Learning with the Fang

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Since my earliest tinkerings with the social web, I have thought the digital trails we write to the internet would make ideal data for anthropologists to study. My instincts regularly ‘give me feelings’ that the things I experience through my online networks are profound and perhaps mirror the inner workings of my brain or maybe [...]

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Spent a very pleasant, engaging and thought provoking day at the University of Adelaide ‘Research Day‘ hosted by the school of agriculture, food and wine.

The highlight for me was the short, punchy ‘3 slide, 6 minute’ presentations by students. While some of the language was rather esoteric (to say the least), each and every [...]

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I reckon the trend toward more open research is both inevitable and beneficial, but methinks the journey will be both messy and at times painfully destructive. Working for Microsoft during the open source revolution left me with scars that twinge when I see familiar patterns playing out in the scientific research community.

Watching chemists like Jean [...]

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