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By jdupuis on January 10, 2011.
  • Research intelligence - Rip it up and start again
  • David Thornburg on Open-Source Textbooks
  • "Beginnings Are Always Messy": Thoughts on Transliteracy and Inquiry from a Learning Advocate
  • Student Blogging about Physics
  • Follow-up: Transliteracy, Theory, and Scholarly Language
  • Lib-Value Website Now Available
  • The Rise of 'Convergence' Science
  • How Will Students Communicate?
  • Study: Labour market outcomes of Canadian doctoral graduates
  • Predictions 2010: The Growth of Intimacy
  • 'Saturday Night Live,' Floor Wax, and the Life of the Mind
  • 10 Things Facebook Won't Say
  • Going beyond a single scientific journal or scientific community
  • leaving Nature, now freelance (on why it's hard to create "Facebook for scientists")
  • PLoS (and NPG) redefine the scholarly publishing landscape
  • Nature staying afloat with bulk publishing?
  • New NPG open access pub for 2011: Scientific Reports. Technically-sound work, no impact threshold
  • PLoS One envy
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