9/08/2008 PERMALINK
Dogmatic old science geezers holding back open science future Many young scientists and older scientists that are less concerned with protecting their own prerogatives and more concerned with advancing science are fed up with the dogmatic old, net-clueless, geezers that are delaying the move to open science. Kudos to those that value the acceleration of scientific progress enough to risk the ire of the geezers to speak out.

Despite the value - and the impact - that blogging can have in communicating science to the public or in engaging the community to discuss ideas, university hiring committees and others who evaluate scientists are more likely than not to have a negative view of it. Time spent not researching is considered time wasted ... more

And even more kudos to those that are simply bypassing the old farts and their ossified institutions by creating the open science tools of tomorrow, see: Open source science is the wave of the future and The wikiomics movement is the future of science ~ open