April 5, 2010
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
April 5, 2010
Editing the 2006 anthology of the best writing on science blogs was a fast, whirlwind affair - with a little help from my friends, I put it together (yes, from idea to having the book up for sale) in less than a month. As it was quite a success and I expected the number of entries to double (I was…
April 5, 2010
Thanks, this year again, to Zen Faulkes for putting together the submission buttons that you can embed wherever you want on your sites and thus have easy way to submit an entry for Open Laboratory 2010 whenever you read a cool science post.
You should read the long-winded instructions about what…
April 5, 2010
Remember two years ago when I went to FEST in Trieste, Italy? (see pictures and coverage, e.g., this,this, this, this and more). Now nixed by Berlusconi who has other priorities than science, the FEST was one of the most exciting and famous science and technology events in the world. Sad that FEST…
April 5, 2010
Writing for more than glory: Proposals and Pitches that Pay - Rebecca Skloot with guests
Saturday, January 16 - 4:40 - 5:45pm
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…
April 5, 2010
Long-time observers of the progressive blogopshere are likely aware of Barbara O' Brien and her blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere. She was a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC.…
April 4, 2010
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
April 4, 2010
In his ongoing series, Colin Schultz posted two excellent interviews, with Ferris Jabr and with Ed Yong. Both interviews are long-ish, and cover a lot of ground, e.g., about the importance of the "news hook" for science stories, the role of PIOs and press release sites, and the useless blogging vs…
April 4, 2010
There are 23 new articles in PLoS ONE published last Friday (sorry, I'm late....). As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea…
April 4, 2010
This blog was reviewed by Dr Justin Marley at The Amazing World of Psychiatry: A Psychiatry Blog. Check it out.
April 4, 2010
Writing for more than glory: Proposals and Pitches that Pay - Rebecca Skloot with guests
Saturday, January 16 - 4:40 - 5:45pm
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…
April 3, 2010
Alas! There is no casting anchor in the stream of time!
- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
April 3, 2010
For those of you not subscribed to the PLoS Blog or everyONE blog, here are some of the latest news:
Introducing the PLoS Medicine iPhone application
A new search server is powering the PLoS journal websites
Author Spotlight: Interview with Joseph Sertich and Mark Loewen
PLoS ONE reviewed by…
April 3, 2010
Writing for more than glory: Proposals and Pitches that Pay - Rebecca Skloot with guests
Saturday, January 16 - 4:40 - 5:45pm
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…
April 3, 2010
Carnival of Evolution #22 is up on Beetles In The Bush.
Festival of the Trees #46 is up on Vanessa's Trees and Shrubs Blog.
April 2, 2010
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
April 2, 2010
I and the Bird #122 is up on Chuqui 3.0
Change of Shift - April Fools Edition - A Great Collection of Nursing Stories - is up on The Millionaire Nurse Blog
The Actual Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival is up on Greg Laden's blog
Friday Ark #289 is up on Modulator
April 1, 2010
Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
- Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist (1857-1913)
April 1, 2010
There are 63 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
April 1, 2010
I posted 133 times in March.
I was quite focused on science communication and journalism this month and blogged quite a lot about these topics. See, for example, Why it is important for media articles to link to scientific papers, or New science journalism ecosystem: new inter-species interactions…
April 1, 2010
.....was just announced on the everyONE blog so go ahead and click right here and go see who won this month's prize.
April 1, 2010
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
March 31, 2010
"When I want to read a good novel, I write one"
-- Benjamin Disraeli
March 31, 2010
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
March 31, 2010
Berry Go Round #26 is up on Gravity's Rainbow
Grand Rounds - the Health Care Reform Edition - are up at See First
Friday Ark #288 is up on Modulator
March 30, 2010
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
March 30, 2010
There are 9 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
March 30, 2010
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
March 29, 2010
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette
March 29, 2010
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
