June 2, 2008
Jarred aka The Urochordate is a PhD as of today.
June 2, 2008
Festival of the Trees #24 is up on Wrenaissance Reflections
Carnival of the Green #130 is up on Green Ladywell
June 2, 2008
First LOL PLoS images are now on Flickr and Facebook. If you use the correct tag in Flickr, yours will be added to the set. Please link to the original paper when you do this.
June 2, 2008
The 'Other' Neglected Diseases in Global Public Health: Surgical Conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Currently in sub-Saharan Africa, most patients with surgical problems that are routinely treatable in high-income countries never reach a health facility, or are treated at a facility with inadequate…
June 2, 2008
Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics has devoted an entire issue to the question of the use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance. All articles are Open Access. I'd like to see the responses on blogs - let me know if you write/read one, please.
Peter does…
June 2, 2008
Peter Suber goes philosophical:
Open access and the self-correction of knowledge:
Here's an epistemological argument for OA. It's not particularly new or novel. In fact, I trace it back to some arguments by John Stuart Mill in 1859. Nor is it very subtle or complicated. But it's important in…
June 2, 2008
Another SCONC event:
RENCI to Show the Power of Visual Communications at Lunchtime Bistro:
The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) invites the public to a Renaissance Bistro lunchtime demonstration and lecture from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, June 26 in the Showcase Dome room at the RENCI…
June 2, 2008
Feasibility Of Preventing Malaria Parasite From Becoming Sexually Mature Demonstrated:
Researchers have demonstrated the possibility of preventing the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for more than a million malaria deaths a year, from becoming sexually mature.…
June 1, 2008
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
June 1, 2008
Medicine 2.0 Carnival is up on Discovering Biology in a Digital World
Carnival of Space #56 is up on Lifeboat Foundation
Carnival of the Elitist Bastards #1 is up on En Tequila Es Verdad
June 1, 2008
More and more societies are compiling their 'classical' papers.
Here is another one.
And here I wrote, among else:
"In discussions of Open Access, we always focus on brand new papers and how to make them freely available for readers around the world as well as for people who want to mine and…
June 1, 2008
Yes, there is a new blog around here - The ScienceBlogs Book Club - where the author of a book and invited guest bloggers will discuss the book. You are invited to join the discussion in the comments and we, the rest of the sciencebloggers, may add to the cacophony on our blogs as well.
The first…
June 1, 2008
More from SCONC:
Tuesday June 17 at 6:30-8:30 pm
Science Café - A 'One Medicine' Approach to a Changing World
NC State's Barrett D. Slenning MS, DVM, MPVM will share with us the view that knowing about diagnoses and treatments of animals can benefit humans. The opposite is also true, given the…
June 1, 2008
Living Fossils Have Long- And Short-term Memory Despite Lacking Brain Structures Of Modern Cephalopods:
Robyn Crook from the City University of New York reports that Nautilus, the ancient living ancestors of modern cephalopods, have both long and short-term memory, despite lacking the brain…
May 31, 2008
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Bragg
May 31, 2008
Bouphonia: The Conservatism to Come.
SciCurious: Weird Science: it's Friday!. Since I do not have time and energy for my Friday Weird Sex Blogging series, I am glad that someone picked up on it. This post is about condoms and why they break.
Echidne: He Loved Horses
Two excellent posts and…
May 31, 2008
Classic Science Papers: The 2008 'Challenge', what will hopefully turn into a carnival, is up on Skulls in the Stars and it if full of really cool posts.
Friday Ark #193 is up on the Modulator
May 31, 2008
News from SCONC (Science Communicators of North Carolina):
On Thursday, June 5 at 7 p.m. in the Banquet Hall of the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, NC:
Public Lecture:
The Beautiful Mind: Breakthroughs and Breakdowns of the Brain,
with Dr. Ayse Belger.
May 31, 2008
Have you been to Pandagon lately? Have you seen the brand new look, design and layout? Cool!
Which reminds me that I have read Amanda's book, It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments, on my first 2-3 flights in Europe last month. I left it…
May 31, 2008
Why Are Computational Neuroscience and Systems Biology So Separate?:
Despite similar computational approaches, there is surprisingly little interaction between the computational neuroscience and the systems biology research communities. In this review I reconstruct the history of the two…
May 30, 2008
Every public action which is not customary either is wrong of if is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
- Francis MacDonald Cornford (1874-1943)
May 30, 2008
Sukhdev in Web Land
Hog Foot Holler
Psychedelic Research
Open Access Anthropology
Evolutionary Novelties
May 30, 2008
Today in PLoS Genetics: a nice review of some interest to my readers: When Clocks Go Bad: Neurobehavioural Consequences of Disrupted Circadian Timing by Alun R. Barnard and Patrick M. Nolan:
Progress in unravelling the cellular and molecular basis of mammalian circadian regulation over the past…
May 30, 2008
Kevin Zelnio and Alex Wild note that PLoS ONE published its first Taxonomy paper this week - A Revision of Malagasy Species of Anochetus Mayr and Odontomachus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Brian Fisher and Alex Smith. Kevin explains the paper in detail and explains why this brave move by…
May 30, 2008
In the Journal of Circadian Rhythms:
A new approach to understanding the impact of circadian disruption on human health (pdf):
Background
Light and dark patterns are the major synchronizer of circadian rhythms to the 24-hour solar day. Disruption of circadian rhythms has been associated with a…
May 29, 2008
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Groucho Marx
May 29, 2008
U.S. Reporters Often Do A Poor Job Of Reporting About New Medical Treatments, Analysis Finds:
Most medical news stories about health interventions fail to adequately address costs, harms, benefits, the quality of evidence, and the existence of other treatment options, finds a new analysis in this…
May 29, 2008
I and the Bird # 76 is up on Wanderin' Weeta
The new edition of the Change of Shift is up on Miss-Elaine-ious RN (temp)
May 29, 2008
I was wondering what to do about the Classic Papers Chellenge. The deadline is May 31st, and I am so busy (not to mention visiting my dentist twice week which incapacitates me for the day, pretty much), so I decided to go back to the very beginning because I already wrote about it before and could…
May 29, 2008
Every now and then I have some fun and LOL-cat-ize an image from a PLoS ONE paper. See, for instance, LOLdinosaur, LOLtortoise, LOLtasmaniantiger and LOLpterosaur. Folks at the mothership love these. So, if a number of you are up to this I'll make a Flickr set or Facebook group, or a linkfest.…
