tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332528152024-02-27T21:12:20.189-08:00Patty Jones's DiaryA journal of a budding Executive, growing in the lovely garden that is the Federal Government.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-56352654625183282142021-03-03T13:40:00.000-08:002021-03-03T13:40:04.809-08:00Reunited and it feels so good<p> Obviously I had forgotten that I even had this blog...but now I am reunited with this platform. Lovely! Been thinking a lot about mentorship, citizen science, and community engagement.<br /></p>Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-43096963299334712592017-03-20T13:11:00.003-07:002017-03-20T13:11:40.969-07:00Research ImpactHow to assess the impact of one's research? Let me count the ways. Certainly you can count up <b>productivity metrics</b> such as number of grants, dollar amounts of said grants, number of students supervised, number of journal papers published, and for some fields, number of conference papers published. I have also been looking at <b>collaboration metrics</b> related to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis" target="_blank">social network analysis </a>which is of great concern to me, being here at the <a href="http://beckman.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Beckman Institute</a> where we care a lot about interdisciplinary collaboration. The next step is <b>impact metrics</b> which traditionally are a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author-level_metrics" target="_blank">uthor bibliometrics</a> (such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index" target="_blank">h-index</a>) or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_ranking#Measures" target="_blank">journal bibliometrics</a> that often look at citation-based measures. The <a href="https://www.plos.org/" target="_blank">Public Library of Science</a>'s approach is broader, looking at v<a href="http://www.lagotto.io/plos/#static-content-wrap" target="_blank">iews, social media impact, and more</a>. Sometimes honors and awards bestowed upon a person or group explicitly include impact as the rationale; a few such awards I found are even called "Research Impact Awards". I have been looking at various types of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmetrics" target="_blank">alt-metrics</a> </b>as well. And finally, we can do what we always do, which is to tell stories to explain impact.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-22650887579817702472015-11-13T07:12:00.001-08:002015-11-13T07:12:20.120-08:00Open Science and moreI am surprised to discover I have not posted here for a couple of years. What?? Anyway - today I wanted to collect some interesting pointers to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science" target="_blank">open science</a>.<br />
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Our INSIGHT project is available on the <a href="https://osf.io/" target="_blank">Open Science Framework</a> at this particular place: <a href="https://osf.io/9yuqr/">https://osf.io/9yuqr/</a>. The other IARPA project "<a href="https://osf.io/p6cjh/" target="_blank">FAST</a>" is also posted there. OSF has been <a href="https://cos.io/pr/2015-08-12/" target="_blank">recommended by the Center for Open Science</a> too.<br />
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Related to our INSIGHT project, we did a survey of data repositories related to neuroscience and the social and behavioral sciences. This survey included <a href="https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/landing.jsp" target="_blank">IPCSR</a>, <a href="http://www.nitrc.org/" target="_blank">NITRC</a>, <a href="https://coins.mrn.org/" target="_blank">COINS</a>, <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://openfmri.org/" target="_blank">OpenfMRI</a>, <a href="http://sumsdb.wustl.edu:8081/sums/index.jsp" target="_blank">SumsDB</a>, <a href="http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/" target="_blank">1000 Functional Connectomes project</a> and its successor the I<a href="http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/indi_ack.html" target="_blank">nternational Neuroimaging Data-sharing Initiative</a>, <a href="https://msu.edu/~brains/" target="_blank">BrainBiodiversity Bank</a>,</span><a href="http://www.xnat.org/" target="_blank">
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I just learned of <a href="https://ropensci.org/" target="_blank">rOPenSci</a> - open tools in the R programming language.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.nationaldataservice.org/" target="_blank">National Data Service</a> is being spearheaded by <a href="http://ncsa.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">NCSA</a>. <br />
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Of course there is a long history of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software" target="_blank">open-source software</a>, of which two of my favorite examples are <a href="https://www.bugzilla.org/" target="_blank">Bugzilla</a> and <a href="http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/" target="_blank">NAMD</a>.<br />
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The scientific journals are also important players here, obviously <a href="https://www.plos.org/" target="_blank">PLOS</a> as well as others. <br />
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Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-20229538725062223622013-08-14T12:06:00.002-07:002013-08-14T12:06:28.744-07:00Big data is a big deal"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data" target="_blank">Big data</a>" is a big deal. The US National Science Foundation has a <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/cise/news/bigdata.jsp" target="_blank">Big Data initiative</a>. The US National Institutes of Health has a "<a href="http://bd2k.nih.gov/#sthash.LeoFlAbb.dpbs" target="_blank">Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)</a>" program. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/03/29.aspx" target="_blank">Big Data effort</a> as well. There are lots of cool examples of scientific communities that are organized around data sharing and analysis, such as the <a href="http://www.brain-map.org/" target="_blank">Allen Brain Atlas</a>, the <a href="http://www.neuinfo.org/" target="_blank">Neuroscience Information Framework</a>, the <a href="http://www.wwpdb.org/" target="_blank">Worldwide Protein Data Bank</a>, the <a href="https://materialsproject.org/" target="_blank">Materials Project</a>, and more. The US Government's current sites include NASA's <a href="http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/lsda_home1.aspx" target="_blank">Life Science Data Archive</a> and the <a href="http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Aviation Safety Reporting System</a>, JPL's <a href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi" target="_blank">Small Body Database Browser</a> and <a href="http://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Molecular Spectroscopy Catalog</a>, and the Department of Defense's <a href="http://iac.dtic.mil/" target="_blank">Information Analysis Centers</a>.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-68414682526901654552013-05-30T14:37:00.001-07:002013-05-30T14:37:57.628-07:00n-DisciplinarityBack in the day, there was a lot of talk about multidisciplinary research. As a <a href="http://hfes.org/" target="_blank">human factors </a>researcher, I am already used to being interdisciplinary - between the worlds of industrial engineering, psychology, and computer science. Now there is more talk of transdisciplinarity - such as the talk that <a href="http://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/dstokols" target="_blank">Dan Stokols</a> will <a href="http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/117?eventId=26591026" target="_blank">give here at UIUC next month</a>. It is interesting to ponder this longitudinally -- that a topic that was once between disciplines, then becomes a discipline itself. Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-540207964039130002013-04-12T13:38:00.001-07:002013-04-12T13:38:36.453-07:00Brains!Of course I am interested in the new White House BRAIN initiative. There is a White House <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/infographics/brain-initiative" target="_blank">infographic</a>, <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/02/fact-sheet-brain-initiative" target="_blank">fact sheet</a> and <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/02/brain-initiative-challenges-researchers-unlock-mysteries-human-mind" target="_blank">blog entry</a>. And plenty of commentary on a variety of news sites. Part of the basis for this is the Brain Activity Map<b> (BAM!)</b> project described in <a href="http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273%2812%2900518-1" target="_blank">this paper published in the peer-reviewed journal <b>Neuron</b></a>. Certainly, creating maps is helpful, and thusly inventing technologies to help you create the maps is important. But it is also important to focus on human health and performance issues (e.g., PTSD, TBI, dementia, etc.) that are the reason to care about such maps.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-61762314417682377442013-04-01T09:07:00.001-07:002013-04-01T09:07:19.179-07:00Shout out!I just read Professor Brian Cunningham's post over at his <a href="http://nanosensorsgroup.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nanosensors</a> blog. Very good advice for graduate students!Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-90195765270947841102013-03-26T14:29:00.000-07:002013-03-26T14:29:13.117-07:00On university-industry collaborationTomorrow I will participate in a UIUC <a href="http://www.dbs.illinois.edu/page.aspx?site=ourprograms&page=FacultyDevelopmentProgram" target="_blank">faculty development seminar</a> on "Working with Companies". I think it will be a good introduction to a lot of issues, including:<br />
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<li>gifts versus grants versus contracts</li>
<li><a href="http://research.illinois.edu/policies/conflicts.cfm" target="_blank">Conflicts of Interest and Commitment</a></li>
<li>Publication</li>
<li><a href="http://otm.illinois.edu/uiuc_principlesofip" target="_blank">Intellectual properties, patents, licenses</a> </li>
<li>Types of agreements, including Material Transfer, Sponsored Research, Technical Testing, and more</li>
<li><a href="http://irb.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Institutional Review Board (IRB) for human subjects research</a></li>
<li><a href="http://iacuc.research.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)</a></li>
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I will mention several cool examples of industry collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including<br />
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<li>the <a href="http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/" target="_blank">Energy Biosciences Institute</a></li>
<li>the <a href="http://www.cnlm.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory</a></li>
<li>the <a href="http://acrc.mechse.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center</a></li>
<li>the <a href="http://www.dbs.illinois.edu/page.aspx?site=ourpartners&page=MayoClinic" target="_blank">Mayo Illinois Alliance for Technology Based Healthcare</a></li>
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Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-56458504093414022252013-03-22T07:40:00.003-07:002013-03-22T07:40:57.683-07:00On human-in-the-loop simulationIn addition to <a href="http://bic.beckman.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">BIC</a> and <a href="http://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">ITG</a> (see previous post), the <a href="http://isl.beckman.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Illinois Simulator Laboratory (ISL)</a> is a shared research facility at Beckman. ISL supports an <a href="http://www.isl.beckman.illinois.edu/Labs/Labs.htm" target="_blank">array of laboratories</a>: virtual reality systems (Cave and Cube), driving simulator, flight simulation, and motion capture suite. When you are doing human-systems integration research (like my previous gig at <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/" target="_blank">NASA Ames Research Center</a>'s <a href="http://hsi.arc.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">Human Systems Integration Division</a>), this kind of capability is crucial. But of course, technology keeps changing. Mobile computing is another genre of technology that has other harmonics related to human factors and human-systems integration. The whole area of <a href="http://beckman.illinois.edu/research/themes/hcii/" target="_blank">human-computer intelligent interaction</a> is a very active research field.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-26641094153897387242013-03-21T09:01:00.004-07:002013-03-21T09:01:43.030-07:00On biomedical imagingPart of my job at Beckman is to provide oversight over our shared research facilities, which includes the <a href="http://bic.beckman.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Biomedical imaging Center</a> and the <a href="http://itg.beckman.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Imaging Technology Group</a>. BIC has MRI, ultrasound, microPET/SPECT/CT, and diffuse optical imaging (fNIRS and EROS). ITG's Microscopy Suite includes micro and nano CT. I just read an IEEE Spectrum article on "omni-tomography" -- interesting! see it here: <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/path-found-to-a-combined-mri-and-ct-scanner/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=032113" target="_blank">"Combined MRI and CT Scanner"</a>. We are always thinking about how to advance the state of the art, and also how we can support the faculty. Of course the faculty themselves are doing groundbreaking work in imaging -- such as <a href="http://beckman.illinois.edu/directory/person/boppart" target="_blank">Steve Boppart's</a> work in <a href="http://biophotonics.illinois.edu/index.html" target="_blank">biophotonics</a>, <a href="http://beckman.illinois.edu/directory/person/gpopescu" target="_blank">Gabi Popescu's</a> work on <a href="http://light.ece.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">quantitative light imaging</a>, <a href="http://beckman.illinois.edu/directory/person/rxb" target="_blank">Rohit Bhargava</a>'s work on <a href="http://www.chemimage.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">chemical imaging</a>, <a href="http://beckman.illinois.edu/directory/person/z-liang" target="_blank">Zhi-Pei Liang</a>'s work in <a href="http://mri.beckman.uiuc.edu/index.html" target="_blank">MRI</a>, and <a href="http://beckman.illinois.edu/directory/person/bsutton" target="_blank">Brad Sutton</a>'s work on <a href="http://mrfil.bioen.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">MR functional imaging</a>. Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-12537444471292277992013-03-20T13:37:00.002-07:002013-03-20T13:37:37.886-07:00Episode 4: A new gigI have finally reconnected with my old blog here. I had been going for a "Bridget Jones's Diary" vibe a few years ago. Now I am at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is good to be back home in Illinois! And it is super-cool to be the Associate Director for Research at Beckman. see more at: <a href="http://www.beckman.illinois.edu/" target="_blank">Beckman Institute</a>Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0Urbana, IL 61801, USA40.1060728 -88.221773340.0574958 -88.3024543 40.1546498 -88.1410923tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-6855025302334845722008-03-11T11:24:00.000-07:002008-03-11T11:26:39.701-07:00number of months back home: nearly 3<br /><br />I got back home on December 15, 2007. And then what with holidays and all, did not really get back in the swing until January 7.<br />Did a big all-hands meeting on February 7.<br />Working a lot of personnel and budget issues.<br />Now that I got used to 3 or 4 month detail assignments in 2007, I detect a longing for change again...but will have to work that within my current job.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-40143620612807182882007-07-09T20:11:00.001-07:002007-07-09T20:11:41.942-07:00number of days on external assignments: 169 so far<br /><br />Been away from the family for three months, and now home but a loooong commute.<br />Love the work, don't love the effect on family life.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-1160361012400979682006-10-08T19:28:00.000-07:002006-10-08T19:30:12.413-07:00number of days on Capitol Hill: 4<br />number of nights in Chicago: 1<br /><br />This past week I got to attend a course on Congressional operations, actually held on Capitol Hill<br />and, in two of the sessions, actually held in a House or Senate committee hearing room.<br />Cool! V. interesting to learn about the deliberately-inefficient, anti-tyranny machine<br />that is the legislative branch.<br /><br />Flight left DC late on the last day, so missed flight in Chicago.<br />But got to spend the night with family, which was fun.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-1158867573454292322006-09-21T12:36:00.000-07:002006-09-21T12:39:33.466-07:00number of weeks our financial system will be down: 4-6<br />number of weeks our computer network will be partially down: 4-6<br /><br />Infrastructure! Gotta have it.<br />Of course, in a *real* industry, they would presumably spend money on keeping a second<br />backup financial system running while the main one is down, and on renting new<br />office space with intact computer networks while our building is being upgraded.<br />In the absence of resources for doing that, we will just do the best we can to work around it.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-1158443461541208872006-09-16T14:48:00.000-07:002006-09-16T14:51:01.543-07:00number of Nintendo DS machines in the house: 4<br />number of Nintendo Game Boy Advance machines in the house: 1<br />number of PlayStation 2 machines in the house: 1<br /><br />I can justify all this technology. Now that I and my husband and my two boys each have a Nintendo DS,<br />we can all do PictoChat and exchange games. I use my GBA during airline travel and will now have<br />my Nintendo DS as well to practice Brain Age. The PlayStation has the eyeToy kinetic workout program<br />which is good and helps keep me in shape. Although I must admit, I skipped the whole last week of working<br />out, but then again I was away for four days on business travel.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-1157701041927301062006-09-08T00:35:00.000-07:002006-09-08T00:37:21.936-07:00This week is a swirl of medical and work issues.<br />Thursday: dentist for root planing (ugh).<br />Friday: eye doctor for new prescription (yuk on exams but fun on new frames).<br /><br />Every day at work is frantic replanning and rewickering of budget and workforce numbers.<br />Am now going on v. important trip next week.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-1157215311852324292006-09-02T09:33:00.000-07:002006-09-02T09:41:51.853-07:00Unconventional Leadership Books<br /><br /><br />"The Bad Popes" by E. R. Chamberlin. <br />As a lapsed Catholic, I do not feel guilty about learning about the history<br />of the Church even if it is less than flattering.<br />This is a fascinating and wittily-written history with many lessons<br />on what not to do as a leader. <br /><br />"The March of Folly" by Barbara Tuchman.<br />There are so many good insights here that apply to our times now.<br /><br /><br />"Sorting Things Out" by Geoff Bowker and S. Leigh Star<br />This is about how organizations categorize things<br />(eg how WHO classifies diseases). It's a great reminder of the<br />political and social forces at work that define how we conceptualize<br />the world and how that shapes our processes and decisions.<br />I always think about these insights when dealing with categories<br />like "performance metrics" or "transition workforce".Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-1157214758946746972006-09-02T09:28:00.000-07:002006-09-02T09:32:38.956-07:00data from yesterday:<br />number of diet cokes: 3<br />number of protein bars: 2<br />number of technical planning meetings: 2<br />number of technical/budget meetings: 1<br /><br /><br />Good day yesterday. Useful and interesting meetings.<br /><br />From last night:<br />number of hours shopping with sons: 2<br />number of games of MASTERMIND played with sons: 4<br /><br />Today is Saturday:<br />number of cups of coffee: 2<br />number of fruit washed: 10 apples, 3 peaches, 3 large tomatoes,<br />large quantities of cherry tomatoes and grapesPatty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-1157002587158462832006-08-30T22:34:00.000-07:002006-08-30T22:36:27.166-07:00number of minutes spent dealing with budget spreadsheets: 480<br />number of minutes spent dealing with children: 30<br /><br /><br />Oof. Too much work to do today. Too many spreadsheets due in the next 48 hours.<br />Why do we persist in believing that precision equals accuracy?<br />WHIMS WHIMS WHIMSPatty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-1156445477140676162006-08-24T11:45:00.000-07:002006-08-24T11:51:17.150-07:00number of consultations: 2<br />number of diet Cokes drunk: 4<br /><br />Today is a day of one-on-one meetings, individual work and reflection.<br /><br />Am pondering appropriate synonyms for what dear Bridget would<br />call "fuckwittage". Hrm. Maybe WHIMS as an acronym for<br />What in the Hell Idiocy is Masquerading as Strategic thinking.<br />which also has a logical connection the actual meaning of the<br />word whims -- management fads and shallow reactive thinking.<br />Amusingly, this is reminiscent of the acronym for our<br />Workforce Information Management System.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33252815.post-1156386804436538372006-08-23T19:27:00.000-07:002006-08-23T19:33:24.450-07:00number of team-building exercises: 5 (lava lake, pictionary, maze word challenge, traffic jam, uplift/popsicle pushups)<br />number of alcoholic beverages drunk: 1<br /><br /><br />And so it begins.....I am in my official orientation for the executive training program.<br />It is so v. interesting to meet all the other people in the class -- they are such a mix of personality and communication styles. I find it heartening to have my belief reinforced: that it takes all kinds to make the world.Patty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13768421317130321376noreply@blogger.com0