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IRBs and Clean Secrets

By alex | Published: 12/8/2011
There’s a comment piece I wrote that appears in today’s issue of the journal Nature that talks a bit about the role of open data and IRBs. But I worry that perhaps in the number of iterations it made before publication the main point got muddied a bit. So here it is: Funding agencies and [...]
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And I Blog…

By alex | Published: 3/25/2011
Certainly not the first time a Twitter thread has led to a bumper sticker: michaelzimmer: Right now: I supposed to be working on a journal article (tenure), but instead I’m writing a blog post (impact). halavais: ∴ impact ≠ tenure RT @michaelzimmer: I supposed to be working on a journal article (tenure), but instead I’m writing [...]
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The New University Press

By alex | Published: 6/16/2010
The future of the book, and of the publishing industry, has far less to do with what you produce, and far more to do with enabling an ongoing conversation. This isn’t news to any of you, you live it. But it’s easy, in the midst of a project, to get seduced by the myth that [...]
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Rethinking the human subjects process

By alex | Published: 6/14/2010
Get a group of social scientists together to talk about prospective research and it won’t take long before the conversation turns to the question of human subjects board approval. Most researchers have a war story, and all have an opinion of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), the committee in US universities that must approve any [...]
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#g20 Tweets

By alex | Published: 10/6/2009
I‘ve created this blog entry mainly as a way of providing access to some files related to the work Maria Garrido & I have been doing on the twitter conversation surrounding the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh in September of 2009. Briefly, our aim was to examine Tweets that included the #g20, and figure out how [...]
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Shifted Pace

By alex | Published: 6/23/2009
Got an IM from someone checking in a few weeks back. He had gathered that my work had “changed pace.” I wondered what that meant, and he suggested that I had slowed down. Now, I am naturally lazy–a trait I am trying to more actively cultivate, but I gather he had figured that because I [...]
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Tweeting MiT6

By alex | Published: 4/28/2009
The hashtag for the sixth Media in Transition conference got a lot of action during the conference and the period before and after. In the last couple of days, John Maxwell has posted an archive of these tweets, and Jean Burgess posted an updated word cloud. I figured I would fill in with some more [...]
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