A startup to help you fast-track you grant application process. The hard thing here is building a robust and clean pipeline of info about grants. https://www.instrumentl.com/ ... (more)

It’s really encouraging to see the concept of open notebook Sciecne still being picked and adopted. It looks like the researchers are actively making their results available (https://opennotebook.thesgc.org). http://hbgdki.org/ongoing-experiment-extreme-open-science-announced-structural-genomics-consortium/ ... (more)

This post shows how to execute compiled commands in your IPython environments. That can allow you to, for example, pull in FORTRAN or C++ code to get speed on computationally heavy lines of code. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/756192/ebada7ecad32f3ad/ ... (more)

Some major players are getting together to trial decentralised data sharing using the Dat protocol - https://datproject.org. Dat for me is one of the dark horses of the infrastructure landscape. It has great power, some amazing developers, has already created some great value, and is still not known by many people yet. Also, this is not blockchain based, and yet manages to be decentralised. Those of you who know me will know why that pleases me. ... (more)

Open knowledge maps show the relationship between different papers, based on a keyword search. They have been gong for some time now (originally built on top of Mendeley data). I ran into them again this week as we start to think about how to visualise the relationship between different aspects of research. The one linked to here is for social science and here is one for “computational social science”: https://openknowledgemaps.org/map/70627a849484345cdfd04c914de0a2e2. Their news pages shows that the project and team are still active, which is great. ... (more)

This is a tool for visualising EC funded projects listed in OpenAire using the infrastructure of Open Knowledge maps. For digging into projects that you know, I think this has some value, but I’d like to see some global overview of where funding is flowing. https://openknowledgemaps.org/viper/ ... (more)

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paper about an open source tool for studying neuroscience images developed by Anisha Keshavan, and others. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811917302707 ... (more)