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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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Category: Communication
Let's say you're a book review editor for a large circulation science periodical. You receive books from publishers and you look for scientists with the relevant expertise to write reviews that really engage the content of the books they are...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:45 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Here are some of the thoughts and questions that stayed with me from this session. (Here are my tweets from the session and the session's wiki page.) Among other things, this panel took up the article panelist Lindsey Hoshaw wrote...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:26 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
Here are some of the thoughts and questions that stayed with me from this session. (Here are my tweets from the session and the session's wiki page.) The panelists made a point of stepping away from the scientists vs. bloggers...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:04 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
This, our first week of classes of the Spring semester, also marked the return of regular publication of the daily student newspaper. Since I'm not behind on grading yet (huzzah for the first week of classes!), I picked up yesterday's...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:13 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Session description: Much of the science that goes out to the general public through books, newspapers, blogs and many other sources is not professionally fact checked. As a result, much of the public's understanding of science is based on factual...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:29 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Session description: What is a sellable idea? How do you develop one? Is your idea enough for a book, is there more you can do to develop it, or should it just be a magazine article or series of blog...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:57 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Session description: Debris in the North Pacific Gyre received unprecedented attention in 2009 with voyages from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, Project Kaisei, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Each voyage integrated online outreach into its mission, but emphasized very...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:25 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospheric science
Session description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids - Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of science journalism in the online world. Are blogs and mainstream media the bitter rivals that...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:08 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Current events
I'm not a regular reader of USA Today, but Maria tweeted this story, and I feel like I need to say something about it or else risk leaving it rattling around in my head like marbles under a hubcap: About...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:26 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communication
In this post, I continue working through my thoughts in response to Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum's new book, Unscientific America. In this post, I focus on their discussion of the mainstream media and of the blogosphere. You might guess,...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:25 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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