I’ve been trying to figure out exactly what the Open Collaboration Principles agreed to by IBM, HP, Intel and Cisco, and seven research universities (including my own UC Berkeley) is all about. It’s being reported in some places as a new statement of support for open source, but that doesn’t seem right to me. The […]
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Michael Eisen
I'm a biologist at UC Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. I work primarily on flies, and my research encompases evolution, development, genetics, genomics, chemical ecology and behavior. I am a strong proponent of open science, and a co-founder of the Public Library of Science. And most importantly, I am a Red Sox fan. (More about me here).
I can be reached at:
mbeisen at berkeley.edu
and @mbeisen on Twitter-
Recent Posts
- The Tragedy of Lander
- The abysmal response of the Salk Institute to accounts of gender discrimination in its midst
- Patents are destroying the soul of academic science
- Replace Francis Collins as NIH Director
- Exploring the relationship between gender and author order and composition in NIH-funded research
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