how and why i use blogging

+How and why I use blogging and twitter for science Lex

Nederbragt

@lexnederbragt

CEES Late Lunch Talk, Monday May 7th

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This talk could change your life

WARNING

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Apologies to http://garybizzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/character1.jpg

Reputation

+What if

you could publish more often

get instant feedback

increase your network

build your reputation

+Let’s get started

How it started for me

http://www.schoox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/start.png

+I became good at something

newbler 454 data

+I wanted to my

knowledge

http://howdoitradestocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/share-ideas1.jpg

SHARE

+I started a blog

http://fairfieldwriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/blogging2.jpg

+What is a blog ?

personal, public journal

entries: ‘posts’

reverse chronological order

single individual or small group

single subject

Based on the wikipedia definition

+My blog at wordpress.com

contig.wordpress.com

+It worked!

Four to six thousand visitsEACH MONTH

+Comments

+Referrals

+Praise

Thanks a lot for explaining [a certain output file] content!

It really helps me

Thanks for the post, this blog is a great Newbler resource!

Can I contribute with some money?

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Great, but so what?

Are you getting anything out of it?

http://www.betternotolder.com/42/gonna-do/so-what-pic/

+The Internet

as a temple of knowledge

+The Internet

SHARINGTaking Giving back

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http://garybizzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/character1.jpg

Reputation

+Another blog

flxlexblog.wordpress.com

+Critical look at new data

+Critical comments

+Praise

http://mira-assembler.sourceforge.netBy Bastien Chevreux

The blog of Lex Nederbragt is [...] very down to earth and he knows a bluff when he sees it ...

and is not afraid to call it (be it from IonTorrent, PacBio or 454).

The analysis he did on a couple of Ion data sets have saved me quite some time

http://mira-assembler.sourceforge.net/docs/DefinitiveGuideToMIRA.html

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http://garybizzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/character1.jpg

Reputation

+“You want to talk one on one?”

Bloggers as ambassadors

+Previewing new data

+Blogging

Very good tool for sharing in science

Builds reputation

Increases your network

Allows you to PUBLISH small findings that would never have made it into a full paper or would have been outdated once the paper came out

+Blogging

Writing exercise

Journal club blog @ CEES?

+Blogging

Takes time

Shouldn’t become the marketing department for a company

+Science blogs

Describing new papers

Critical comments

Science news

Conference summaries

Fun facts

Etc. etc…

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SHARING

+What is ?

Short message service

140 characters

Tweets and tweeting ‘open access’

Follow people’s tweets - timeline

Credit due: http://www.slideshare.net/kbradnam/twitter-101-an-introduction-to-twitter#

+Step 1 – get an account

NOT necessary!

Since June 2009,

@lexnederbragt is my twitter ‘handle’

+ Step 2 – find interesting people to follow

I follow @KjetilLysneVoje and get to see his tweets in my timeline

+Step 3 – be followed

@KjetilLysneVoje also follows me

+Step 3 – be followed

+Step 4 – start reading and posting tweets

Following helps filter all tweets

+What to do with twitter

read content

Tweets often contain links

+What to do with twitter

write content

Links you insert are automatically shortened

+What to do with twitter

redistribute content

Post to your timeline

+What to do with twitter

communicate

Message to me

Click here to answer

+What to do with twitter

follow conferences

hashtag

+What to do with twitter

+What twitter is NOT

Facebook

lengthy discussions

for old news

+Who is on twitter

News services

+Who is on twitter

Science journals

+What do you find on twitter

News – fast!

+What do you find on twitter

Lot’s of noise

http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/05/isnt_the_long_t.html

+What do you find on twitter

Science:

science news

new scientific articles

new blog posts

conference tweeting

+What do you find on twitter

+What do you find on twitter

+What do you find on twitter

+What do you find on twitter

+What do you find on twitter

+What do you find on twitter

+What do you find on twitter

+What do I find on twitter

finding out about new articles

finding out about new blog posts

following a conference without being there

news items relevant for my research

networking

announcing new blog posts

+By the way

+Cool stuff that happened

+Cool stuff that happened

@norseqcenter

+Cool stuff that happened

+Cool stuff that happened

flxlexblog.wordpress.com

+Cool stuff that happened

+Cool stuff that happened

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http://garybizzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/character1.jpg

Reputation

+Not so cool stuff that might

happen

Over-following

Distracting

Addictive

+ SHARING

+Excuses for not sharing

Too busy

Need to publish

Don’t get anything out of it

+Science 2.0

Shareor

Suffer

+Science 2.0

+Science 2.0

+Science 1.0

"Right now the time lag between

finishing a paper

and the research community seeing it

is between 6 months and 2 years."

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review/

+BUT, we need peer review!

http://genomicenterprise.com/blog/2010/09/03/peer-review-of-articles-in-science-politically-correct/

+Peer review will follow!

http://michelleaheath.com/2009/02/pie-and-the-secret-of-sharing/

Need a redefinition of ‘Impact (factor)’

+Science 2.0

Shareor

Suffer

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Thank you