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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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Category: Misc.
While I'm at it, I might as well add that I now have a twitter account, for those of you who'd like to follow along there: http://twitter.com/aetiology Or, if RSS feeds are more your thing, Aetiology's is http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceblogs/aetiology Now back...
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Category: Misc.
I've been really terrible at spreading around some link love this year, largely because my time to read other blogs has been significantly diminished due to my other responsibilities. However yesterday I was able to do a tiny bit of...
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Category: Misc.
Journalists always get it too easy...
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Category: Misc.
Back out swabbing today (noses this time, not asses). Heading out with 3 grad students who've never done field work before, so should be a fun day. Meanwhile, just got another manuscript submitted last night; that makes four currently under...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:30 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I've learned to get a sinking feeling when I see my hometown is in the national news...
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Category: Misc.
In her guest post at Highly Allochthonous, hydrogeologist Anne Jefferson explains how one can have two "500 year floods" in short measure. Great reading......
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Category: Academia
An artist who used harmless bacteria as part of an exhibit had his day in court.
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Category: Misc.
A Yale student has purposely gotten pregnant and induced abortions multiple times for her senior art project.
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Category: Misc.
It's been a busy 3 days here in Atlanta. My talk Tuesday was well-received, I have lots of new ideas for future projects, and I'll have posts on the conference itself starting, hopefully, this afternoon (last night was family time,...
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Category: Housekeeping
Scienceblogs readers rock.
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