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Change will take place -- whether you deny or embrace it. This time, in
research ID and the way we publish.
Like many people don't like the idea of cell phone -- they regard this more
like a leash to kill your freedom, the beauty of connecting people (with a
phone number) is there. Of course, you don't have to remeber a series of
numbers; you still call people John Smith.
If we have accepted Linkedin and ResearchGate, both run by for profit
companies (well I am not so sure about ResearchGate), then why do we deny a
NPO? :)

Cheers,
Peng Xi
Ph. D.    Associate Professor
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
Peking University, Beijing, China
Tel: +86 10-6276 7155
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://bme.pku.edu.cn/~xipeng

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Mark Cannell <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

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>
> Dear Group
>
> This message is really spamming. Let us be quite clear ORCID Inc. has
> cleverly hoodwinked you and others to providing it information of
> commercial value as well as placing cookies on your computer. The benefits
> or needs of a unique researcher ID are unclear and frankly I don't like the
> idea of reducing human identities to a number. I will boycott this service
> and advise everyone else to do the same.
>
> There is already research gate and linked in and this is just another
> company exploiting our good will for dubious benefit.
>
> My 2c.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> On 29/01/2013, at 2:25 AM, George McNamara <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
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> >
> > Dear Confocal Listserv,
> >
> > The January 3, 2013 Nature has two editorials of interest. the first is
> on ORCID:
> >
> > http://www.orcid.org/
> >
> > "And here is where last year's launch of the Open Researcher and
> Contributor ID (ORCID) facility is to be welcomed. The core function of
> ORCID --- a community collaboration (see go.nature.com/sy3qnp) --- is to
> assign every researcher a number and a web page, thereby providing a unique
> identifier and so disambiguation. The web page enables the researcher to
> record their contributions: papers they have published and --- a facility
> to come --- their research grants and patents. Nature journals authors can
> link their ORCID to their account in our manuscript submission and tracking
> system, and we will soon be publishing authors' ORCIDs in papers. (Readers
> can register for ORCID here: https://orcid.org/register; see also Nature
> 485, 564; 2012.) ... That is why Nature and the Nature journals have
> introduced two ways in which referees can be given credit. Any referee who,
> in a given year, has refereed three or more papers for any of the journals
> will receive a letter acknowledging their contribution and a free
> subscription to their choice of one of the journals."
> >
> > My ORCID is 0000-0003-4155-0976
> >
> > I will add my ORCID to my NIH Biosketch. I already crosslinked my ORCID
> page with my linkedin profile   www.linkedin.com/in/georgemcnamara
> >
> >
> > ***
> >
> > The second - likely more important! - is on lab safety:
> >
> > "one-third of scientists say that safety is more important to them than
> it is to their colleagues, with only  2% voting the other way. Although
> most respondents say that their labs are safe places to work, they
> simultaneously report behaviour, such as frequent lone working, that seems
> to belie that confidence ...  almost half the respondents reported being
> injured in the lab"
> >
> > Which reminds me: "Do not look at laser with remaining eye!".
> >
> > Happy 2013,
> >
> > George
> >
> > p.s. I don't know if this web links to the Nature Editorial will work
> for everyone (good luck)
> >
> > http://www.nature.com/news/in-search-of-credit-1.12117
> >
> >
> http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/1.12117!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/493005a.pdf
>
> Mark  B. Cannell Ph.D. FRSNZ
> Professor of Cardiac Cell Biology
> School of Physiology&  Pharmacology
> Medical Sciences Building
> University of Bristol
> Bristol
> BS8 1TD UK
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