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John Wilkins is an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and worked at the University of Queensland, in Australia, before taking up a research fellowship at the University of Sydney. After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books.

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Posted on: July 12, 2008 1:12 AM, by John S. Wilkins

My paper in TREE is now available as an in-press corrected proof. It is titled "The roles, reasons and restrictions of science blogs", so thanks to you guys (and Bob O'Hara in particular) for the raw material and opportunities.

Did you like this post? If so, please click on the "Share this" link above and add it to your favourite social bookmarking service, or submit it to the Open Laboratory 2009 via the link on the left bottom of the page. Many thanks. John.

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1

Nice article. Is:
"If a blog is not deleted when it becomes active (and it is general good practice that it should not be)"

a mistake, do you mean active?

Posted by: G | July 12, 2008 2:28 PM

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I noticed that typo, too -- I think you meant to write "inactive". Also, I don't think I'd label Dave Munger a medical blogger; he blogs on psychology at cogdaily.

Posted by: RPM | July 13, 2008 3:37 PM

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Too late to fix, I fear. Yes, I meant "inactive". And psych is a subset of medicine, nicht wahr?

Posted by: John S. Wilkins | July 14, 2008 10:38 PM

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And psych is a subset of medicine, nicht wahr?

Nein. Psychiatry is a medical discipline. But psychology and cog-sci are studies of the mind. (In the US, psychiatrists are MDs, while psychologists are PhDs.) Saying psychology is a subset of medicine would be like saying that cell biology is a subset of medicine (at least that's the way I see it).

Posted by: RPM | July 15, 2008 8:33 AM

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RPM wrote:

Saying psychology is a subset of medicine would be like saying that cell biology is a subset of medicine (at least that's the way I see it).

Tell that to the medical students at my local university who have to spend four semesters studying psycology and writing difficult exams on the subject. You could also tell it to my health insurance who pay 120 Euro an hour to have a psycologist treat me for my mental illness :-(

Posted by: Thony C. | July 15, 2008 10:27 AM

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In the U.S. a psychologist does not have to be a PhD. She can have a MPsych, or an MA, MS, MEd. MCouns, as long as she has the required course work and certification. There are two psychologists in my family, one with a PhD and one with a MA. Both work[ed] as school psychologists.

Posted by: Susan Silberstein | July 15, 2008 2:17 PM

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hey wilkins, can you send me a PDF? for some weird reason, i am supposed to purchase the piece to read it. *pouts*

Posted by: "GrrlScientist" | July 24, 2008 3:47 PM

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