Pseudonymity: Five Reasons the New Scienceblogs/NG Policy is Misguided
Category: Blogosphere
In which I tell it like I see it. Oh, let's be honest, this is a total rant.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:10 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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Jessica Palmer has a PhD in Molecular Biology and has been blogging about the intersection of art and biology since 2006.
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Journalism:
This is actually fracking good
Category: Yikes!
I was playing The Fracking Song last night about midnight, and my boyfriend was grooving to it. At the end he asked, "what was that about?" "Uh. . . fracking." "Which kind of fracking?" Yes, we are a BSG...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:51 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Stop torturing me, MIT!
Category: Citizen Science
Now this is just cruel: yesterday the Cambridge Science Festival kicked off - a week of science, sciart, sci-journalism and sci-education activities at MIT, Harvard, the Museum of Science, and surrounds. Am I going to be hanging out all day...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:23 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
A geoblogger & her nuclear engineer dad team up to explain the Japan situation
Category: Blogosphere
For everyone frustrated with the unscientific, spotty, incoherent and often inaccurate coverage of the Japanese nuclear plant situation: one geo-blogger and her dad try to help out. Now THAT is how you use your scientific expertise to improve public understanding...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:00 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
ScienceBlogGRRRRL Power!
Category: Blogosphere
I'm honored to get a brief shout-out today from the awesome Ed Yong in his post on female bloggers. I mention this not to toot my own horn, but to call attention to the amazing number of women blogging...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:23 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Spidergoats! A Synthetic Bio Horror Movie?
Category: Biology
So I'm all in favor of promoting struggling artists, and that includes documentary filmmakers. But I have to say I'm a little taken aback by the aesthetic of the "Synthetic Bio" documentary project by Field Test Films (and endorsed by...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:10 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Weekend reading
Category: Blogosphere
Here are some essay links I've had open as tabs in my browser for over a week, waiting to be posted. Unfortunately, I don't have time to do the extensive commentary they deserve, so I'm admitting that, and just posting...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:13 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
The New York Times thinks bioanimation is pretty cool
Category: Biology
The New York Times decided earlier this week that biological animation warrants its own article. About time! :) Seriously, for those of you who haven't discovered BioVisions' amazing animations, you should check them out and/or use them in class...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 6:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Weekend video break: Journalism in the age of data
Category: Blogosphere
Knight Fellow Geoff McGhee created this polished video documentary series about how data visualization is infiltrating and transforming journalism. Interviews with Many Eyes creators Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, Amanda Cox of the New York Times, and other dataviz...
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