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Category: Science Reporting
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Category: Science Reporting
This one is loooong. Sorry....
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Category: Science Reporting
Today, I accepted the invitation to join the editorial board of the Journal of Science Communication. Now I am reviewing my first manuscript.......
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Category: Science Reporting
The new issue of the open access Journal of Science Communication is out. From the Table of Contents: Filling the gap between theory and practice: Jcom's adventure was launched nearly eight years ago, when a group of lecturers and former...
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Category: Science Reporting
There is a new site for you to bookmark today - Futurity.org. This is a collaborative effort of, for now, 35 major Universities in the United States (those include, for my local readers, UNC and Duke - why is NCSU...
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Category: Science Education
Robert Scoble interviews science blogger and author Jennifer Ouellette about the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a "recent initiative by the National Academy of Sciences, was set up to build a new kind of social network of scientists and movie directors."...
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Category: Academia
A run-down of good recent stuff, highly recommended for your weekend reading and bookmarking: PLoS One: Interview with Peter Binfield: ...In my view PLoS ONE is the most dynamic, innovative and exciting journal in the world, and I am...
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Category: Science Reporting
Science Online London is next week. I really wanted to go this year, but hard choices had to be made....eh, well. For those of you who, like me, cannot be there in person, there are plenty of ways to follow...
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Category: Evolution
The Food hypothesis of human evolution was developed by Richard Wrangham, author of "Catching Fire". It was covered recently by my sciblings, including Erin, Razib and Ethan. It was also the topic on last week's Bloggingheads.tv. But now, you can...
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Category: Science Education
A bunch of interesting Twitterers aggregated in NYC a couple of days ago at the 140 characters conference, discussing various aspects of and uses of Twitter. One of the sessions was about Twitter and Science, led by @thesciencebabe and @jayhawkbabe....
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Category: Blogging
You may have noticed a couple of days ago that Caryn Shechtman posted an interview with me on the New York blog on Nature Network. Then, Caryn and Erin and I thought it might be a good idea to have...
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