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...so do great things right?

But what are the risks...?

If a million postdocs repeat a few million experiments… http://ﬂickr.com/photos/heymans/480396810/

And 25% of those don’t work… http://ﬂickr.com/photos/cliche/120070310/

…how much taxpayer’s money is that? http://ﬂickr.com/photos/luismimunoznajar/2093185804/

more science funding...?

...or another hospital? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/27337026@N03/3088172200 CC-BY

UK scientists spend £12B of the taxpayer’s money http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2143212474 CC-BY

...and government expects a return on that investment...

.....personal risks http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/sharif/2435403527/ CC-BY

...failure

...stress http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/stuartpilbrow/3345896050 CC-BY-SA

Everyone wants the same thing.

Maximum impact... http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/amardilo/3231427553 CC-BY

...for minimum effort http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cane_rosso/2166990212 CC-BY

How do you maximise efﬁciency in generating impact for your research?

What is... ttp://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/schnurrbart/43568532/ CC-BY-SA ...?

Too much to read... http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/orinrobertjohn/2188277801 CC-BY

...making the right connections http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/mararie/3313582639/ CC-BY-SA

In the last ﬁve years...? http://ﬂickr.com/photos/stewart/461099066/ CC-BY

...in the past 24 hours?

http://twitter.com/lostmoya/statuses/2314980897

http://is.gd/thMB

Open record... http://onschallenge.wikispaces.com/Exp026

...free services...anyone can participate.... http://tinyurl.com/ons-challenge-spreadsheet

...and people do, bringing new skills and ideas http://oru.edu/cccda/sl/descriptorspace/ds.php

http://oru.edu/cccda/sl/descriptorspace/ds.php

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Drexel/165/178/24

The Polymath Project

27 January 2009 http://gowers.wordpress.com/

27 January 2009 February 1 2009 http://gowers.wordpress.com/

27 January 2009 February 1 2009 March 10 2009 http://gowers.wordpress.com/

http://twitter.com/EvoMRI/statuses/2316110674

http://friendfeed.com

http://tinyurl.com/dku869

Pay it forward...

...build your network

What about the public?

“...I worked at a 300-person nonproﬁt research institute with a small library. So there I was—a scientist and a taxpayer—desperate to read the results of work that I helped pay for...And yet either I could not get the papers or I had to pay to read them without knowing if they would be helpful...” Eisen JA (2008) PLoS Biology 2.0. PLoS Biol 6(2): e48

http://reddit.com/top 10:46 GMT 27/1/09

Public engagement...? http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/danielmorris/271592974/ CC-BY-SA

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/rbowen/2261256961/ What if she wasn’t just looking?

Not just papers, but ideas, web pages, data, materials, software

And if the cited objects are not open and available?

Research impact = Google PageRank

High PageRank = Wired into the network

Available

You can follow...

...or lead

http://twitter.com/kjhaxton/statuses/2315252690

Enormous challenges...

Problems... http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/wili/1999071010 CC-BY

...opportunities http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/traveleden/3172237692 CC-BY

Make your work available

Let others build...

...to increase your impact

Be clear..and in context

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Build your network...

...its your most valuable asset

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