Dear Open Science Friends -- I am going up for tenure this semester at the University of New Mexico, Dept. Physics. External letters are one of the most important components of my dossier. I am thinking that a co-signed letter from friends I've met in the Open Science community would be highly valued by those people evaluating my tenure case.
I am hoping that some of you would be willing to draft and co-sign a letter of support to be sent to my tenure committe--if so, I would be deeply grateful. Based on e-interactions with me, and in-person at ScienceOnline2010/2011 and ScienceCommons 2010 (Seattle), I think maybe some of you would have positive things to say about my research (I consider our lab's work in open notebook science, open data, etc. to be research) and service (promoting open science being external service).
- Steve Koch
Thank you everyone! Jonathan Eisen has graciously signed and mailed in a snail mail copy of the open letter to my committee. I don't expect to hear anything about it (positive/negative/neutral) until December, maybe January. I will of course update you with any news. Thank you again, everyone: so much support made me feel great!
- Steve Koch
Results: Once again, reproducibility was voted to be the most important thing to good science by the students. I tried not to influence the vote, at least consciously, but I'd already talked about good notebooks and open notebook science. Interestingly, students told me that reproducibility has been beaten into their heads by gradeschool and highschool science teachers, which surprised me, pleasantly. Lots of great arguments were made by the students, making me feel very optimistic about this generation of scientists. One student (I think Skylar) made a good argument that "verification by peers" encompassed reproducibility and many of the other nominations.
- Steve Koch
Anthony's open notebook science entry on very preliminary, possibly exciting results with tobacco seeds in deuterium-depleted water Fwd: Preliminary Tobacco Seed Growth “Results”: Those are images of the first batch of samples (Dark Virginia seeds, ... http://t.co/aI1zhjD (via http://ff.im/KAJP1)
Bummer, Steve. No apology needed imo -- everyone has a mis-step now and then, especially with deadlines pressing, but few are willing to let the whole world learn from their mistakes in detail.
- Bill Hooker