So my trip to Florida was amazing, but I didn’t get a whole lot done in terms of science while I was there. The resort I stayed out had no internet (surprising isn’t it), and I only managed to read one paper while I was there, which only made me ask questions instead of answering them. I did manage to read halfway through Michael Nielson’s book: Reinventing Discovery (which I keep thinking is actually titled Rediscovering Science).

The book is pretty good and it is fun to hear the stories of groups who have succeeded in implementing an open network approach in their fields. It has given me a few ideas that I think can greatly impact open notebook science and my PhD quest.

I’ve also decided to write up summaries of papers I’ve read here. Mostly it will be for my use, but perhaps someone someday will be able to use the summaries. I won’t republish anything in the papers (like figures or quotes) for copyright reasons, but I will reference them and of course properly cite the article I’m summarizing.

On top of that I’ll be starting up some new experiments this week. I’m going to do a large scale DDW experiment and another run of the Repeating Crumley experiment. I’m also looking to start doing DDW tests with other organisms, but need to refresh my molecular bio techniques.

It’s good to be back and I can’t wait to get going again.