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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,
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> The January 3, 2013 Nature has two editorials of interest. the first is on ORCID:
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> http://www.orcid.org/
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> "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."
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> My ORCID is 0000-0003-4155-0976
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> I will add my ORCID to my NIH Biosketch. I already crosslinked my ORCID page with my linkedin profile   www.linkedin.com/in/georgemcnamara
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> The second - likely more important! - is on lab safety:
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> "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"
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> Which reminds me: "Do not look at laser with remaining eye!".
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> Happy 2013,
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> George
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> p.s. I don't know if this web links to the Nature Editorial will work for everyone (good luck)
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> http://www.nature.com/news/in-search-of-credit-1.12117
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> 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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