Check Out Meredith on TV This Sunday!
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Sunday, January 10th, at 10 pm on the Smithsonian Channel: "Zoo Vets: Claws, Paws, and Fins"
Posted on: January 8, 2010 9:07 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
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New UCLA Pro-Test Chapter Announces April 22nd Rally
Category: Pro-Test
Intimidated into silence no longer, UCLA scientists are standing up for research and speaking out against animal rights extremism.
Posted on: March 30, 2009 10:21 AM, by Nick Anthis • 17 Comments •
ScienceBlogs One Millionth Comment Party in London
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Saturday, 20 September, at the Calthorpe Arms
Posted on: September 11, 2008 11:35 PM, by Nick Anthis • 14 Comments •
Are You a Scientist Interested in Getting More Involved in the Political Process?
Category: events
SEA is sponsoring a workshop that may interest you on May 10th in Washington, DC.
Posted on: March 29, 2008 2:52 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Blog Action Day on the Environment: October 15th
Category: blogosphere
Tomorrow, 15 October, is the inaugural Blog Action Day. This means that thousands of bloggers from across the internet will publish posts on a single topic: the environment. So far over 14,000 blogs have signed up, with an estimated audience...
Posted on: October 14, 2007 1:50 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge 2007: Let's Raise Some Money for Science Classrooms!
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It's that time of the year again, so give early and give often!
Posted on: October 1, 2007 9:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Free DonorsChoose Gift Certificates Available from Six Apart Until Noon Today
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This announcement is related to another bigger one that's coming in just a few hours. Six Apart (who runs MovableType, the blogging platform we use at ScienceBlogs) is giving away $30 philanthropic gift certificates for use on DonorsChoose. The only...
Posted on: October 1, 2007 7:01 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
My Upcoming Texas Aggie Democrats Talk on Blogs in Politics
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At Texas A&M University this Wednesday, 5 September, at 8:30 pm in Rudder 502.
Posted on: September 4, 2007 2:50 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Political Blogging Seminar in Oxford
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This Wednesday at noon.
Posted on: August 6, 2007 11:37 AM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Chris Mooney in Houston, Texas
Category: books
This one is for my readers in Texas, particularly those in the greater Houston area. Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science and blogger at The Intersection, will be in Houston this week to promote his new book...
Posted on: July 15, 2007 6:14 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Results of DonorsChoose Challenge
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The ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge is now officially over, and Janet Stemwedel has the results at Adventures in Ethics and Science: 195 of you made donations. Together, those donations added up to $16,097.27. You also helped 4 of the 19 challenges meet...
Posted on: July 2, 2006 6:10 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
DonorsChoose Update
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The latest word on the ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose fundraising challenge is that as of Tuesday the total amount of donations had reached $12,325.59, plus $10,000 in matching funds from Seed. Here at The Scientific Activist we've raised $345.00 in generous donations, bringing...
Posted on: June 22, 2006 7:08 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge Off to a Great Start
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As I've spent my entire weekend alternatively sitting in front of a ginormous magnet running NMR experiments and in front of a computer screen analyzing the data from those experiments, the blogging has unfortunately been light. However, I just wanted...
Posted on: June 18, 2006 8:40 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Help ScienceBlogs Raise Money for Science Classrooms
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DonorsChoose.org gives us a way to help teachers get the job done. A bunch of us at ScienceBlogs have set up Bloggers Challenges which will let us (and that includes you) contribute to worthy school projects in need of financial assistance. We'll be able to track our progress right on the DonorsChoose site. And -- because we like a little friendly competition -- we'll be updating you periodically as to which blogger's readers are getting his or her challenge closest to its goal.
Posted on: June 15, 2006 9:15 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Nobel Laureate Robert Huber to Give Talk at Oxford
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This is a plug for an event that the Oxford University Biochemical Society is putting together. This Monday, June 12th, at 4:00 pm the Oxford University Biochemical Society will be hosting a talk by Nobel Laureate Robert Huber in the...
Posted on: June 10, 2006 10:04 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
