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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.
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December 28, 2006
Category: Misc.
It's been quite awhile since I've had a real vacation. Most of my "vacations" are spent traveling back and forth to relatives' and friends' houses, and this Christmas holiday has been no exception. After a jaunt to Ohio to visit...
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December 21, 2006
Category: Blogging news
Hadn't even realized this was ongoing, but the 2006 Medical Weblog Awards are underway. Nominate your favorite medical blog here; several Sciencebloggers have already been mentioned, but spread the love....
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Category: Blog carnivals
Set up as a tribute to the late Carl Sagan, the latest Skeptics' Circle is up at Humbug Online....
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Category: AIDS/HIV
Ho ho ho, and welcome to the early Christmas edition of Animalcules. Sit back, grab some hot cocoa, and click below to open your Christmas gift of some of the most interesting microbiology-themed blog posts over the past month....
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December 20, 2006
Category: Housekeeping
Apologies. I scheduled this post to appear this morning, and it's drawn a few comments. However, it also double-posted for some reason (we underwent an upgrade last night so things have been a bit wonky), and when I unpublished the...
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Category: Blog carnivals
The latest Tangled Bank is up over at Salto Sobrius, a new Encephalon can be found hosted by Evil Monkey at Neurotopia, and the latest Feminist's Carnival can be found over at the imponderabilia of actual life. And while you're...
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Category: Academia
After the discussion here and elsewhere in yonder blogosphere about women and stereotyping, Cornelia Dean in the New York Times writes about recent meeting aimed at helping women advance in science, where bias still rages. This fall, female scientists at...
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December 19, 2006
Category: AIDS/HIV
Libya to execute HIV medics (Previous posts on the topic) A court convicted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor Tuesday of deliberately infecting 400 children with HIV and sentenced them to death, despite scientific evidence the youngsters had...
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Category: Blog carnivals
...okay, dog. A certain beagle and his friends are featured in this week's Grand Rounds, hosted over at Nurse Ratched's Place. And, while you're in a Christmas blog carnival mood, don't forget to drop me a post for this month's...
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December 18, 2006
Category: Iowa/area news
Via Stranger Fruit comes this gorgeous shot of an aurora over Des Moines, Iowa....
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