Steve Koch

I must admit that whenever I see these types of reference it does wind me up a bit. Clearly it's great to give attribution but I kind of think that references should pass some practical means of verifiability. - Dan Hagon

@Bill, I think the idea that a reference MUST be something revisitable is too constricting. It negates the value and contribution that informal communication makes to research. There's also a terrific history of such "informal" conversations being prime motivators in getting new science done and current work improved. Have a reference that refers to a publication doesn't guarantee the author's interpretation of the publication is sound anymore than interpretation following a conversation. I do agree that it is difficult for the reader, but most of the personal comm references I've seen refer to very specific points and not large-scale change makers. The large scale stuff is usually taken care of in acknowledgments b/c the scope of the help exceeds what can be usefully referenced. - Mickey Schafer

Brilliant stuff Steve. Thanks for continuing to spread the word. Lots happening on the dev side to make it an even more useful tool for you and your students. - science3point0

Wouldn't it be cool if this happens on a planetary scale somewhere. - Andrew Lang

D-enriched is actually pretty cheap, I'm guessing because of use in nuclear reactors. You can get 10 ml of 99.9% D water for like ten bucks which would be plenty for tobacco seeds. And you wouldn't need it that pure. D-depleted is more expensive, though, I think. Not sure if following link works for D-enriched sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/ProductDetail.do?D7=0&N5=SEARCH_CONCAT_PNO%7CBRAND_KEY&N4=151882%7CALDRICH&N25=0&QS=ON&F=SPEC - Steve Koch

Brilliant Steve - Wishing you the best of luck with it! - science3point0

Yes Defense Threat Reduction Agency. I submitted a white paper couple years ago with open science that was rejected, but without feedback. I am currently funded by a DTRA basic research grant and we are conducting the project completely openly with knowledge of the project manager. I don't get a lot of feedback, but if anything, he is enthusiastic about the openness. DTRA basic research program truly seems to promote basic and open research, as far as I can tell. - Steve Koch

Wendy Tsao talks about making Kiney doll for our lab members. They gave me the doll for Christmas 2010, and Andy used it as a demo in his recent dissertation defense. - Steve Koch

"It was agreed at February's Editorial Policy meeting that BioMed Central journals would be offered the option of adding a new section to their research articles, 'Availability of supporting data'. An increasing number of journals, such as BMC Research Notes, are keen to include links in articles, in a consistent place, to the data set(s) supporting the results reported in articles. When the new is feature available editors can begin encouraging - or requiring - supporting data to be publicly available as a condition of publication. We understand it is not always possible or appropriate to share or publish raw data so the new section will be optional. Please get in touch to find out more. And since the meeting the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) have included BioMed Central as an endorser of the ICMJE Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts." - Steve Koch

Congratubloodylations! - science3point0

congrats! - Björn Brembs

#IuseWhateverDaggonedHashtagsIwantToUse #SoThere :-) - Ordinarybug Heather

It's a huge file (with embedded movies), but you can download his complete dissertation as a PDF from our server: http://kochlab.org/files... All of this information is on the wiki pages as well. - Steve Koch

Congratatulations, Andy! He passed his exam today, just minor revisions to dissertation required. http://www.openwetware.org/wiki... - Steve Koch

I searched the document for "movie" and checked all figures that came up that way. The first two (1.3 and 1.6) did not display for me, all the rest (1.7, 1.9, 2.7, 2.10, 2.11, 2.13, 2.14, 4.2) went fine. - Daniel Mietchen

I also read the "open science" chapter and wish every dissertation would contain such a chapter with reflections about the way in which the research was performed _and communicated_. - Daniel Mietchen

It really makes it feel like the 10 minutes to upload was worth it to share a little bit of what I learned during 3 hours of research when my daughter came down with the "amoxicillin rash." Seems even cooler to me that three of the articles are in languages I can't read! - Steve Koch

Yeah, agreed, uploaded a few myself, nice getting them used on WP, especially if uploaded pics have a good quality and contrast ratio +1. - joergkurtwegner

A very interesting optics phenomenon that I don't understand. Didn't have many publications when I looked for them in 1999. But that was during the era when you had to walk to the library to look stuff up. Seriously! You did! - Steve Koch

Interesting science that would otherwise never see the light of day, absolutely brilliant Steve. - science3point0

Thanks, Mark! I added links to the FigShare page on both the wikipedia article and the wikimedia commons image page. Not sure what that would accomplish, but seemed like a good idea. :) - Steve Koch

BenchFly / flavors.me are hosting a contest for best scientist homepage. Check it out and place a vote. Of course, I want you to vote with your own heart. But I also want you to have Andy in your heart for all of his #openscience contributions and, therefore, vote for Andy! - Steve Koch

Sorry, there may have been a problem voting earlier today. Please give it another try, thanks! - Steve Koch

Approx. 6 months until I submit tenure dossier. Probably should give some talks around department explaining all this stuff. - Steve Koch

Any plan for Mendeley to allow adding data sets and / or figures? I.e., things citable with handles that don't have PDFs... - Steve Koch

Here's a question for you: since one person has already completed the assignment and provided a link, are you concerned about people copying? If it's not for assessment they're only cheating themselves, of course, but different teachers have different approaches to that issue. - Bill Hooker

It's a really small class, and they all know that I'm most concerned about them getting experience and learning. They know that I expect them to look at each other's work if they want to, just that they should give credit when credit is due. In the other class (Junior Lab), that worked very well. In this class, I've been struggling just to keep up with the content (new class for me) and haven't been stressing citations enough. But I can easily tell whether a student did any exploration on their own when they did the assignment, and they know that's what I'm looking for. To be less long-winded, as you pointed out, I don't care at all about catching someone "cheating," unless it's sort of an accident. If they want to cheat themselves, then I stop caring about them. - Steve Koch

Steve - you can already attach all sorts of supplementary info such as presentations, spreadsheets, and images to items, but you'd need to make the entry manually if you wanted to cite it separately. - Mr. Gunn