Tag Archives: social media

Presentations at .astronomy 4 now on-line!

Posted on August 24, 2012 by astrocompute

Many of the presentations given at the .astronomy 4 conference have now been posted on-line. The conference was held in Heidelberg, Germany in July, and I gave an overview of some of the many highlights a few weeks ago. This … Continue reading →

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Science: It’s Universal

Posted on July 20, 2012 by astrocompute

This video was produced and directed by Amanda Bauer at the .Astronomy 4 meeting. Astronomers giving their thoughts on what science is and why they do it. <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/45711303″>Science: It’s Universal</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user611471″>amanda bauer</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p> Read about … Continue reading →

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Creating a Scientific Visualization

Posted on June 14, 2012 by astrocompute

Here is a very useful video from the Advanced Visualization Laboratory of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) on the process of creating a scientific visualization, in this case a fly-through movie of a molecular cloud, detailed enough to … Continue reading →

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The Public Library of Science: Open Access Journals, and Advice For Scientists

Posted on June 11, 2012 by astrocompute

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license.  I learned of this organization the other day from … Continue reading →

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Citizen Science: Contributions to Astronomy Research  

Posted on February 26, 2012 by astrocompute

This is the title of an interesting paper by Carol Christian et al., in which they discuss the role of citizen science in modern astronomical research.  The authors adopt the definition of  citizen science as ” active involvement of a … Continue reading →

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The Astrophysics Source Code Library

Posted on July 8, 2011 by astrocompute

The Astrophysics Source Code Library is a free on-line reference library of astrophysical source codes  used to generate results published in or submitted to a refereed journal. The library housed on the discussion forum for Astronomy Picture of the Day … Continue reading →

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An Example Of How Web 2.0 Can Be Used In Professional Astronomy

Posted on December 18, 2010 by astrocompute

I discuss in this post some ideas for how Web 2.0 can be used in professional astronomy, and the example I will used is that of building collaborative astronomical image mosaics from a collection of input images with the Montage … Continue reading →

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Report From The U.K. All-Hands e-Science Meeting

Posted on September 25, 2010 by astrocompute

I attended this meeting, held in Cardiff, Wales, from 13-16 September 2010.  This is the ninth  annual UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010), with the theme of e-Science:  novel research, new science and enduring impact. My previous two posts … Continue reading →

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25 Things for Researchers and Social Media!

Posted on September 15, 2010 by astrocompute

This week, I am attending the U.K. e-Science All Hands Meeting in Cardiff,  Wales, and I will write blog posts about talks I enjoyed. I have often wondered about the use of social media and Web 2.0  in scientific research, … Continue reading →

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