Science Reporting:
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
The new edition (first online edition) of Scope, the MIT Grad Program in Science Writing's student webzine, is out (hat-tip to Tom) with several great articles. Check out, for instance, Words (Just Might) Hurt Me: The Trouble with 'Theory'....
Posted on March 22, 2008 8:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Should we have a third culture?: The present problems with science communication are not only a result of mediocre writing skills or the diminished view of popularization the some scientists take. The public, aptly described as "consumers," have not developed...
Posted on March 19, 2008 11:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When we see a brain 'light up,' [most of] our brains shut off which explains The functional neuroanatomy of science journalism....
Posted on March 15, 2008 7:39 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
Got an e-mail from AAAS and will try to go if at all possible: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and North Carolina State University, will be holding a...
Posted on March 14, 2008 11:24 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
News from SCONC: On Thursday, March 27 at 4 p.m., the Zoology Department at NCSU will host a seminar from Patricia Brennan of Yale University entitled "The Biology of Avian Genitalia: Form and Function." Brennan's work on the genital anatomy...
Posted on March 7, 2008 7:29 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
News from SCONC: Linda Buck is the Nobel-Prize winner that may live farthest from NC (but still in the U.S.). She will give a seminar Monday, March 10 at 4 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Talley Center at...
Posted on March 4, 2008 7:38 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
News from SCONC: Oliver Smithies is the Nobel-Prize winner next door. A professor at UNC for almost 20 years, Smithies got the nod from Stockholm last fall. He will give a seminar at the Friday Center on Thursday March 6...
Posted on March 3, 2008 7:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The March SCONC meeting will be Wednesday, March 5, at 6 p.m. at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in RTP. The evening will include presentations on how NIEHS research impacts public health, the new NIEHS Web site...
Posted on March 2, 2008 3:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You may remember a few days ago I posted a link to the list of Obsolete skills (the links were to this post, this wiki and this wiki). The growing list is certainly fun to read and check off your...
Posted on February 24, 2008 11:28 PM • 20 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
I've heard this one last year (02.16.2007) but heard it again today (it will probably re-air tomorrow - check your local NPR station) - the This American Life episode about Quiz Shows. It was composed of three stories: The first...
Posted on February 2, 2008 4:14 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Duke Medical Center News Office is seeking a Sr. Science News Writer to be responsible for planning, developing, implementing and analyzing strategic comprehensive and diversified media relations programs and tactics. Through direct support of Duke Medicine strategic objectives...
Posted on January 23, 2008 11:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Abel PharmBoy: Herding cats and framing science What he says....
Posted on January 23, 2008 7:43 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dave and Co. have been working hard over the past few months and now (actually on Saturday at the Conference) Dave announces that ResearchBlogging.org is live and in action! The BPR3 site, where the entire initiative was hashed out and...
Posted on January 23, 2008 9:48 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Science Communication Consortium presents: DISCUSSION ON THE ROLES OF EMERGING MEDIA OUTLETS IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE Thursday, JAN 31st, 7-8:30pm Mount Sinai School of Medicine, East Building Seminar Room (1425 Madison Ave at 98th St, NYC) A discussion of how...
Posted on January 22, 2008 7:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David writes: Community is no longer a dirty or scary word. Sciam, Seed, in the US, Germany and all over the world. Online communities are becoming understood and a valued commodity. When Google bought YouTube I said the price they...
Posted on December 4, 2007 11:48 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The editors of American Scientist magazine invite you to join them next week for the current installment of the fabled Pizza Lunch Seminar. This time, they have invited Alan Finkel, a neurologist at UNC Hospital, to describe his studies on...
Posted on November 30, 2007 5:14 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's been a while since I came back from Boston, but the big dinosaur story kept me busy all last week so I never managed to find time and energy to write my own recap of the Harvard Conference. Anna...
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Posted on November 21, 2007 11:47 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The fifth Science Festival is going on right now in Genoa, Italy. It is a longish affair, from 25th October till 6th November, so if you just happen to be in the area you can still make it. They have...
Posted on November 1, 2007 11:24 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may have seen this, this and this, i.e., an effort to design an icon that a blogger can place on the top of a post that discusses peer-reviewed research. The...
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Posted on October 29, 2007 9:25 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nobel Prizes are not the only awards given in Stockholm these day. Karolinska Institute also gives an annual Lennart Nilsson Award for photography. This year's prize has just been announced and I am happy to report that the recepient is...
Posted on October 17, 2007 9:17 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Before two papers passed the peer-review and got published, WHO (which was given the data) made its own interpretation of the findings and included it in its press kit, including the errors they made in that interpretation. A complex story...
Posted on October 3, 2007 2:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yes, I'll be there this Friday. Come by and say Hello if you are in the building or close at lunchtime....
Posted on October 1, 2007 10:42 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If I was not already scheduled to appear on a panel in Wisconsin at the same time, I would have loved to go to this: The fourth Image and Meaning workshop, IM2.4, part of the Envisioning Science Program at Harvard's...
Posted on September 3, 2007 6:34 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The BPR3 icon contest just got even richer. It's worth your time and energy!...
Posted on August 29, 2007 11:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dave announced that the contest for the icon for denoting posts covering peer-reviewed research is now open. Use your creative skills and/or spread the word....
Posted on August 24, 2007 8:45 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Maxine Clarke: In printing the statement verbatim every week as we have done, making it clear when it originated, we have hitherto assumed that readers will excuse the wording in the interests of historical integrity. But feedback from readers of...
Posted on August 21, 2007 5:04 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Video is taking over science communication. And why not? Now that paper is outdated, the limitations of that ancient technology should not apply to scientific publishing any more. Just because paper cannot support movies does not mean that modern scientific...
Posted on August 20, 2007 6:39 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why are all the cool meetings happening all in the same week? On top of three I will attend, there is another one I just heard of that sound really cool: The fourth Image and Meaning workshop, IM2.4, part of...
Posted on August 12, 2007 3:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Michael Hopkin interviewed Al Jean, the executive producer of The Simpsons show, about math and science, sometimes central, sometimes hidden, in the episodes of everyone's favourite show......
Posted on July 26, 2007 2:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Duke University, after years of being behind the curve, is now striving mightily to establish itself as a leader in online science communication. As a recent news article shows, the school is activelly encouraging its students to keep blogs and...
Posted on July 22, 2007 1:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This post was a response to a decent (though not too exciting) study and the horrible media reporting on it. As the blogosphere focused on the press releases, I decided to look at the paper itself and see what it...
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Posted on July 4, 2007 8:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You probably know by now, but you can access for free (at least for a couple of days) a whole slew of articles about evolution on the Science page of New York Times. Most are excellent, as usual (hey, it's...
Posted on June 26, 2007 9:53 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So, Anton Zuiker and I went yesterday to the Talking To The Public panel discussion at Duke, organized by Sigma Xi, The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. There is...
Posted on June 23, 2007 11:57 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am looking in the closet to see if I can find my tie, because I am going to this in an hour - a very bloggable event: A Lunch and Panel Discussion TALKING TO THE PUBLIC: How Can Media...
Posted on June 22, 2007 10:22 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You may be aware of the ongoing discussion about the tense relationship between scientists and science journalists. Here is the quick rundown of posts so far: Question for the academic types--interview requests The Mad Biologist and Science Journalists Science Journalists...
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Posted on June 20, 2007 6:33 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 2006 Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports were released today. Mark Patterson reports on the PLoS journals, three of which have made it to the list for the first time, as they are too new, so their ratings are based...
Posted on June 20, 2007 2:49 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This one? Or this one? Framing Science is not just verbal. Visual aspects are also important....
Posted on June 18, 2007 1:38 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday, PLoS-ONE celebrated the publication of the 500th paper (and additional 13). Here are some quick stats: 1,411 submissions 513 published paper 360 member editorial board and growing 19 day average acceptance to publication 600+ post publication comments posted I...
Posted on June 6, 2007 11:07 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It is high time a blogger wins this prize, don't you think? If you are in Europe or Israel, and you have a life-science blog, apply for this award: EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences Call for entries...
Posted on May 31, 2007 9:39 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Nisbet/Mooney Speaking Science 2.0 talk is now up on YouTube, as well as here under the fold:...
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Posted on May 30, 2007 10:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Remember back in November, when everyone got excited about JoVe (the Journal of Visulized Experiments)? Well, it is not alone in its niche any more. There is now another site similar to that: Lab Action. Of course I homed in...
Posted on May 29, 2007 9:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In small, easily-digestible chunks: Re-Framing Science While Chris Mooney's Away.. Framing II: Weapons in the Form of Words Framing III: Happy Feet Framing IV: The Lorax Phenomenon Please go, read and try to comment (politely if you can)......
Posted on May 23, 2007 5:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Fly Spontaneous Behavior paper is generating quite a lot of buzz. Bjorn has collected some of the best blogospheric responses, including these from Mark Chu-Carroll, Mark Hoofnagle and Kate. He also got Slashdotted - of course, whoever posted that...
Posted on May 17, 2007 4:32 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chris and Matt just announced their tour as well as a scienceblogs.com page dedicated solely to Speaking Science 2.0. You can check out the original blogospheric responses here (there have been only a few comments since I quit updating that...
Posted on May 7, 2007 8:47 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Three out of ten Republican presidential candidates raised hands in the recent debate indicating they do not believe in evolution. Jason has an excellent round-up of responses (Arianna Huffington rocks!) with some good comments by readers as well. How can...
Posted on May 6, 2007 2:41 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Making the second Science Blogging Conference even bigger and better, we are happy to announce that the January 19th, 2008 meeting will be hosted by Sigma Xi (publishers of American Scientist) in their gorgeous new building in the Research Triangle...
Posted on May 4, 2007 5:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Arunn and Selva are wondering why more Indian scientists don't write blogs, while Danica wonders the same about Serbian scientists. I guess every nation will have its own idiosyncratic ways of getting there, but it is also important to note...
Posted on May 4, 2007 9:26 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is a new (nice and long) article by Laura Bonetta about science blogging in today's issue of the journal Cell. Bloggers on A Blog Around The Clock, Pharyngula, Aetiology, Framing Science, The Daily Transcript, Sandwalk, In the Pipeline, Nobel...
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Posted on May 3, 2007 10:21 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NPR has started a year-long series on climate called Climate Connections. The other day, they broadcast the first in a series of their educational segments, starting at the very beginning: the carbon atom. You can read the intro here and...
Posted on May 3, 2007 1:04 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Of course, I was not the only one commenting on the recent duck phallus paper. You should check out the other blogospheric responses, e.g., by Carl, PZ, RPM, Grrrl, Laelaps, Neil, Belle, Zuzu, Guru and many others. Unfortunately, most people...
Posted on May 3, 2007 12:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Update: The issue has been resolved amicably and Shelley has some further thoughts. And some even more further thoughts. The discussion will continue here on Scienceblogs and elsewhere in the follwoing days.... If you read other Scienceblogs and not just...
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Posted on April 26, 2007 12:53 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is a job opening for a science writer at Analytical Chemistry. If you are a science writer, or you know any science writers (or people who want to be science writers) who want to live in the DC area...
Posted on April 25, 2007 8:33 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science publisher extends journalists' access: A leading science publisher is granting journalists from developing countries access to its scientific papers that are not otherwise freely available. Elsevier announced the initiative at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Australia last...
Posted on April 24, 2007 10:48 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It has 'Coturnix' written all over it, don't you think? I am even wearing my PLoS t-shirt right now as I am typing this! But, why is it necessary to move to San Francisco? My wife is terrified of earthquakes...
Posted on April 21, 2007 2:04 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science journalists and science communicators who attended the Knight New Media Center Best Practices: Covering Science in Cyberspace seminar in March 2007 collectively wrote a blog during the meeting: Two dozen prominent science journalists and science communicators were invited to...
Posted on April 19, 2007 10:39 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Anton just spent a few days attending the AMA's 27th Annual Medical Communications Conference, where he gave a session about medicine and healthcare blogging. And of course, he blogged about the whole conference here, here, here, here and here. Who...
Posted on April 15, 2007 6:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Truth, All the Truth, and Nothing but the Truth. You are all familiar with the phrase. It actually figures prominently (though unspoken until now) in this whole discussion about framing science. Nobody - absolutely nobody - ever suggests that anything...
Posted on April 13, 2007 10:33 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As you may have noticed, there is a vigorous debate going on in the blogosphere about framing science (all the links to all the relevant posts can be found if you click on that link). For the uninitiated, this may...
Posted on April 10, 2007 11:00 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have updated my uber-long post about framing science. I added a lot more links to the blogospheric responses, as well as my own response to critics at the very bottom of the post. I have also re-posted it as...
Posted on April 8, 2007 4:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Talking about the hermetic cabal of scientists who never let any outsiders in.... Climate change fruitful for fungi: A remarkable father-and-son research project has revealed how rising temperatures are affecting fungi in southern England. Fungus enthusiast Edward Gange amassed 52,000...
Posted on April 8, 2007 3:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My SciBlings Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet just published an article in 'Science' (which, considering its topic is, ironically, behind the subscription wall, but you can check the short press release) about "Framing Science" Carl Zimmer, PZ Myers, Mike Dunford...
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Posted on April 7, 2007 3:33 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I was waiting until the last installment was up to post about this. Revere on Effect Measure took a recent paper about a mathematical model of the spread of anti-viral resistance and wrote a 16-part series leading the readers through...
Posted on April 5, 2007 5:41 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Scientists, as a whole, are very reluctant to write novel ideas, hypotheses or data on blogs, and are very slow to test the waters of Open, Source Publishing. Most of what one finds on science blogs is commentary on other...
Posted on April 5, 2007 9:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The April issue of The Scientist contains a good article on science blogging, titled Scooped by a Blog by David Secko (Vol. 21, Issue 4, page 21) focusing on publishing data on blogs, running an Open Notebook lab online, and...
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Posted on April 3, 2007 6:15 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
