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July 5, 2008
Laelaps
'Aint no cure for the [blogging] blues Are science writers starting to suffer from blogging burnout? It seems that way. For one reason or another a number of bloggers (including three of my favorites) have seriously pondered the question of giving up on science blogging (or...
Thus Spake Zuska
Onion Engineering At my mother's assisted living home, the staff helped my mom and other residents put in a small garden in the spring. Onions, featured in the planting, are now being enjoyed by all. Mom says they are past that first...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
White Ash Tree An image of tree bark for you to look at, courtesy of me!
A Blog Around The Clock
Books on Open Access As expected, most of them are free to download. Peter Suber has all the relevant links: Open Access Opportunities and Challenges: A Handbook (PDF) by Barbara Malina (ed.). Science Dissemination using Open Access by Canessa and Zennaro. Understanding Open Access...
A Blog Around The Clock
OA student projects available Heather Morrison just finished teaching her class on Open Access and the student projects are now all online for you to see....
A Blog Around The Clock
More you can see, more you click That is, in a nutshell, the conclusion of this study. If you have free access to a lot of literature, you are much more likely to click on links and download PDFs (which hopefully means you will read the papers,...
A Blog Around The Clock
NIH Public Access Policy instructions on PubMed home page Thanks to Heather for the heads-up: Instructions for NIH-funded authors have been prominently placed on the PubMed home page. There is a link to a list of journals that will manage the submission process with the NIH guidelines on behalf...
Greg Laden's Blog
Nature: Bad Puppy! PLoS The flap that started with the ill advised commentary by Delcan Butler started out looking like it MIGHT be an Orwellian, perhaps Nixononian attempt by a well established publishing icon in the fields of science to damage an up and coming competitor, the...
DrugMonkey
Put Down The Fucking Crack Pipe Editors of scientific journals play a very important role in the scientific enterprise. When scientists begin to develop cutting-edge new ideas, it is key that scientific editors find appropriate peer reviewers to review such new work. However, the recent kerfuffle...
Greg Laden's Blog
Nature Re-Attacks Open Access and PLoS Nature (left) vs. OpenAccess A number of bloggers, including myself, had recently responded to a news item in Nature by suggesting that anti-OpenAccess and anti-PLoS position taken by the author, Delcan Butler, constituted an attack of one company against another. How silly of us...
July 4, 2008
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Jesse Helms: In His Own Words and Deeds I am celebrating freedom -- freedom from the festering hatreds of one bigoted and mean-spirited old man.
Greg Laden's Blog
Louisiana's Governor Signs Anti Evolution Bill Cletus From the National Center for Science Education: Over the protests of leading scientific organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Louisiana's governor Bobby Jindal signed Senate Bill 733 into law, twenty-seven years...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Maidenhair Tree This tree's scientific name is probably more familiar to you than it's common name!
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Seeing is believing. Blogging has been a bit light lately, in part because I was persuaded to teach half of a graduate seminar during the summer session. The first half of the seminar looked at philosophical approaches to epistemology (basically, a set of...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Friday Sprog Blogging: the element of surprise. In which the younger Free-Riide offspring absconds with my source material.
Mike the Mad Biologist
Review Articles or Review Chapters? What's the incentive for writing a non-peer reviewed book chapter?
July 3, 2008
See Jane Compute
An update on my mental state Rather than responding to all of the comments on my last post (and thanks once again---really, you all have done so much to help put me in a better mental state than I've been in in a while!), I thought...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Norway Maple Tree Aaaand .. more tree bark!
The Frontal Cortex
Old Scientists Are Conservative The ideological swings of scientists between age-groups is striking: What do you think explains this shift? And what other differences do you notice between young and old scientists? (I realize all such statements will be absurd over-generalizations, but that's the...
Greg Laden's Blog
Texas Education Agency May Get its Comer-Uppance Christina Comer is suing the Texas Education agency. Here is a copy of the law suit. From the Dallas News: AUSTIN - A former state science curriculum director filed suit against the Texas Education Agency and Education Commissioner Robert Scott on Wednesday, alleging she was...
A Blog Around The Clock
On the Nature of PLoS.... I know that you know that I work for PLoS. So, I know that a lot of you are waiting for me to respond, in some way, to the hatchet-job article by Declan Bucler published in Nature yesterday. Yes, Nature...
Highly Allochthonous
How to stop worrying and love your mapping project Some tips for effective field mapping
July 2, 2008
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Nature Versus Open Access Methinks that NATURE (and Butler) is afraid of PLoS!
Greg Laden's Blog
Is PLoS Coming of Age? Heavyweight science journalist Sir Delcan Butler has published an update, of sorts, on the status of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), published today in the journal Nature.* In it, he presents a study carried out by Nature on the financial status of PLoS, and...
DrugMonkey
Nature offers a completely objective and unbiased review of PLoS A recent naturenews piece by a Declan Butler takes a hard hitting look at the business practices of the Public Library of Science (PLoS). PLoS, as most scientists are aware by now is one of the more obvious examples of...
“Clearly, the Bible is prophetic. It knew about Islam hundreds of years before Muhammed was born! Braxton Thomason on Smallmindedness in small towns
