My #SciFund Proposal (a work in progress)
I just wanted to get this up today. Here is my #SciFund proposal on Google Docs. It is publicly open for comments. I won’t have a rough draft done until later today or early tomorrow so be sure to...
View ArticlePresentation: “Open Notebook Science: Research in Real-Time”– Outline
I changed the name of my talk on Tuesday from “Open Notebook Science” to “Open Notebook Science: Research in Real-Time.” I figured most students wouldn’t know or care about open notebook science on...
View ArticleStuff for Alex to do this week
Monday: meet with me to talk about the plan for the week Tuesday create starter culture of e. coli come to my talk at 1:15pm in the SUB (Santa Ana B, I believe) Wednesday do 1:10 dilution of starter...
View ArticleThe Open IGERT Proposal
I’ve been saying for months that I want to submit a proposal to the NSF for an open science IGERT. Well the call for such a proposal dropped into my lab a week ago and UNM is doing a limited...
View ArticleYeast and E. coli Growth: What’s next?
There are several things I can do with the yeast experiments: Another but longer time trial experiment (data every hour) Time Trials in larger quantities: maybe 100ml or 50ml – I want to see if the...
View Article5k for science (and other fundraising endeavors)
With all the hoopla for crowdfunding science, #SciFund and petridish.org (among others) I started wondering, “How come there was no traditional form of raising money for science?” And by traditional I...
View ArticleDeuterium exchange analysis experimental planning
The future direction of the experiment using the ring down cavity spectroscopy device will be planned here. This should be a fun collaboration between Scott Jasechko (Earth and Planetary Sciences) and...
View ArticlePlanning for #scio13 – The impact of electronic/open notebooks on science...
I’m starting this thread for anyone to comment on to drop some ideas about what we should all talk about when it comes to electronic and open notebook science. I have some goals for the session that...
View ArticleD2O Adaptation Try 3 – Project Plan
Now that the lab is clean, I’m going to collect my thoughts and write a plan to follow. While the first two experiments were unsuccessful, there were some interesting results that can’t be disregarded....
View ArticleDefense Outline
Just over a week away now… Introduction What is D2O? The history of D2O Gilbert Lewis: purification biological effects The hypothesis Joseph Katz various experiments Uses of D2O NMR, mass spec The need...
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