blogs and chemical communication steven m. bachrach trinity university [email protected]
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Blogs and Chemical Communication
Steven M. BachrachTrinity University
www.comporgchem.com/blog
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What is a blog?“web log”Series of postsMore dynamic content than a
web pageBegan in late 1990s and come
into its own in early 2000s as part of Web 2.0
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Chemistry Blog typesOpinion and NewsTeachingArticle ReviewsOriginal Research
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petermr's blog – Peter Murray-Rust(http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/)
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In The Pipeline – Derek Lowe(http://pipeline.corante.com/)
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Chem Bark – Paul Bracher(http://blog.chembark.com/)
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Chemistry Blog – multiple authors(http://www.chemistry-blog.com/)
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Master Organic Chemistry - James Ashenhurst(http://masterorganicchemistry.com/)
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Totally Synthetic – Paul Docherty(http://totallysynthetic.com/blog/)
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Computational Organic Chemistry – Steven Bachrach(http://comporgchem.com/blog/)
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Henry Rzepa(http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/)
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Finding BlogsAggregators
◦Chemical Blogspace◦Computational Chemistry Highlights
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Chemical Blogspace – Egon Willighagen,Peter Maas(http://cb.openmolecules.net/)
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Chemical Blogspace - Zeitgeist
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Computational Chemistry Highlights - Jan Jensen(http://www.compchemhighlights.org/)
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Computational Chemistry Highlights
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Blogging as Peer review. I.“Reductive and Transition-Metal-
Free: Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols by Sodium Hydride” Wang, Zhang, Wang, JACS, 2009, DOI: 10.1021/ja904224y
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Blogging as Peer Review. I.Blogged in Totally Synthetic
(http://totallysynthetic.com/blog/?p=1903)
◦Included repeating experiment◦Picked up by readers who also failed to reproduce results
◦Consensus suggestion that oxygen contaminants, either from air or within or upon NaH, are responsible for oxidation
Summarized in RSC blog(http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2009/July/27070901.asp)
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Result:
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Blogging as Peer review. II.“Evidence for the Likely Origin of
Homochirality in Amino Acids, Sugars, and Nucleosides on Prebiotic Earth,” Ron Breslow, JACS, 2012, 134, 6887–6892, DOI: 10.1021/ja3012897
Dinos in Space!◦ "An implication of this work is that elsewhere in
the universe there could exist life forms based on D amino acids and L sugars...Such life forms could even be advanced versions of dinosaurs, if mammals did not have the good fortune to have the dinosaurs wiped out by an asteroidal collision, as on Earth. We would be better off not meeting them."
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Blogging as Peer Review. II.Plagarism and exaggerated claims highlighted in
Chem Bark, In the Pipeline, Curious Wavefunction, and others◦ blog.chembark.com/2012/04/12/breslow-and-dinosaurs-in-
jacs-oh-my/◦ pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/04/25/
breslows_chirality_paper_more_than_just_alien_dinosaurs.php
◦ wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2012/04/would-ron-breslows-dinosaurs-be-typing.html
◦ justlikecooking.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/space-dinos-prebiotic-chemistry-meets.html
Stuart Cantrell’s (Chief Editor of Nature Chemistry) Twitter pics demonstrate many paragraphs that were lifted whole (http://twitpic.com/9dd5f1)
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Result:
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Why I blogAltruism only goes so farSurvey the computational
organic literature to◦A) provide currency to my book◦B) assist in writing the second
edition◦C) forms the basis of a series of
review articles for RSCDemonstrate the use of blogging
in chemical communication
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Chemistry-enabled Blogging
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Technical ConsiderationsBlog software
◦WordpressBlog-specific hosting
◦Self-hosting◦Commercial blogging service
Wordpress.com, blogger.com (now google), blogspot.com
Remote host MediaTemple
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The Future of BloggingPressure from other social media
◦Hard to envisage Twitter as an effective chemical communication medium
Need to establish professional benefit to blogging◦Alt.metrics
Current most promising candidate: Journal review overlay
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AcknowledgmentsPeter Murray-RustHenry RzepaJan JensenWiley, RSCDustin Bachrach