Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
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With this post, I say goodbye to ScienceBlogs....
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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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With this post, I say goodbye to ScienceBlogs....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:00 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Today Americans for Medical Progress has announced two recipients for academic year 2010-2011 of the Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach, designed to inspire and motivate the next generation of research advocates. This year, I'm especially wowed by their...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:28 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Scientist/layperson relations
(Click to embiggen) Tomorrow, April 8, 2010, Pro-Test for Science will be holding its second rally in Los Angeles in support of humanely conducted, ethical animal research and the people who conduct it. Their first rally last April drew...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:55 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Observant readers will have noticed that three of my last four posts -- the ones sporting the spiffy Research Blogging icon -- were posts discussing peer-reviewed journal articles. This is a substantially higher proportion of writing about the details of...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:22 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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For those of you who have heard me issue calls for dialogue (not debate) on the subject of research with non-human animals -- especially if you're in the Los Angeles area -- I'm pleased to announce that there's an event...
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And really, why wouldn't you? What could have prepared you for the possibility that reading one would make the other vanish, as if there were some kind of blogular wavefunction collapse? The ScienceBlogs powers that be have been alerted that...
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For those of you who have been following the various online reviews of and reactions to Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum's book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, you may be interested in the Firedoglake Book Salon discussion...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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ScienceBlogs is getting a systems upgrade tonight. Among other things, this means that commenting is being turned off at 7:00 PM EST (although deceptively, the comment forms will still be visible), and new posts won't go up from about 7:00...
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Today Americans for Medical Progress has announced three recipients for academic year 2009-2010 of the Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach, designed to inspire and motivate the next generation of research advocates. From the AMP press release: The importance...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:11 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Remember those prizes 3 Quarks Daily is offering for the best science blogging of the past year? Well, the nominees are now up, including four of my posts:...
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