Now that the registration for the Science Blogging Conference is open, it is time to remind you that the new edition of the Science Blogging Anthology, "Open Laboratory 2007", is in the works and is accepting your suggestions.
Although the entire process, from the initial idea all the way to having a real book printed and up for sale, took only about a month, the Open Laboratory 2006 was a great success. This year, we have much more time so we hope we will do an even better job of it.
More than 100 entries have come in so far (see under the fold) and we are looking for more. I have read them all and written my annotations about each, while Reed Cartwright is in the process of reading them closely as we speak. In the end, he will be the final aribiter of which 50 posts, plus one poem and one cartoon, will make it into the anthology. Think of me as a 'series editor' and Reed as the '2007 editor'.
As we are bloggers, we like transparency. As much as the automated submission form makes our lives easy, we decided that it would be best if, like last year, we made the list of entries public. That way, you can all see them, read them, comment about them, and see what is missing and needs to be entered before the deadline comes (December 20th 2007).
Please, use the submission form to enter your submissions (i.e., putting a link in the comments of this post will not do you any good) and pick up the code for the cool badges (like the one on top of this post) here to help us spread the word.
As I wrote earlier:
Clicking on the button will take you to the submission form. Reed and I will get e-mail notification every time there is a new entry and we will read them all and jot down some 'notes to self'. Since we have ten months to do this, we will not need a jury of 12 bloggers to help us read all the entries, but do not be surprised if we ask you to vet/factcheck/peer-review a post that is in your domain of expertise (and not ours) later in the year.
So, go back to December 20th, 2006 and start looking through your archives as well as archives of your favourite science bloggers and look for real gems - the outstanding posts. Many have been written recently for the "Science Only Week", or for the "Basic Terms and Concepts" collection.
Try to look for posts that cover as many areas of science blogging as posssible: mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, chemistry, earth science, atmospheric/climate science, marine science, biochemistry, genetics, molecular/cellular/developmental biology, anatomy/physiology, behavior, ecology, paleontology, evolution, psychology, anthropology, archaeology, and/or history of science, philosophy of science, sociology of science, science ethics and rhetorics, science communication and education, the business of science, the Life in Academia (from undergraduate, graduate, postdoc, faculty or administrative perspective), politics of science, science and pseudoscience, science and religion, etc.
Also, try to think of different post formats: essays, personal stories, poems, polemics, fiskings, textbook-style prose, etc. For now, let's assume that color images cannot make it into the book (I'll let you know if that changes) and certainly copyrighted (by others) material is a No-No. Posts that are too heavily reliant on multiple links are difficult to turn into hardcopy as well. Otherwise, write and submit stuff and hopefully one of your posts will make it into the Best 50 Science Posts of 2007 and get published!
Under the fold are the entries so far. About half have been submitted by authors, the rest by readers. I hope you don't need to ask us to remove an entry of yours, but if that is the case (e.g., you intend to include it in your own book), please contact me about it.
Reading all the entries so far will help you think of other posts, yours or others', that may fit in here. Perhaps a big story of this year is not covered in any of the submissions so far. Perhaps you remember a post which covers a story better than the entry we already have. Have we missed a really popular post that everyone loved and linked to?
Also, if you are an expert in an area and you have BIG problems with one of the entries in your field, please let us know soon so we can send it out for further peer-review. As was the case last year, only English-language posts are eligible. If you have written an awesome post in another language, please make a GOOD translation available before submission.
I will occasionally update this post as new entries keep coming in, so keep coming back every week or so to see what is new. The entries are arranged in alphabetical order of the name of the blog (because all attempts at categorization failed), which makes it easy to get my own out of the way first, and let you go on quickly to see all the really cool writers of the science blogosphere. If a blog has multiple contributors, the author of the submitted post(s) is named in parentheses.
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A Blog Around The Clock (and no, not all of my posts were submitted by myself!)
Basics: Biological Clock
A Huge New Circadian Pacemaker Found In The Mammalian Brain
Sex On The (Dreaming) Brain
A Pacemaker Is A Network
Framing Science - the Dialogue of the Deaf
A Cat Nap
University and depression, Part I: the undergrad years
A Hot Cup of Joe
The Bosnian Pyramid: a Brief Summary
The Rise of the Sumerian Culture
Aardvarchaeology
Your Folks, My Folks in Prehistory
Absinthe
Retention of American Women in Science
Adamant
Adventures in Applied Math
Aetiology
Egnor just doesn't know when to quit
Would you give your baby someone else's breast milk?
Environmental Change and Infectious Disease
Introduction to Marburg virus: history of outbreaks
Afarensis
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times
Anterior Commissure
Thanks, Dad - behave well and you may shape your kids' lives forever, Thanks, Dad - you're a changed man and Thanks, Dad - the paternal brain and his selfish genes fused into a single article.
'Sex? Yes please' - a primates-only dissociation between sex and reproduction
Why we bond - Individual recognition, evolution, and brain size
Anthropology.net (Kambiz Kamrani)
Reconstructing Prehistoric Behavior & Ecology of Northern Fur Seals
Archy
Visiting the Wenas mammoth
Looking for drowned mammoths
Backreaction
The World's Largest Microscope
The Marketplace of Ideas
Bad Astronomy
Is it hot in here, or is it just me?
Balancing Life
What does it take to be a pioneering scientist
Why is a PhD this long and hard
Behavioral Ecology Blog
Why theists make poor scientists
Catalogue of Organisms
Insects Never Fail to Amaze
Relict Frog Sex
Cosmic Variance (Sean Carroll)
Cosmic Variance (Heather Ray)
Cosmic Variance (Daniel Holz)
Creek Running North
River of fire, river of stone
Breathing in, breathing out
Cumbrian Sky
Daily Kos (Darksyde)
A Rose By Any Other Name
When Good Cells Go Bad
Daily Kos (Mark H)
Darwin says just so
DC's Goodscience
Science in an Age of Endarkenment
Deep-Sea News
Our Ocean Future: The Glass Half Empty and Our Ocean Future: The Glass Half Full fused into a single article.
De Rerum Natura
Logarithmic Gap Costs Decrease Alignment Accuracy
Dr. NO and the world of science
Can we truly understand signalling networks?
Duas Quartunciae
Effect Measure
H5N1 Crystal Ball is Cloudy
Tamiflu resistance: digging beneath the headlines
Enro, scientifique et citoyen
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes: homage to a scientific style
Epidemiology of Cancer
ERV
Careful with that Creationist Claim! Its an antique!
Evolgen
Nonoverlapping Magisteria and Extremism
Science & Technology
I Got Your Distribution Right Here
Mutation
The Lab Fridge
Evolving Thoughts
Atheism and agnosticism again
The Song of the Scientist
FairerScience Web Blog
News Media Spreads the Wrong News, Again
Freethinker's Asylum
History News Network (Alun Salt)
The Orientation of Roman Camps
Hodges model: Welcome to the QUAD
Hodges model: What is it? [3] The science of sailing...
Hope for Pandora
Objectivity in Studying Abortion
Not So Extinct
Humans in Science
(multimedia sounds of digestion here)
Angiogenesis
Foie gras might promote arthritis, Alzheimer's or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Hypography Science Forums
Re: Terra Preta, Time to Master the Carbon Cycle
Inkblot Earth
Invasive Species Weblog
Island of Doubt
Knowing and Doing
Good Writing, Good Programming
Hype, or Disseminating Results?
Lab Life
Laboratorytalk
It is a cliche that the world is getting smaller, but...
Laelaps
Homo sapiens: The Evolution of What We Think About Who We Are
Thylacoleo carnifex, ancient Australia's marsupial lion
Convergence or Parallel Evolution?
Life of a Lab Rat
Living the Scientific Life
A Rare Dodo Comes to Light
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day
The Return of the Rimatara Lory or Rimatara Lorikeets: Returning From the Edge
Minor Revisions
N@ked Under My Lab Coat
Neurophilosophy
The rise and fall of the prefrontal lobotomy
An illustrated history of trepanation
Neurotopia
The Basics: History of Hormone Therapy and Menopause, The Basics: History of Hormone Therapy and Menopause and The Basics of Menopause and Hormone Therapy III: Cognitive Consequences, either each alone, or all three fused into a single article.
Nonoscience (Arunn)
Nano-aluminium and Rocket Science
Scientific Mahabharatha
Halogen Family - a science and fiction toon
Serendi-pity
Objectives of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
How to quickly cool a bottle of drink using seven equations
Northstate Science
More On Ham's Creation Museum, Tyrannosaur Teeth And The Scientific Process
Hadza Diary
Not Exactly Rocket Science
An entire bacterial genome discovered inside that of a fruit fly
Notes from Ukraine
The Chernobyl liquidators: incredible men with incredible stories (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) and Musings about the liquidators fused into a single article.
Q & A about ICARR and Chernobyl
On Being a Scientist and a Woman
One scientist, one yeti
Peanut Butter Cabal
Pharma's Cutting Edge
Pharyngula
Segmentation genes evolved undesigned
We stand awed at the heights our people have achieved
Plog
Pondering Pikaia
Harry Potter Science #1: The Genetics of Wizards, Harry Potter Science #2: Dracorex hogwartsia, Harry Potter Science #3: Conservation Biology, Harry Potter Science #4: The Botany of Wands, Harry Potter Science #5: Kin selection, Harry Potter Science #6: Harry Potter and the Hypertonic Cephalopod, Harry Potter Science #7: Does This Horcrux Make My Soul Look Fat? and Harry Potter Science #8: Scar Biology all fused into a single article.
Successful stats = happy student
Pure Pedantry (Jake Young)
Participation Explains Gender Differences in the Proportion of Chess Grandmasters
Principles of Parsimony
The Tyrannosaurus and the Lettuce: A Parable
RealClimate (Gavin Schmidt)
Respectful Insolence
The deadly deviousness of the cancer cell, or how dichloroacetate (DCA) might fail
Sandwalk
Science To Life
Scienceroll
PTC124, a Drug Against Genetic Diseases: Overview
Pompe disease, a rare but important genetic condition
10 Tips for How to Use Web 2.0 in Medicine
7 Tips: How to track the information you need!
Scientia Natura: Evolution and Rationality
The healing crusade: A skeptic's view
On mental illness and some common misconceptions
Faith healing : Nothing more than wishful thinking
A long time ago...
Sentient Developments
The Fermi Paradox Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, either one of them alone, or all three fused into a single article.
Stranger Fruit
Pithecophobes of the World, Unite! Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV, either one of them alone, or all four fused into a single article.
The 'Verse
The Daily Transcript
The Executioners Thong
Cause and Effectiveness
Science Fried days, hope and hype edition
The Other 95%
What the hell is a chaetognath?! Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 fused into a single article.
Sea Squirt Chics Have No Inhibitions
Anemone's Raise a Tentacle in Support of Evolution
How to Retard Scientific Progress
The Primate Diaries
The Principles of Neurobiotaxis
On the appopriateness of Paul MacLean's 'triune brain' theory
The Pump Handle
Popcorn Lung Coming to Your Kitchen? The FDA Doesn't Want to Know
The Questionable Authority
The limits of tolerance
Adam, Eve, and why they never got married
Species and The Economist
The Scientific Activist
Ask a ScienceBlogger: A Sun Ray a Day....
Bush Administration Bravely Fights the New Communist Threat of Children's Health Insurance
The Tree of Life
Why I am ashamed to have a paper in Science
Adaptationomics Award #1 - Wolbachia DNA sneaking into host genomes
The Voltage Gate
Cutting Down Trees to Save the Forest
Thus Spake Zuska
The Feminist Scientist
Distinguished Schmuck Visits, Misbehaves
Debbie Does Laundry
VWXYNot?
WTTF: Welcome to the future
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