Science in Society

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Science in Society

Science in Society
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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

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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
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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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