Building blogs of Science

#SciFund is up at RocketHub!

Fabiana Kubke • Nov 02, 2011

• Funding,
• open access,
• open science,
• scifund

What if scientists were to crowd-source funding for their research? Yup, you heard right. Many scientists are asking the question: what would people, rather than established funding agencies, put their pennies on….. And the answer will be found through the SciFund challenge. 49 projects, 44 days left to raise money on RocketHub. From athlete’s foot, [...] … Read More

Open Access Week – 2011 – from Open Science Summit

Fabiana Kubke • Oct 28, 2011

• opean access week,
• open access,
• open science

Only a few days ago the Open Science Summit met in the US. As I was going through the videos I found these two which I think were interesting to highlight during Open Acess Week. (sorry, don’t seem to be able to embed from fora.tv!) The first one is from last year’s OSS, that provides [...] … Read More

Open Access Week – 2012

Fabiana Kubke • Oct 27, 2011

• open access,
• open science

We are now in the middle of Open Access Week – a good time to reflect on how widely we share that which we publish. The University of Auckland held an event where we got to hear from Helen Ross, Jean Rockel, Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Chris Paton about their experiences in Open Access publishing. The [...] … Read More

Drafting proposals in the open – sketching out project ideas

Fabiana Kubke • May 04, 2011

• creative commons,
• education,
• general science,
• open access,
• open education,
• open science,
• opinion,
• public

[also posted in http://www.science3point0.com/evomri/2011/05/03/drafting-proposals-in-the-open-sketching-out-project-ideas/] This post is licenced under a CC0 Recapitulation “Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose.” Vannevar Bush, 1945 As announced last week, we – Fabiana Kubke and Daniel Mietchen – are currently participating in the Getting your [...] … Read More

Science lessons from 8 year old children

Fabiana Kubke • Dec 22, 2010

• behaviour,
• biology,
• education,
• general science,
• public

[Cross posted from Talking Teaching] Ed Yong in Not Exactly Rocket science alerted me to an article published in Biological Letters Biology Letters from the Royal Society. I will not discuss the content of the article, Ed Yong has (as usual) done a wonderful job. I would like instead to share the ‘concept’ of the article. [...] … Read More

‘Tis the season…

Fabiana Kubke • Dec 19, 2010

• education,
• KiwiFoo,
• open access,
• open education,
• open science,
• SciFoo

…to file my Annual Performance Review. Nothing makes me shiver as much as the Dean’s email reminding us that it is time to file our Annual Performance Reviews (APRs). This year shivering does not begin to express the feeling I got upon receiving that email. What have I achieved this year? ‘Nothing’ was the first [...] … Read More

Opening up [I think]

Fabiana Kubke • Sep 23, 2010

• creative commons,
• education,
• Neuroscience,
• open access,
• open education,
• open science,
• opinion,
• public,
• SciFoo

What does it mean, in science, to be open? I don’t know. I wrote a while back, that while I endorse the principles of ‘openness‘, I struggle with the issue of ‘how‘. Since then I have been trying to listen and learn. [Or, better said, shut up and listen.] I started trying to see what [...] … Read More

#SciFoo lightning talk [Reloaded] — Part 3

Fabiana Kubke • Aug 25, 2010

• biology,
• history of science,
• Neuroscience,
• SciFoo,
• talks

(Slides 6,7) I have always been fascinated by the series of studies in electrophysiology that led to our current understanding of how electrical signalling takes place in neurons. And no collection of classical electrophysiology is complete without the 1952 article by AL Hodgkin and AF Huxley on the sodium and potassium currents in the giant [...] … Read More

#SciFoo lightning talk [reloaded] — Part 2

Fabiana Kubke • Aug 17, 2010

• history of science,
• Neuroscience,
• SciFoo,
• talks

(Slides 3,4,5) One of the articles we read in my biophysics class was a 1942 article by Curtis and Cole. At the time, those working on the electrical properties of neurons were in agreement that during the action potential the membrane did not simply ‘depolarize’ (i.e., lost its electrical polarization) but that it rather reverted [...] … Read More

#SciFoo Lightning talk [reloaded] — Part 1

Fabiana Kubke • Aug 12, 2010

• At,
• history of science,
• Neuroscience,
• SciFoo,
• talks

At SciFoo I got a chance to give a lightning talk. These are 5 minute talks, similar to Ignites and PechaKuchas. It is fair to say that is was nerve-wracking! And 5 minutes seem like an eternity when you are that nervous! But I am rehashing it here as an extended version of the 5 [...] … Read More