Next Generation Science

I am fascinated by the interplay between science, technology and society. Written as a group blog, Next Generation Science was created to examine emerging technologies and their impact on how scientists communicate, collaborate and participate in the digital age.

Recent articles authored by Walter Jessen

  • Open Science Contact List
    Sunday, May 16th, 2010

    Graham Steel (FriendFeed: McDawg) has started a contact list for people who are directly or indirectly affiliated and/or associated with Open Science. He discussed the reason for an Open Science Contact List yesterday on his blog. Although his focus in [...]

  • Networked Science and StackExchange
    Friday, May 14th, 2010

    I first discovered Biostar, a StackExchange for bioinformatics, computational genomics and systems biology, via a post of Deepak’s (FriendFeed: mndoci) back in March: BioStar – A bioinformatics stackexchange. I’ve been meaning to use it, but with the job change and [...]

  • The Panton Principles for Open Data in Science
    Friday, February 19th, 2010

    The Panton Principles for Open Data in Science and the Is It Open Data? web service launched today. From the Panton Principles preamble: Science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the published body of scientific knowledge. For [...]