean-Claude has a recently published preprint on Nature Precedings of a paper that has been submitted to JoVE.
Convergent evolution of scientist behaviour on Web 2.0 sites?
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

A thought sparked off by a comment from Maxine Clarke at Nature Networks where she posted a link to a post by David Crotty. The thing that got me thinking was Maxine’ statement: Alright, in isolation this doesn’t look like much, read through both David’s post and the comments, and then come back to Maxine’s,Â
Increasing the persistence of online Open Notebooks
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Weird. I came across WebCite this morning while having a quick scan through the Eysenbach paper on Open Access increasing number of citations in PLoS Biology. At the bottom was the comment that all the web pages have been archived on WebCite.
Brief report on open science workshop at BioSysBio
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I’m afraid I didn’t manage to record anything in the end. Video card on laptop wasn’t up to the job. Will try to write a report up over dinner tonight and post later.
Avoid the pain and embarassment – make all the raw data available
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

A story of two major retractions from a well known research group has been getting a lot of play over the last few days with a News Feature (1) and Editorial (2) in the 15 May edition of Nature. The story turns on claim that Homme Hellingaâ€™s group was able to convert the E. coli ribose binding protein into a Triose phosphate isomerase (TIM) using a computational design strategy.
Incorporating My Experiment and Taverna into the LaBLog – A possible example
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

During the workshop in late February we had discussions about possible implementations of Taverna work flows to automate specific processes to make our life easier. One specific example we discussed was the reduction and initial analysis of Small Angle Neutrons Scattering data. Here I want to describe a bit of the background to what this is and what we might do to kick of the discussion.
How I got into open science â€“ a tale of opportunism and serendipity
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

So Michael Nielsen, one morning at breakfast at Scifoo asked one of those questions which never has a short answer; â€˜So how did you get into this open science thing?â€™ and I realised that although I have told the story to many people I havenâ€™t ever written it down.
Provenance, identity, and Google App Engine
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Image by davemc500hats via Flickr One thing that has been becoming clearer and clearer to me is the need to an agreed central authority for identify. This is one thing, possibly

the

one thing, that needs to be absolutely secure and inviolable for Open Science to work. Trust relies on provenance. Attribution, which is at the heart of open practice, relies on provenance.
An abstract for the International Meeting on E-social Sciences
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I have said before that I think we could benefit from the involvement of social scientists in understanding the possible cultural issues involved in the move towards more open practises.
Give me the feed tools and I can rule the world!
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Two things last week gave me more cause to think a bit harder about the RSS feeds from our LaBLog and how we can use them. First, when I gave my talk at UKOLN I made a throwaway comment about search and aggregation. I was arguing that the real benefits of open practice would come when we can use other peopleâ€™s filters and aggregation tools to easily access the science that we ought to be seeing.
The need for open data is getting more mainstream
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Via Jean-Claude Bradley on UsefulChem, an article in Wired on making more of the ‘Dark Data’ out there available. As Jean-Claude notes this is focussed mainly on the notion of ‘failed experiments’ and ‘positive bias’ but there is much more background data out there. Experiments that don’t quite make the grade for inclusion in the paper or are just one of many that may be useful from a statistical perspective.
The full Web2.0 experience – My talk tomorrow at IWMW in Aberdeen
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Tomorrow I am giving a talk at the UKOLN Institutional Web Managers workshop starting at 12:45 British Summer Time (GMT+1). In principle you will be able to see the talk video cast at the links on the video streaming page.
AHM2007 Medical E-science session
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Brief notes on this parallel session from E-science all hands meeting on Tuesday morning. First talk in this session discussed the CARMEN project which aims to provide repositories and tools for neuroscience electrophyisology data. There was a short discussion on the challenges of persuading scientists to put the data in. The speaker’s (Paul Watson) view was that this would probably need to be driven by funders and journals.
Getting scooped…
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I have been waiting to write this post for a while. The biggest concern expressed when people consider taking on an Open Notebook Science approach is that of being â€˜scoopedâ€™. I wanted to talk about this potential risk using a personal example where my group was scooped but I didnâ€™t want to talk about someone else’s published paper until the paper on our work was available for people to compare.
What I missed on my holiday or Why I like refereeing for PLoS ONE
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I was away last week having a holiday and managed to miss the whole Declan Butler/PLoS/Blogosphere dustup. Looked like fun. I don’t want to add to the noise as I think there was a lot of knee jerk reactions and significantly more heat than light. For anyone coming here without having heard about this I will point at the original article, Bora’s summary of reactions, and Timo Hannay’s reply at Nature.
The research network proposal – update II
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Thanks to all those who have sent letters of support, paragraphs of text, and made comments or modifications to the proposal. Just a quick update on where we are. The text of the proposal is up at GoogleDocs. I believe I have given anyone who has commented on the original post access to edit but if not give me a yell or just send me any comments by email or pop them in as comments here.
Open Science in the Undergraduate Laboratory: Could this be the success story we’re looking for?
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

A whole series of things have converged in the last couple of days for me. First was Jean-Claude’s description of the work [1, 2] he and Brent Friesen of the Dominican University are doing putting the combi-Ugi project into an undergraduate laboratory setting. The students will make new compounds which will then be sent for testing as antimalarial agents by Phil Rosenthal at UCSF.
Workshop on Blog Based Notebooks
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

DUE TO SEVERE COMMENT SPAM ON THIS POST I HAVE CLOSED IT TO COMMENTS On February 28/29 we held a workshop on our Blog Based notebook system at the Cosener’s House in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
Defining error rates in the Illumina sequence: A useful and feasible open project?
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Regular readers will know I am a great believer in the potential of Web2.0 tools to enable rapid aggregation of loose networks of collaborators to solve a particular problem and the possibilities of using this approach to do science better, faster, and more efficiently.
The heavyweights roll in…distinguishing recording the experiment from reporting it
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Frank Gibson of peanutbutter has left a long comment on my post about data models for lab notebooks which I wanted to respond to in detail. We have also had some email exchanges. This is essentially an incarnation of the heavyweight

vs

lightweight debate when it comes to tools and systems for description of experiments.
More on the science exchance – or building and capitalising a data commons
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Image from Wikipedia via Zemanta Following on from the discussion a few weeks back kicked off by Shirley at One Big Lab and continued here I’ve been thinking about how to actually turn what was a throwaway comment into reality: There is a problem at the core of this. For someone to pay for access to the results, there has to be a monetary benefit to them.
BoF Session on enabling uptake of e-science
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I went along to a session on enabling uptake, which has evolved out of groups based in education and training. This mainly involved people focussed on education and training and support people. It was mainly focussed on Grid based systems. Two interesting things came out of this I thought.
Connecting Open Notebook data to a peer reviewed paper
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

One thing that we have been thinking about a bit recently is how best to link elements of a peer reviewed paper back to an Open Notebook. There are a number of issues that this raises, both technical and philosophical about how and why we might do this.
Open Science Workshop at Southampton – 31 August and 1 September 2008
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Image via Wikipedia I’m aware I’ve been trailing this idea around for sometime now but its been difficult to pin down due to issues with room bookings. However I’m just going to go ahead and if we end up meeting in a local bar then so be it! If Southampton becomes too difficult I might organise to have it at RAL instead but Southampton is more convenient in many ways.
How to make Connotea a killer app for scientists
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

So Ian Mulvaney asked, and as my solution did not fit into the margin I thought I would post here. Following on from the two rants of a few weeks back and many discussions at Scifoo I have been thinking about how scientists might be persuaded to make more use of social web based tools. What does it take to get enough people involved so that the network effects become apparent.
A (small) Feeding Frenzy
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Following on from (but unrelated to) my post last week about feed tools we have two posts, one from Deepak Singh, and one from Neil Saunders, both talking about ‘friend feeds’ or ‘lifestreams’. The idea here is of aggregating all the content you are generating (or is being generated about you?) into one place. There are a couple of these about but the main ones seem to be Friendfeed and Profiliac.
Science blogging challenge goes live
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

As I mentioned yesterday and Shirley Wu picked up on, the final session of Science Blogging 2008 offered a challenge to the audience (and to anyone else) to get more senior scientists blogging. The official announcement is now live – and a free trip to next year’s Science Foo Camp the ultimate prize.
An open letter to the developers of Social Network and â€˜Web 2.0â€™ tools for scientists
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

My aim is to email this to all the email addresses that I can find on the relevant sites over the next week or so, but feel free to diffuse more widely if you feel it is appropriate. Dear Developer(s) I am writing to ask your support in undertaking a critical analysis of the growing number of tools being developed that broadly fall into the category of social networking or collaborative tools for scientists.
Following up on data storage issues
Authors:   admin
Published: March 2024

There were lots of helpful comments on my previous post as well as some commiseration from Peter Murray-Rust. Also Jean-Claude Bradley’s group is starting to face some similar issues with the combi-Ugi project ramping up. All in the week that the Science Commons Open Data protocol is launched.
Research network proposal – Update III
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

The text of the proposal is now in a near complete form. I need to add references and a few others things but it is mostly in reasonable shape. If you would like to have your name included as a founder member of the network please drop me a comment on this post, email, or if I have given you editing rights then feel free to add yourself.
The distinction between recording and presenting – and what it means for an online lab notebook
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Something that has been bothering me for quite some time fell into place for me in the last few weeks. I had always been slightly confused by my reaction to the fact that on UsefulChem Jean-Claude actively works to improve and polish the description of the experiments on the wiki.
Some surveys you may wish to fill out
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

UK PubMedCentral, a UK mirror of PMC and a growing project at the British Library is soliciting responses to a survey: Much of the survey asks questions about what additional tools you use for scientific search etc and what features you would like to see in UK PMC. This worries me as it seems like duplication both of effort and the creation of yet another del.icio.us/Facebook/Google/whatever for scientists.
Southampton Open Science Workshop 31 August and 1 September
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

An update on the Workshop that I announced previously. We have a number of people confirmed to come down and I need to start firming up numbers. I will be emailing a few people over the weekend so sorry if you get this via more than one route. The plan of attack remains as follows: Meet on evening of Sunday 31 August in Southampton, most likely at a bar/restaurant near the University to coordinate/organise the details of sessions.
Research Graph 101
Authors: Aryani Amir
Published: March 2024

Author Amir Aryani (ORCID: 0000-0002-4259-9774) Introduction In this article we look at Research Graph as an information model , and an approach to connect and capture the connections between research outputs, researchers and research activities. We explore the metadata model, and we discuss how to capture this graph in a Neo4j Graph Database.
The trouble with institutional repositories
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I spent today at an interesting meeting at Talis headquarters where there was a wide range of talks. Most of the talks were liveblogged by Andy Powell and also by Owen Stephens (who has written a much more comprehensive summary of Andy’s talk) and there will no doubt be some slides and video available on the web in future. The programme is also available.
Discussion with OpenWetWare people
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

This morning I got to sit down with Bill Flanagan, Barry Canton, Austin Che, and Jason Kelly and throw some ideas around about electronic notebooks. This is an approximate summary of some of the points that came out of this. This may be a bit of brain dump so I might re-edit later. Neither Wikis nor Blogs provide all the functionality required.
Facebooks for scientists – they’re breeding like rabbits!
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I promised some of you I would do this a while ago and I simply haven’t got to it. But enough of the excuses. There has been a huge number of launches in the past few months of sites and services that are intended to act as social network sites for scientists. These join a number of older services including Nature Network, OpenWetWare, and others.
How best to do the open notebook thing…a nice specific example
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Peter Murray-Rust is going to take an Open Notebook Science approach to a project on checking whether NMR spectra match up with the molecules they are asserted to represent. The question he poses is how best to organise this.
Sharing is caring…and not sharing can be reprehensible
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Sometimes you read things that just make you angry. I’m not sure I can add much to this eloquent article written by Andrew Vickers in the New York Times (via Neil Saunders and the 23andme blog). Shirley Wu has recently written on the fears and issues of being scooped and whether this is field dependent or not.
Slashing and hacking feeds
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

More followup on feeds. I’ve set up a friendfeed which is available here. Amongst other things I’ve been trying to aggregate my comments on other people’s blogs. The way I am doing this is creating a tag in Google Reader which I have made public. When I leave a comment I try to subscribe to a comment feed for that Blog, I then tag it as ‘Comments feed’ which aggregates and makes it public as an RSS feed.
The Southampton Electronic Blog Notebook – Part 4 – Visualisation
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

In previous posts I have discussed the setup and rationale for how we are organising our blog-based electronic laboratory notebook. This has covered how the blog is actually organised. In this post I will look at the issue of how we actually view the blog and extract information. The organisation of the blog with a ‘one item one post‘ approach creates a problem. There are a large number of posts to describe even a relatively simple process.
Somewhat more complete report on BioSysBio workshop
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Image via Wikipedia This has taken me longer than expected to write up. Julius Lucks, John Cumbers, and myself lead a workshop on Open Science on Monday 21

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Why and where we search…
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

This quote is grabbed from a comment by Jean-Claude Bradley at bbgm in reply to my comment on Deepak’s post on my post on…. anyway my original comment was that our Wiki review would not be indexed on Google Scholar which is where people might go for literature searches Now this is an interesting point and it mirrors what I do. Jean-Claude has established that a lot of the ‘new’ traffic coming to UsefulChem comes from Google searches for
A big few weeks for open (notebook) science
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

So while I have been buried in the paper- and lab-work there has been quite a lot of interesting stuff going on. Pedro Beltrao has started an Open Notebook style project at Google Code which he describes in a post on Public Ramblings. This in interesting, because once again someone is using a different system as an Open Notebook. We have Wiki’s, Blogs, TeX based documents, and now, software version repositories being used.
Web2.0 tools for Social Sciences at AHM2007
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Having just posted that there didn’t seem to be too much of this we have a talk in the Social Sciences parallel session that covers exactly this.Pete Edwards talked (amongst other things) about ourSpaces, a tool providing a resource for sharing resources that can be tagged in all the expected Facebook style ways. He then went on to talk about how you record both data and how it is recorded i.e. methodology.
How do we build the science data commons? A proposal for a SciFoo session
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I realised the other day that I havenâ€™t written an exciteable blog post about getting an invitation to SciFoo! The reason for this is that I got overexcited over on FriendFeed instead and havenâ€™t really had time to get my head together to write something here.
Seeking advice and resources on Open Notebook Science
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

The following comment was posted to the ‘About‘ page by Sharon Sonenblum from Georgia Tech. Rather than leave it there where people might not see it I thought I would bring it to the front for everyone’s attention. Hi Sharon, great to see people interested in ONS! I am sure others will offer comments and suggestions but I will put my tuppence in first.
The Open Science Endurance Event – Team JC-C
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

So far weâ€™ve had a fun week. Jean-Claude arrived in the UK on Thursday last, followed up with a talk at Bath University to people at UKOLN on Friday. The talk kicked off an extended conversation which meant we were very late to lunch but it was great to follow up on issues from a different perspective to that. Jean-Claude will be making a screencast of the talk available on his Drexel-CoAs Podcast blog.
The OPEN Research Network Proposal – update and reflections
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Despite all evidence to the contrary, I have not in fact fallen off the end of the world. I have just been a little run off my feet over the last week or so. A quick weekend trip to the south of France (see here for probably rather too much detail) and a lot of other things, not least some wrangling over allowed costs for the grant, have been keeping me busy.
Variations in reproduction charges – the results are in!
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

I blogged the other day about the way charges for reproducing figures in review articles appear to have gone ballistic. At that stage I only had the cost for J Biol Chem which was a whopping $USD73 to reproduce a figure. I had three other images I was using and was expecting around $20 for them, based on the website that Science Direct points you at for permissions. Well I was wrong, they have now come back at $USD3 each.
Open Science Session at PSB 2009?
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Shirley Wu from Stanford left a comment on my New Years Resolutions post suggesting the possibility of a session on Open Science at the PSB meeting in Hawaii in 2009 which I wanted to bring to front for peoples attention. She also has a post on her new blog One Big Lab where she fleshes out the idea in a bit more detail and which is probably the best place to continue the discussion. Hi Shirley!
Science in the 21st Century
Authors: Neylon Cameron
Published: March 2024

Perimeter Institute by hungryhungrypixels (Picture found by Zemanta). Sabine Hossenfelder and Michael Nielsen of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics are organising a conference called ‘Science in the 21st Century‘ which was inspired in part by SciBarCamp.