Adam Turner Helping researchers communicate with the world

9May/120

Korean names in scientific articles

http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/files/scienceeditor/v28n5p156-157.pdf

6May/120

Analytics Reveal 13 New Basketball Positions | Playbook | Wired.com

Muthu Alagappan is a Stanford University senior, a basketball fan and an intern at Ayasdi, a data visualization company. Ayasdi takes huge amounts of info like tumor samples and displays it in interactive shapes that highlight patterns like genetic markers that indicate a likelihood of ovarian cancer. It’s called topological data analysis, and it can be applied to sports, too.

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What other applications could there be? Citation patterns?

3May/120

Using a thesaurus to build vocab and improve paraphrase What is shift f7

Shift F7, or more correctly written SHIFT+F7, is a shortcut key in Microsoft Word to open the built in Thesaurus. If you happen to have a word highlighted or simply have the cursor within a word then when the thesaurus is opened, it will automatically display all the synonyms for that word.

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2May/120

Tomighty – Desktop timer for Pomodoro Technique users

Tomighty is a convenient, easy to use, eye candy desktop application that helps you organize and execute your tasks in the Pomodoro way.

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About the technique

The Pomodoro Technique is a simple way to boost your productivity when performing mind-consuming tasks. It helps you keep yourself focused while reducing mental exhaustion. Read more about it at the official website.

1May/120

Tomighty Is a Simple, Elegant Pomodoro Timer for Boosting Productivity

Tomighty Is a Simple, Elegant Pomodoro Timer for Boosting ProductivityWindows/Mac/Linux: Fans of the Pomodoro technique for productivity work in focused, timed bursts. Tomighty is an easy to use, pretty desktop timer to help you organize your tasks with this method.

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26Apr/120

Evernote Peek | Evernote

Evernote PeekTurn your notes, audio and image in Evernote into study materials with Evernote Peek. Prepare for a quiz or brush up on a language by simply lifting your iPad’s Smart Cover, or by using our virtual smart cover.

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22Mar/120

Op-Ed: How Traditional Publishing Hurts Scientific Progress | Wired Science | Wired.com

A battle that has raged for over a decade between advocates of open science and publishers of traditional scientific journals is coming to a head. Eighty five percent of published papers remain locked behind subscription pay walls, accessible only to those affiliated with universities and other large research institutions. But new journals that make everything they publish freely available are growing rapidly.

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16Jan/120

Autotext – Clipboard Utility – Snippets Organizer

Organize frequently used text snippets.Expand abbreviations as you type.Launch programs with text shortcuts.Auto-complete repetitive phrases.Quick access to the Windows Clipboard History.Correct spelling mistakes in any application.

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10Jan/120

digitalresearchtools / FrontPage

Digital Research Tools DiRT This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars particularly in the humanities and social sciences conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.

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3Jan/120

Articles – Bitesize Bio

We scientists are all so focussed on getting our work published that many of us seem to forget something very important; that publication is just the beginning. After publication is when our manuscripts really have to do their essential work of communicating our science to our peers. If no-one reads the manuscript,

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