A roundup of this week’s blog posts of interest in medical librarianship, bioinformatics, oncology and life sciences research.

• Stumbled across a rad blog called Nursing Research: Show me the evidence! from the nursing research staff at the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Orange, CA.
• A welcome addition to the blogosphere: Scimago Labs now has a blog! Topics will include “important issues relating to research evaluation, quantitative analysis of scientific information, scientometrics news and so on.” Looking forward to more posts on bibliometrics and scientometrics from the experts at Scimago.
• Big Data is becoming a Big Problem: a special issue of Science and an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education discuss problems and solutions regarding the preservation and sharing of scientific data sets in a range of disciplines.
• Cameron Neylon summed up some interesting experimental uses of Twitter as a laboratory recording system.