Mondays are catch-up days
I usually take the weekend off from blogging and RSS reading, preferring to play really obscene amounts of EVE Online. This usually means that I spend a fair amount of my Monday morning just catching up on the pile that accumulates in my “unread items” list in Google Reader.
Here are some highlights:
Harold Varmus’ interview on NPR’s Science Friday was a nice public discussion of Open Access. He talks about the background of PLoS, the new NIH delayed release policy, and the OA movement in general. As others have noted, the very first listener question asks about peer review in OA journals. Also as noted in the link above, peer review and OA are entirely separate issues, and I think Dr. Varmus could have been a bit more clear here. He also at the end of his answer throws in a sentence or two about the source of funding for articles which is a bit misleading. Regardless, I think overall it was a positive interview, and I recommend listening to it if you haven’t already. Also, the ScienceCommons blog has a few more related links.
Next, take a break from reading for a bit and watch Bill Maher interviewing Richard Dawkins (via Greg Laden)
Also, if you have some time, check out this screencast on Open Notebook Science from Jean-Claude Bradley (via The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics):
