Advice and Advocacy
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UK government sacks a scientific advisor for saying that 'evidence-based' drugs classification not supported by evidence.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:07 PM • 1 Comments •
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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Registration is now open for ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual science communicators conference, being held January 14-17 next year in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. Please join us for this free (but donations are accepted) three-day event...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:20 PM • 1 Comments •
Blogging, tweeting and conferences
Category: conferences
Does it work? Can it work?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:50 PM • 2 Comments •
Chris on the radio
Category: bloggery
Completely out of the blue, I've asked to participate in a discussion on natural disasters on the BBC World Service. The topic is presumably prompted by the two recent large earthquakes near Samoa and Indonesia, and it seems they...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:29 AM • 6 Comments •
Science Online - the London Edition
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Bloggers get together and get excited about webby stuff.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:20 PM • 7 Comments •
Scientists Singing Science
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Effective learning through the medium of Johnny Cash?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 5:30 PM • 2 Comments •
What is education for, anyway?
Category: public science
It's about more than passing tests - if we do it right.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Note to media: "speculation" is not a synonym for "discovery"
Category: ranting
breathless reporting from the AAAS conference is starting to annoy me.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:48 AM • 7 Comments •
Learn about our planet - it's the only one we've got
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Whilst we're on the subject of listening to what geology can teach us, Grrlscientist has uncovered a pretty cool video, entitled 'Why Geology?', from the American Geological Institute. There's something that might be a magnetometer hidden in there somewhere -...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:45 PM • 2 Comments •
The rightful place of science: putting us in ours
Category: environment
Science doesn't need to be placed anywhere, it just needs us to listen to what it tells us.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:54 AM • 10 Comments •
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