The rules for this blog meme are quite simple.
-Post the link and first sentence from the first blog entry for each month of the past year.
I did this meme last year, after seeing similar posted by Janet Stemwedel and John Lynch.
- Jan: The OpenAccess Nozdrul are celebrating the Open Access language in a recent Congressional appropriations bill (which Bush has signed into law) requiring NIH funded researchers to place their manuscripts into the PubMed Central (PMC) repository for all to see. [link]
- Feb:Another one for the triumph of idiotic, unsupported public policy "positions" over the science and on-the-ground clinical experience. [link]
- Mar: I'm following up on some blogging resulting from a recent post of mine on the effect Len Bias' death (apparently) had on population level perception of the riskiness of trying cocaine. [link]
- Apr: The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Elias Zerhouni, has scheduled a press conference for later in the day and he is anticipated to announce broad ranging changes in the NIH. [link]
- May: The Centers for Disease Control reported a higher number of measles cases in the US for first quarter 2008 in a recent report [h/t: occasional commenter ddt]. [link]
- Jun: Looking for a more meaty and even tempered discussion of the interaction of science with religion? [link]
- Jul: A paper by Griffiths and colleagues has just appeared in the OnlineFirst archive of the Journal of Psychopharmacology. [link]
- Aug: You are looking for just a little bit of help in triaging your effort for the next grant round. [link]
- Sep: You like eating, yeah? And if you are reading this blog, I assume you like teh flamewars. [link]
- Oct: Introducing the DrugMonkey Reader Challenge at DonorsChoose.org. [link]
- Nov: Lab Lemming asked one of those questions that one thinks is a complete no-brainer. [link]
- Dec: One of the...conceits? tropes? myths? facts? benefits? poorly realized aspirations? of the scientist has been perplexing me today whilst skirmishing elsewhere. [link]
If you join in, and you should even if you have been blogging less than a year, drop a link in the comments.
Comments
Gotta do this - but can I skip the semi-automatic stuff like quotes?
Posted by: Coturnix | December 6, 2008 8:51 PM
can I skip the semi-automatic stuff like quotes?
I think it is entirely fair to skip the stuff that you don't think of as your meaty content, sure.
Posted by: DrugMonkey | December 6, 2008 9:05 PM
*leads standing ovation for a fine year of extremely tasty blogging*
Posted by: becca | December 6, 2008 9:30 PM
I didn't do this in 2007 but here's mine for 2008. Thanks for the kick in the ass.
I closed with why I thought this was a far better exercise for the blogger than the reader. Thanks for the reminder, bro.
Posted by: Abel Pharmboy | December 6, 2008 10:59 PM
Ooh, I like this one. Here's mine.
Posted by: Stephanie Z | December 6, 2008 11:21 PM
Here's mine too. Interesting experience.
Posted by: River Tam | December 6, 2008 11:54 PM
Here's ours too.
Posted by: Dr J | December 7, 2008 2:57 AM
Here's mine. I like this exercise.
Posted by: Lou | December 7, 2008 6:28 AM
Interesting idea/meme DM. Hadn't seen that one before. I think I may give this one a shot.
Posted by: Anonymoustache | December 7, 2008 10:35 AM
Here's mine - easiest post ever!
Posted by: Cath@VWXYNot? | December 8, 2008 5:01 PM
Cool idea ! Thanks. Here is mine.
Posted by: Massimo (aka okham) | December 8, 2008 6:36 PM
I made a lame attempt to soup mine up. Given it wasn't the most compelling material the first time around, I doubt recycling would add to it's intrinsic value. :-)
Posted by: Cherish | December 8, 2008 7:27 PM
Dr. Isis did your meme, except as the twelve months of shoes.
Posted by: Isis the Scientist | December 8, 2008 8:13 PM
I did your meme, also. Thanks!
Posted by: Silver Fox | December 9, 2008 8:49 AM
Woops! Here's the link. Now I'd better get some more coffee...
Posted by: Silver Fox | December 9, 2008 9:02 AM
I did it!
Don't know how to do a raw link, but it's on my name.
Posted by: Harold Asmis | December 9, 2008 2:09 PM
http://physioprof.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/twelve-months-of-comrade-physioprof/
Posted by: Comrade PhysioProf | December 9, 2008 4:18 PM
Great meme. For what it is worth here is mine.
Posted by: hypocentre | December 9, 2008 4:33 PM
Threw mine out there as well
Posted by: CyberLizard | December 11, 2008 4:37 PM
i really liked this meme. so... better late than never (or something..):
http://psiqueii.blogspot.com/2008/12/twelve-months-of-psique.html
Posted by: laura | December 26, 2008 3:34 AM