Aaaaaand we’re up!
Posted by Kevin Bonham on May 23, 2012 Welcome to the new Science Blogs. You might have noticed some changes around here – let us know which changes you like and which you don’t. One of the biggest things affecting your experience is the comment system – you can now reply directly to other people’s comments, and you can login so you don’t…
Test post infinity
Posted by Kevin Bonham on May 22, 2012 
I’ll just leave this post up and edit it as needed when I need to check the features… don’t mind me. Picture:
Technology and Intent
Posted by Kevin Bonham on May 12, 2012 No technology is inherently good or evil, it’s the use of that technology that determines its value. A blade can be used in surgery to save a life, or as a weapon to take one. The ballistics that enable missiles to destroy enemies also enables the launch of communication satellites and exploration of other worlds.…
Harvard Libraries join the fight for open access
Posted by Kevin Bonham on April 24, 2012 A few months ago, I wrote about the problems with academic publishing: These days, there’s an entire industry of academic publishers that have become so fully integrated into the research system that many scientists don’t realize that there’s any distinction between doing science and publishing in journals. However, these journals cost an enormous amount of…
Oil for Food – Microbe Style
Posted by Kevin Bonham on April 20, 2012 Yesterday on Marketplace, there was a great piece by Alex Chadwick on the fate of all the oil released during the BP oil spill two years ago. Oil is a product of organic matter that was deposited many, many years ago. It’s gone through many, many changes deep in earth under high pressure, high temperature…
New Year’s Resolution: Blogging
Posted by Kevin Bonham on April 17, 2012 My birthday was last week, which means I get a whole new chance to set some New Year’s resolutions. My regular readers (all 3 of you) might have noticed a serious dearth of posting lately. I have many excuses: 1) I’m (hopefully) coming up on my last year as a PhD student, and I’m in…
I’m Too Sexy for Your… Virus? Or, Immunity as it Relates to Peacocks
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 28, 2012 I know something’s amiss when my google news alert returns headlines like these: Why women who lust after Brad Pitt may just fancy his immune system It’s His Immune System That You Actually Want to Sleep With The key to male sexiness: A powerful immune system? and my personal favorite Antibodies, Not Hard Bodies: The…
Open Laboratory 2013
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 27, 2012 If you’ve been reading science blogs for a while, you probably know about Open Laboratory. It’s a yearly anthology of the best science blog writing on the internet. And the submission form is now open (there’s a handy little badge in the left sidebar too). If you appreciate the stuff that I do here, please…
A Vaccine for Drug Addiction
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 24, 2012 Cool: During the tests, mice were given access to deposits of heroin over an extended period of time. Those given the vaccine showed a huge drop in heroin consumption, giving the institute hope that it could also work on people[...] Using the immune system’s ability to make an immune response against any molecule is awesome,…
The Future of Science Publishing
Posted by Kevin Bonham on February 21, 2012 A little over 300 years ago, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a dry goods seller from Delft in Holland, learned to grind glass into lenses and fashion the best microscopes the world had ever seen. In those days, the idea of being a “scientist” as a profession was ludicrous. Natural philosophy was pastime for nobility or at…
