By bluerasberry on 2014-11-21
Earlier this year the National Museum of American History took in some artifacts related to LGBT history. I saw the news when it was reported, and was glad for that, but also surprised that this needed announcing or that the idea was new. On Tuesday 18 November I visited the museum with Dorothy and we […]
Posted in DC, gay stuff, museum, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Dorothy Howard, Smithsonian
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-28
If you are thinking of doing research on Wikipedia’s editor community, please read this. It is easy for researchers to harm Wikipedia’s editing community by disturbing our projects, so please be mindful that your project can cause trouble if you do not take precaution and show compassion to the volunteers who are in this space. […]
Posted in research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged informed consent
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-27
I am concerned about researchers recruiting Wikipedia community volunteers as human subject participants in their research when they need people to take surveys or be interviewed. The major problems with research on the Wikipedia community is that time in research is time taken away from Wikipedia community activities and research done by outsiders to the […]
Posted in research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged survey, volunteer
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-17
Like everything on this blog, this post is my own personal candid thoughts. I visited an organization working in a similar space as Consumer Reports, and in this post I say some things about me, my organization, and this organization. This post is intended to be entirely positive about everything I saw, because I felt […]
Posted in Boston, clinical research, Consumer Reports, drug, health, non-profit, research, rights | Tagged electronic medical records, privacy
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-11
I had two articles recently published in BMJ. Rasberry, L. (2014). “Wikipedia: what it is and why it matters for healthcare”. BMJ 348 (apr08 3): g2478–g2478. doi:10.1136/bmj.g2478. ISSN 1756-1833. Rasberry, L. (2014). “Citing Wikipedia”. BMJ 348 (mar05 4): g1819–g1819. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1819. ISSN 1756-1833. That first paper is behind a paywall but the second one can be […]
Posted in health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged BMJ, David Menkes, license, publishing
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-04
I am at the Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference in Vegas. I am attending all the talks I can about outsourcing clinical research, and especially about China. These are notes and industry gossip; no fact checking has gone into what I am typing here but obviously the people who are presenting are speaking as insiders […]
Posted in China, clinical research, research | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-11
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is three of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I describe MuckRock as […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, research, Wikipedia | Tagged informed consent
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-04
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is three of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I describe MuckRock as […]
Posted in computer, research, Wikipedia | Tagged MuckRock, request
By bluerasberry on 2013-10-16
On Friday 4 October I went to Seattle and returned Sunday 13 October. I wanted to visit friends and have coffee. On 5 October Lee and I went to the zoo to visit animals. It felt good to go there but I was very tired. I missed Lee a lot. I went to Evan’s place […]
Posted in clinical research, Open access, Portland, research, Seattle | Tagged Brian Glanz, Christian, Cyan, Evan, Jason, Jonathan, Kelly, Lee Haertel, Mark, meetup, PATH, Patrick, Roman
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-17
The Preventing Overdiagnosis was held at Dartmouth from 10-12 September. Consumer Reports was a sponsor of the event, as was Australia’s Bond University and BMJ. I was scheduled to speak about Wikipedia and health. There is a concept in medical literature called “overutilization” which refers to overuse of medical resources. This includes overtreatment, which is […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Choosing Wisely, public health