I have submitted an abstract to give a TED style talk at the conference named above. This conference is a new endeavor that is almost completely student organized and hopefully will feature students from around the state of New Mexico. I’m presenting on open notebook science and will be giving a brief overview of the field and demonstrating examples from my own notebook and showing how an open notebook community would hypothetically work with examples from the Junior Lab course.

Here is my abstract:

Scientific information is published in peer reviewed journals as a complete account. Unfortunately there is nothing complete about the process. Frequently intermediate and supplementary experimental data is excluded, methods are not nearly detailed enough, and results are manipulated for appearance. Open notebook science aims to be a complete account of the scientific process: from ideas and planning, to experimental setup and protocol design, all the way through data interpretation and commentary. Here I talk about tools to create an open notebook, effective use of the medium, and how social interaction creates a community using examples from my own open notebook and from Physics 308L Junior Lab.

 

I’ll be developing the talk in the coming days and publishing it on SlideShare. If the abstract gets accepted, then I’ll be presenting either April 23 or 24. More details to come.

On top of this, I’ll be paneling with some other students to discuss effective ways to put together a talk and preparing slides and media for a presentation on April 16 from 10am-12pm. This is part of a pre-conference symposium to help students develop skills for presenting, since many students may be presenting for the first time at the NMGPSC (this conference).