Another advantage of blogging
Category: Academia
Score another for science blogging--it hones your defenses against criticism.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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. She 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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Infectious Disease Series
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In the lab--the year in review
Category: Academia
Ah, classes are finally over. The last two summers I've taught a short, intense course in Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology, condensing a semester's worth of work into a week. It's a fun course to teach, but exhausting--after teaching, I head...
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Women and Veterinary Medicine
Category: Academia
The Dog Zombie has an interesting post discussing women in vet med--and why there are so many. She notes that her school is only 12% male, versus more of an even distribution in med schools, and the recent discussion of...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Moving science communication into the public sphere--how?
Category: Academia
Mike and David Dobbs both have great posts up discussing "whither rewards for scientists who communicate to the public?" This ended up being one of the themes of my recent SciencePub talk in Columbus--what are the incentives--and disincentives--to scientists for...
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Additional thoughts on Bible-flu and the retraction
Category: Academia
PZ has some additional thoughts on the Bibleflugate retraction up at Pharyngula. Choice quote: This is a serious concern, to my mind. Scientists are expected to be open and communicative about their work, explaining all the details about how we...
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The science boys' club strikes again
Category: Academia
Recently, a bit of a kerfuffle has sprung up around the choice of entries included in The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, edited by Richard Dawkins. The book contains 83 examples of the "finest writing by scientists." However, DrHGG...
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Iowa "academic freedom" bill dies with a whimper
Category: Academia
Score another one for science.
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Academic blogging: addressing criticisms
Category: Academia
Thanks again to those who blogged, commented or emailed regarding our PLoS Biology manuscript. Nick already has his own response here, highlighting posts such as Larry's, Blake's, Drug Monkey's, Thomas', and Carlo's. Several criticisms ran along the same lines: that,...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:15 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PLoS Biology: blogging and academia
Category: Blogging news
Along with Shelley Batts and Nick Anthis, I have a new paper out today in PLoS Biology on academic blogging: a short commentary on potential ways to integrate blogs into academia. Nick already has a bit of the history and...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:20 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Better news from the art world
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An artist who used harmless bacteria as part of an exhibit had his day in court.
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