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I will be going to a scientific conference next week. Believe it or not, this will be the first purely scientific meeting I'll attend since I quit grad school and started blogging (all the others had to do with science...
Posted on May 11, 2008 11:14 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The challenge from skullsinthestars is up - pick up a very old, classic science paper and write a blog post about it. Put it in a proper historical, theoretical, methodological and philosophical context. You can always go back to blogging...
Posted on May 7, 2008 11:36 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go say Hello to ERV (endogenous retro-virus)!...
Posted on April 29, 2008 8:09 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last week in Trieste, immediately after the scienceblogging session at FEST, I helped start a new blog - Via Ginnastica. It will be run by nine room-mates (in an apartment in the Gymnastic Street), all nine graduates of the Science...
Posted on April 25, 2008 7:09 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sheril Kirshenbaum will be on a panel on Science and the New Media at the AAAS Forum On Science And Technology Policy on May 9th and, as bloggers tend to do, she is asking for questions, comments and ideas from...
Posted on April 23, 2008 1:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The second science blogging anthology, the Open Laboratory 2007 is now up for sale on Amazon.com. As the profits will go towards the organization of ScienceOnline'09, it is the best if you guide your readers to buy it directly from...
Posted on April 22, 2008 6:33 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I think I have a profile on Friendster - I don't know, I haven't checked since 2003. I have bare-bones profiles on MySpace, LinkedIn and Change.Org and I will get an e-mail if you "friend" me (and will friend you...
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Posted on April 22, 2008 4:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This explains why Henry is a Blogger:...
Posted on April 12, 2008 6:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A rare blogging event that I will miss, but you should come and meet the local political bloggers and candidates....
Posted on April 11, 2008 1:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bee and Michael and Chad and Eva and Timo and Cameron will be there. And so will I. And many other interesting people. Where? At the Science in the 21st Century conference at the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Ontario) on Sep....
Posted on April 7, 2008 11:04 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ConvergeSouth 2008 is ready to roll: The Web site is online and registration is open: http://2008.convergesouth.com/ We're calling for presentations - see the schedule and apply to present. There's a brand-new Video Walking Tour on Thursday, October 16, with Robert...
Posted on April 7, 2008 10:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
All humans, at some point in their lives, go ahead and die. Ages and causes of death vary widely. Bloggers are humans. All bloggers, at some point in their lives, go ahead and die. Ages and causes of death vary...
Posted on April 6, 2008 1:17 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You must have noticed that there wasn't too much effort on this blog over the past couple of weeks (except for the elaborate and too successful April Fools hoax). I've just been so busy lately. So, here is a quick...
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Posted on April 5, 2008 10:25 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last week, Sheril, Abel and I went to Duke's Terry Sanford Institute on Public Policy to talk about science blogging and other aspects of Science 2.0 to a graduate class on science policy communication taught by Misha Angrist, who dubbed...
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Posted on April 4, 2008 10:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The trip to the UK is shaping up. Sing up here if you want to meet me during that week, or here if you want to meet me at the pub on April 9th (probably this one) or here if...
Posted on April 1, 2008 1:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Words of wisdom (via): The internet isn't a decoration on contemporary society, it's a challenge to it. A society that has an internet is a different kind of society than a society that doesn't. I agree. And people, regardless of...
Posted on March 31, 2008 8:32 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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While I don't think there is such a thing as Internet Addiction, doing this quick test is fun: "Your Internet usage is causing significant problems in your life. You should evaluate the impact of the Internet on your life and...
Posted on March 25, 2008 11:07 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Next Triangle blogger meetup is this Wednesday at 6pm at Milltown (307 E. Main St., Carrboro). It is organized by our friends at Orange Politics, for several years the model for local political organizing online. It is likely some...
Posted on March 24, 2008 2:59 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Teaching Your Spouse or Lover to Speak Serbian It literally rained mud here last Tuesday Tales of buffoonery, keys Can Technology make us Happy? I will never watch The Simpsons again The stupid, it burns EMAIL I wish I had...
Posted on March 24, 2008 1:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And that is like half of Pleistocene in blogyears.......
Posted on March 23, 2008 11:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you live in the UK and would like to meet me on April 9th, go here to organize - add a comment with your preferences of place/time/menu/events.......
Posted on March 22, 2008 9:00 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Emergence Among the Trees The actual world needs better writers ...but is it the opiate of the masses? In safe hands Alan Keyes and other third party news Sometimes I Cannot Believe What We Have Allowed to be Done in...
Posted on March 22, 2008 5:44 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I know it's an arbitrary number, but it still looks cool: (Apparently, the 1000000th and the 1000001st visitors arrived simultaneously). Back when I just started I never thought this was even possible. The millionth visitor came here from Oakland, California,...
Posted on March 21, 2008 11:57 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Denialism blog has a new co-blogger. Go say Hello to PalMD....
Posted on March 20, 2008 10:29 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pre-accountability Getting Jaked Space Kimchi (but can they fix sarma on the Space Station?) Flare Research - Well damn... When Life Needs Porpoise Live from Seattle: Fatal intracerebral mass bleeding edition So my lovely oldest is 16 and a half......
Posted on March 20, 2008 12:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In one of those "if you like this you may also like this" e-mails from Amazon.com, I got a suggestion I may like a book called Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers. So, I took a...
Posted on March 18, 2008 11:51 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Scenes from the science fair Funerals Make Me Glad to Be an Atheist Laurie Garrett talks global health at U of Iowa Small Bodied Humans From Palau Chinese Water Torture Wheat and climate change The Quail and They can hide,...
Posted on March 18, 2008 11:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Are you Okay? A Definition of Insanity Eastern Bunny Imposter Syndrome and Imposter Syndrome part 2 Why, yes, it IS my job Frog hot spots This week's educational rant Greener Grass Wireless Balloons The Problem of Growth I'm a Wikipedia...
Posted on March 17, 2008 11:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Funny... Facebook: Community for Loners Would You Prefer Stupidity Or Apathy With Your Incompetence? and Birth Of A Nation Paralyzed Bad Science Journalism: The Myth of the Oppressed Underdog and Statisticians are verifiably insane Do periods of rest improve learning?...
Posted on March 16, 2008 8:35 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Visualizing biblical social networks (via) Publishing and blogging pseudonymously. What to carry with you when you go birding? What blogs do journalists read? And the Science of Getting Money Out of Rich People Vibrations make you sleepy (as in a...
Posted on March 16, 2008 10:07 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just a reminder that you can make me your friend on Facebook, as well as join the groups of fans of A Blog Around The Clock, or the ScienceBlogs Fan Club or the PLoS group. I am also on Dopplr,...
Posted on March 15, 2008 7:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The SuperReaders, site-wide around scienceblogs.com, have been selected. I had considered a number of people (some contacted me, I contacted some), some said No, and after a long and hard deliberation (it was tough, I wish I could have chosen...
Posted on March 14, 2008 8:45 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Toronto SciBarCamp starts tonight and I am so jealous for not being there. Perhaps next time. For now, I'll just follow it via blogs....
Posted on March 14, 2008 11:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday we had our first blogger meetup since the Conference, the Triangle bloggers jointly with the NC science communicators. Who was there? Anton Zuiker, Russ Campbell, Brian Russell, Ernie Hood, Chris Brodie, Abel Pharmboy and Lenore Ramm who took the...
Posted on March 13, 2008 10:03 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David Neiwert: But I also noticed this line: "Unlike traditional, mainstream media, blogs often adopt a specific point of view. Critics complain they can contain unchecked facts, are poorly edited and use unreliable sources." And this distinguishes them from the...
Posted on March 13, 2008 9:29 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
SCONC Second Wednesday AND the BlogTogether bloggers meetup will occur jointly this month, at Tyler's Taproom, Durham! Does science make you thirsty? Jargon got you down? Want to kick back with other SCONCs? We're here for you. Come hang with...
Posted on March 9, 2008 10:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Congratulations to Rev. BigDumbChimp for posting the 8000th comment on this blog!...
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Today is PZ Myers' 51st birthday. We've done it last year and the year before. As I did last time, I will collect a linkfest of all the posts - especially those that use the LOLCats generator (Greg has collected...
Posted on March 9, 2008 12:03 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
DrugMonkey, Nick, Afarensis, Chad and John explain it better, but in short, each SciBling needs to pick two regular readers who will, over a longish period of time in the future, tag (in delicious, with a special tag) three site-wide...
Posted on March 8, 2008 6:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...the intertubes. Busy week. Here are some good links: Leaving your literary estate to the public domain: This page has been circulating around the Web in recent days (apparently since February 26 or later). It depicts a sticker which an...
Posted on March 6, 2008 7:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go say Hello to Jane at See Jane Compute!...
Posted on March 6, 2008 10:13 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Regular readers must be familiar by now with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Today's news from the school - their students have put up the first issue of their online newspaper, the ZSX-Press. Go check it out! In related news,...
Posted on March 6, 2008 8:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go say Hello to Josh Donlan, the new co-blogger on Shifting Baselines who will add a terrestrial component to the marine stuff already there. Josh's arrival is also bound to provoke some interesting blogging around the scienceblogs.com, as his ideas...
Posted on March 3, 2008 8:58 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Retrospectacle and Omni Brain, as of now, have officially fused into the new, double-headed scibling - Of Two Minds. Go say Hello!...
Posted on March 3, 2008 8:58 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Under the fold, as the movie appears to slow down loading of my front page:...
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Posted on March 2, 2008 11:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The proposal for link journalism is not a new concept, though the phrase is good. This is something that bloggers have been doing for years and have been imploring the corporate media to adopt for years. On paper, you can...
Posted on March 2, 2008 5:54 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sue announces that the website will be up in two weeks, and the blog is already up and running. You can help with organization. In any case, mark you calendars: ConvergeSouth 2008 will be held on October 16-17, 2008 in...
Posted on March 2, 2008 4:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just try this link: http://scienceborg.com...
Posted on February 29, 2008 3:41 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
First, the interviews will continue....when I get some answers from one of the six people I sent questions to.... I will also be sending questionnaires to more people soon. Second, there are some responses now to the 1-2-3, the Goosed/Book...
Posted on February 28, 2008 4:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A blog is software. Importantly: a blog is free software. Everyone can use it in any way they want. If there are 100 million blogs out there, there are 100 million blogging styles and 100 million ideas what blogging "is"....
Posted on February 27, 2008 9:36 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As John quips, who is crazy to try to blog around a clock like Coturnix? Not me, for sure. But Arunn is, at least for one day! In the past 24 hours Arunn has posted 15 (fifteen!) posts on his...
Posted on February 27, 2008 9:57 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go say Hello to Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science...
Posted on February 25, 2008 7:44 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you attended the Science Blogging Conference or read what people blogged about it, or said about it in subsequent interviews, you know how much fun it is to meet your favourite bloggers in real life. You gain a new...
Posted on February 25, 2008 9:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mico Tatalovic of Blue Sci, the Cambridge's popular science magazine, interviewed me back in April 2007 and wrote an article on science blogging based on that interview. It came out in the Issue #9 as a PDF in October, and...
Posted on February 23, 2008 11:36 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chez describes how and why CNN fired him for blogging and then piles on! Spread the word. The old media needs to learn to respect the people formerly known as audience....
Posted on February 22, 2008 11:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This blog has just been notified that a bank in Sierra Leone has...nope, no millions of dollars in spam-money. Something much better - Maryannaville gave us the Excellent Blogger Award! Thank you! Recepients of this award can proudly place this...
Posted on February 22, 2008 12:37 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards March 27-28, 2008 Chapel Hill, NC Discovering scholarly information and data is essential for research and use of the content that the information community is producing and making available. The development of knowledge...
Posted on February 21, 2008 10:16 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wow! Al Upton teaches kids aged 8 and 9 and he is teaching them how to run their own blogs. Each young blogger also gets an adult mentor and you can sign up to be a mentor if you want....
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Wow! Al Upton teaches kids aged 8 and 9 and he is teaching them how to run their own blogs. Each young blogger also gets an adult mentor and you can sign up to be a mentor if you want....
Posted on February 21, 2008 9:49 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sue and Ed are starting to plan the fourth ConvergeSouth and are asking the community to help with the planning....
Posted on February 19, 2008 7:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In my daily interviews I always ask: what new blogs did you discover at the Conference? If anyone asked me that question - and you know it's hard to surprise me! - one I'd pick would be the INFO Project...
Posted on February 19, 2008 5:05 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
(from here; hat-tip) Or perhaps Gabe has been right all along and I am not really a science blogger.......
Posted on February 18, 2008 10:49 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Ed Cone (also see SteveK and McDawg) I see that CNN did Teh Stupid - they fired their producer Chez Sapienza. Why? Because he is blogging! On his own blog as well as on HuffPo. He writes about the...
Posted on February 14, 2008 5:03 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yes, I know, Scienceblogs.com is The Borg. But we like our little sister, the Nature Network and they have made some impressive strides over their first year in existence: Nature Network turns 1 today: progress report Happy 1st Birthday! Happy...
Posted on February 14, 2008 4:35 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yes, that time has come....Going it alone in 2006 was far too much work for one person. Reed Cartwright was the first guest editor in 2007 and this was a perfect solution. So, going on into the new year and...
Posted on February 13, 2008 7:58 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Our Seed Overlords need to know more about our readers. Please do a quick survey and put your name in the hat to win an iPod....
Posted on February 13, 2008 6:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go say Hello to Alice Pawley, the new co-blogger on On Being a Scientist and a Woman. Post a comment on her inaugural post....
Posted on February 9, 2008 11:13 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Go say Hi to Jessica Palmer of Bioephemera!...
Posted on February 7, 2008 9:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
....Scienceblogs.com Busy today. What are the others writing about? Abel Pharmboy and DrugMonkey discuss the causes of death of Heath Ledger. Nature had some articles about ScienceDebate 2008 and got it all wrong. I agree with what John Lynch wrote....
Posted on February 6, 2008 10:07 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There were already two Science Foo Camps (in summers of 2006 and 2007) and two Science Blogging Conferences (in winters of 2007 and 2008). But the hunger for such meetings is far from satiated. So, if you have time and...
Posted on February 5, 2008 5:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Two books - Facebook: The Missing Manual and Wikipedia: The Missing Manual arrived in my mailbox today. How did I get them? By being on Facebook, getting a message from the O'Reilly Facebook group and being one of the...
Posted on February 5, 2008 1:44 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
