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"...a veritable expert on tawdry cosmetic procedures gone horribly awry..."--Kevin Beck

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 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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Back (barely) from the NC Science Blogging Conference

As I mentioned previously, I spent the weekend in North Carolina discussing blogging, science, medicine, and other sundry topics with about 200 other bloggers and interested folks at the 2008 Science Blogging Conference. The sessions were excellent, and I loved...

Medblog awards open for voting

Every year, the folks over at Medgadget.com host the Medical Weblog Awards. I've been nominated a few times, and even did OK in the best new blog category a few years back. This year, I'm apparently nominated in the Best...

What do you get when you mix....

Put together a bad astronomer, a squid-loving pirate, an evil monkey, and well, me, and what do you get...?

Donors Choose: final standing

While I'm taking care of some housekeeping, I'll mention the final numbers for the Scienceblogs Donors Choose 2007 challenge. In 2006, we raised collectively just over $34,000 (which included $10K from Seed media). This year, we extended the drive a...

DonorsChoose--meet more of the projects

More interesting projects from DonorsChoose.

Help out a fellow science blogger!

Help a sister out!

DonorsChoose--week 2

The DonorsChoose challenge is in full swing; check out a few of the projects I'm promoting this year!

Correlations is live

The new PBS/WIRED blog, Correlations, is up and running!

Introducing Correlations

A new blog, a new TV show...what's not to like?

Carnivals and miscellany...

I've been terrible about submitting to and promoting fellow bloggers' carnivals lately, so here are two to take note of: the latest Grand Rounds is here at Six Unto Me, while you can get your fix of ecology bloggin' at...

Are science blogs having an impact?

Take a survey and help us find out.

Phew, I'm tired

Too much travel...

YearlyKos videos are up!

Collection of Science panel videos from YearlyKos 2007 earlier this month...

YearlyKos aftermath

Science + politics = yo' mamma.

Countdown to YearlyKos

Heading to a large midwestern city near you...

New to Scienceblogs: The Angry Toxicologist

Scienceblogs gets another infusion of public health goodness with its latest addition, The Angry Toxicologist. It looks like a great start, with posts on vaccines and autism, restless leg syndrome and balancing your chi (quote: "Oooo, scientificy!") Welcome aboard!...

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