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As reported in Heather Morrison's blog. The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics .

I am following with a sense of detached fascination UBC researcher Dr. Rosie Redfield's saga of her quest to get her CIHR funded article published in a scientific journal and also made available Open Access . While her blog is not one dedicated to Open Access but instead to her research (" Thinking about our research into the mechanism, function and evolution of DNA uptake by Haemophilus influenzae and other bacteria "), it is clear that she is spending more time and accruing more frustration dealing with this particular issue than she would want to be, or should be... Update: 2008 Nov 12 : It seems that the Dr. Redfield has given up on Elsevier, and has decided to stop publishing articles with this publisher: " ... I won't be submitting to any Elsevier journals in the future ."

This Oct 14 is Open Access Day and the 5th publishing anniversary of the first PLoS journal, so the PloS and others are celebrating both with a number of events, T-shirts, buttons , blog competition, flyer , downloadable posters, bookmark, etc: Spread the word - downloadables, creatables, educational resources T-shirts, buttons and posters - freebies (No T-shirts left :-( ) Participants from around the world organizing large and small local events PS. I wonder if they will be releasing the T-Shirt designs with a Creative Commons license, so anyone can print a T-shirt?

As reported on the Science Blogging 2008: London forum , this clever challenge was announced at the London Science Blogging Conference August 30 2008. Related: Good summary of Timo Hannay 's closing sum-up of the conference and the same blog's ( Humans in Science ) entry on the conference proper.

I Survived the Large Hadron Collider ;-)

The following excerpt from an ad for Scientific Data Management Specialist suggests it bodes well for the prospects of this (relatively) nascent profession: Processing, soliciting, and providing assistance with data submissions for scientific data from genome sequencing and genotyping experiments into existing databases , analysis pipelines and associated data flows. Developing and improving the infrastructure supporting these systems. Required Skills Formal Education PhD Scripting experience in perl or related language Experience with SQL Experience with LINUX/UNIX Ability to use Microsoft Excel and related applications Proven record solving related problems Desired Skills Knowledge of genetics, especially human genetics Experience with large data sets XML/XSLT and related web based tools Experience with array data, especially expression or genotyping data C/C++ Experience with grid computing (LSF,SunGrid, etc.) QA filtering of genotype data (HWE, non-Mendelian segregation)...

I am excited at the release of Katta , a technology built on Lucene , Zookeeper and Hadoop allowing for Lucene indexes to be distributed across a number of nodes for distributed & fault tolerant search. Note that it does not create the indexes, simply deploys existing indexes onto this infrastructure.