Anatoliy Gruzd, Director of the Social Media Lab at SIM, was interviewed for an article currently featured on Nature.com entitled  “Facebook ‘likes’ the scientific method”   .

The article included commentaries from Dr. Gruzd and other experts about Facebook’s proposed plan to grant limited access to its users’ data to outside researchers.  This story is part of the open data/big data debate that is currently raging among social scientists.

Also, on a related note, here is a companion blog post about this issue on the Social Media Lab’s website.