The Digital Science Podcast
1) The Altmetric Top 100
From the shocking mortality rates in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria to the spread of fake news online, many of this year’s most important issues feature in the Altmetric Top 100. In this episod...Show More
2) Custom Crafted Organisms, the Robotic Cloud Laboratory and DARPA
Amongst our portfolio is robotic cloud laboratory platform Transcriptic. Alongside Ginkgo Bioworks, an organism company that designs custom microbes for customers, they were recently awarded a joint $...Show More
3) Six Years of Rich Data with Altmetric
A clear understanding of the attention published research has received online is now an essential part of the research process. Altmetric has offered the most reliable, functional and efficient way to...Show More
4) Exploring Blockchain Technologies for Peer Review
Digital Science and Katalysis are pleased to announce the launch of a pilot project to test blockchain technologies to support the peer review process. They are joined in this pilot project by foundin...Show More
5) The Altmetric Top 100
In this episode we’re talking about the 2017 Altmetric Top 100 - an annual list that showcases the most popular articles of the last 12 months based on how much attention they’ve received in the mains...Show More
6) Blockchain for Research
Digital Science has recently released a new report detailing the potential of the blockchain for research. In this podcast, we hope to summarize our findings and also discuss what a world with blockch...Show More
7) The State of Open Data
Figshare is a company that believes in open data. Users upload content including data sets, research outputs, figures and video and images - it is free to upload and free access. Last year, they rele...Show More
8) Preprints, Peer Review and Publishing
Preprints provide a way for scientists to get immediate feedback on their work from the community. Today, preprint servers exist in a number of disciplines and in this podcast I interview a group of...Show More
9) The Journey to Discover Gravitational Waves
Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitational waves for fifty years. Then, in September 2015, came a "very interesting event" that proved to be the first detection of gravitati...Show More
10) What We Don't Know About Our Universe
Recently, the creator of PhD Comics Jorge Cham and his particle Physicist friend and colleague, Daniel Whiteson, stopped by our offices to talk about the story behind the world renowned PhD comics and...Show More