Information Science
February 9, 2010
The Book of Trogool
Academic samizdat Since early days indeed, it's been possible to bypass journal publishers and libraries in a quest for a particular article by going directly to the author. Some publishers have even facilitated this limited variety of samizdat by offering authors a...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything Part 2 Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything Saturday, January 16 at 10:15 - 11:20am E. Privacy, ethics, and disasters: how being online as a doctor changes everything - Pal MD and Val Jones. Description:...
February 8, 2010
Christina's LIS Rant
The new evil empire has closed access to Ageline A brief note. Remember when I told you about free to you research databases? Remember when some other librarians told you about a certain company negotiating for exclusive access to certain popular magazines, choking out other aggregators? Well, now these...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Ken Liu Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. You can check out previous years'...
February 7, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
Journalism wrap-up from ScienceOnline2010 The complete list of blog/media coverage of ScienceOnline2010 is becoming huge (and also swiftly falling down and off the page), but I wanted to put up on top just a choice of blog posts that completely or partially cover the...
Uncertain Principles
Talking to My Dog About Science: Why Public Communication of Science Matters, and How Weblogs Can Help My talk at Maryland last Thursday went pretty well-- the impending Snowpocalypse kept the audience down, as people tried to fit in enough work to compensate for the Friday shutdown, but the people who were there seemed to like it,...
Dot Physics
Causation, Correlation and Sport Science As you can see, they looked at 4 things for the two quarterbacks playing in the game: height, weight, age difference, and state they were born in. From this, they concluded that Peyton Manning "has the edge". I am paraphrasing what they actually said, but this is basically what it was. So? What is the deal. The deal is that Sport Science fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never confuse correlation with causation."
Christina's LIS Rant
Technologically conservative young scholars – you’re surprised, really? At the PSP Pre-Conference (see my notes), Dr. Harley of the Higher Education in the Digital Age program reported being surprised by their finding that young scholars were unwilling or unlikely to experiment with new scholarly communication (tools/practices/channels). There was...
February 6, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
Interview with Michael Specter at ScienceOnline2010 (video) Part 1 Sabine Vollmer interviews Keynote Speaker Michael Specter for Science In The Triangle Blog....
Effect Measure
All the science news that's not fit for print TV journalism 101 approximately
February 5, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
T.rex, Space, lively colors, mugs, and future scientists - the PLoS Store Spring Collection PLoS shirts are always hot items in labs and at conferences. People just love them. They ask for them, get them as prizes, or buy them, and proudly post pictures of themselves wearing them.... With the spring coming, we decided...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Friday Fun: 2009 Locus Recommended Reading List for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Continuing my strange obsession with lists of books... Locus Magazine is the bible of the sffh business -- both in print and online. Every year they poll their reviewers and various other industry people and come up with a pretty...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Podcasting in Science, Part 6 Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is...
February 4, 2010
Terra Sigillata
Nature science writing paywalls are pissing me off FFS. $32? Each?
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Do You Read News About Science at Least Once per Week (poll)? TheTimesOnline had an unscientific online poll recently with the provocative headline "Science news is a 'man-thing', apparently" .. except they found that it wasn't .. so I thought I'd gather similar data from my readers
February 3, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
Science Blogging News Several items showed up recently that may be of interest to science bloggers, their readers, and related science communicators of various stripes.... A) Today, Eureka, the science section of London Times, published a list of Top 30 Science Blogs. Every...
bioephemera
Book Review: Visual Language for Designers (and Scientists) A treasury of scientific and technical illustrations, graphic design, and data visualization. Highly recommended.
Christina's LIS Rant
PSP Pre-Conference: The Culture of Free: Publishing in an Era of Changing Expectations (part 2) These are a continuation of my notes. This portion has been transcribed from my scribble - I was sitting on stage for the second half of the day so live blogging didn't really seem appropriate :( If there is something...
Christina's LIS Rant
PSP Pre-Conference: The Culture of Free: Publishing in an Era of Changing Expectations (part 1) I attended this one day pre-conference session on February 3, 2010. I got here after the first group of speakers, unfortunately, due in part to #snOMG and part to parking confusion. Barbara Kline Pope on Free at the National...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Podcasting in Science, Part 4 Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is...
Effect Measure
Peer review problems: just in the Nature of things High profile and high cost.
February 2, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
PLoS ONE blogging With Bex Walton moving on to another job, it is now my duty to take over posting about media coverage over on everyONE blog, as well as to pick a cool image of the week. So I started this week...
A Blog Around The Clock
Best of January I wrote 134 posts in January. Unsurprisingly, a lot of that had to do with ScienceOnline (but there was other fun stuff as well, including some cool videos, images, etc.). I went to see a talk about Ecology, conservation, and...
February 1, 2010
The Primate Diaries
Scientia Pro Publica is Up Kind of Curious is hosting the latest edition of the premiere science blog carnival. Stop on in and thank him for an excellent collection....
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Podcasting in Science, Part 2 Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is...
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Synthetic Biology
Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
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Build your own virus
