Nature Publishing Group is launching a new data journal called “Scientific Data”. The editorial announcement in nature invites submissions of “data descriptors” to the journal, which are described as: Data Descriptor articles are fully fledged, peer-reviewed scientific publications, and will be listed in major indexing services, thereby giving authors the credit they deserve for sharing…
This week’s edition of Nature featured a comment by Drew Purves and colleagues titled “Ecosystems: Time to model all life on Earth”, in which they propose that we need a new model type, general ecosystem models (GEM), that describe the interplay of all major organism types on earth. They say that GEMs […] could capture…
Our new perspective paper on “Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data – an inverse perspective” is now available online at the Journal of Biogeography (see also this post by my coauthor James Dyke). The paper is a part of a special issue on distribution models “The ecological niche as a window to biodiversity” that will…
Justitia, 1556, by Maarten van Heemskerck In my last post about the Higgs rumors, I referred to an excellent blog post by Matt Strassler that features a long comment exchange between him and Peter Woit about the legitimation for leaking information about the experimental results before the data analysis has been completed. One thing that…
In a correspondence in tomorrow’s edition of Nature, “Data accessibility: Getting a handle on biological data”, Dave Roberts & Alex Hardisty call for contributions to an initiative that prepares a white paper on data accessibility in the biological sciences, intended for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 funding call in 2013. The aim is to contribute…
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