March 11, 2008
There are 48 new articles published in PLoS ONE this week. Rate, comment, send trackbacks....
The Phylogeny of the Four Pan-American MtDNA Haplogroups: Implications for Evolutionary and Disease Studies:
Only a limited number of complete mitochondrial genome sequences belonging to Native American…
March 11, 2008
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:
Title: Manager of Web and Publications
Reports to: Director of Operations
Project Exploration Background: Cofounded in 1999 by paleontologist Paul Sereno and educator Gabrielle Lyon, Project Exploration is a nonprofit science education organization that works to make science…
March 11, 2008
Micronesian Islands Colonized By Small-bodied Humans:
Since the reporting of the so-called "hobbit" fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia, debate has raged as to whether these remains are of modern humans (Homo sapiens), reduced, for some reason, in stature, or whether they represent a new…
March 11, 2008
Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 25 is up on Canadian Medicine
Carnival of the Green #118 is up on The Expatriate's Kitchen
The 115th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on At Home With Kris
March 10, 2008
Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in…
March 10, 2008
Lots of interesting stuff in PLoS Medicine and PLoS Biology this week, as well as a special, one-day-in-advance paper in PLoS ONE:
Small-Bodied Humans from Palau, Micronesia:
Newly discovered fossil assemblages of small bodied Homo sapiens from Palau, Micronesia possess characters thought to be…
March 10, 2008
Why are Republicans (and their voters) so insecure about their masculinity? What are they covering up with their aggression and machismo? Why everything they say and do in an election boils down to some mythical and barbaric notion of manliness:
War cheerleaders ask: 'Is Obama man enough to be…
March 10, 2008
I had great fun meeting Rick MacPherson last summer in San Francisco, so I was very happy that he could come to the second Science Blogging Conference in January where he co-moderated a panel on Real-time blogging in the marine sciences. Do not miss out on reading his blog Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea…
March 10, 2008
You bet there will be! But it will have a different name. Anton and I met yesterday afternoon (and the whole committee will meet in a couple of weeks), looked at all the feedback we got from the last meeting and started planning for the next one.
So, the third conference will be called…
March 9, 2008
What can be done at any time is never done at all.
- English Proverb
March 9, 2008
SCONC Second Wednesday AND the BlogTogether bloggers meetup will occur jointly this month, at Tyler's Taproom, Durham!
Does science make you thirsty?
Jargon got you down?
Want to kick back with other SCONCs?
We're here for you. Come hang with other science communicators on Wednesday, March 12 and…
March 9, 2008
Congratulations to Rev. BigDumbChimp for posting the 8000th comment on this blog!
March 9, 2008
There are other versions of this on YouTube as well...some funnier than others....
March 9, 2008
Glenn Greenwald: Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press (the 424 comments are also worth at least skimming through).
Jay Rosen: An Attractively Against-the-Grain Enterprise...
Rachel Sklar: WaPo Writer Proves Own Thesis With Inane Op-Ed (follow ALL the links in the…
March 9, 2008
A Democrat and a physicist won a special election in the Dennis Hastert's uber-Republican district (also birthplace of Ronald Reagan) yesterday. He is an overall Good Guy.
March 9, 2008
On the Wired Science blog - The Internet Is Changing the Scientific Method:
If all other fields can go 2.0, incorporating collaboration and social networking, it's about time that science does too. In the bellwether journal Science this week, a computer scientist argues that many modern problems…
March 9, 2008
The Boneyard XV is up on Laelaps
International Carnival of Pozitivities 2.9 is up on Creampuff Revolution
March 9, 2008
I bought a book yesterday. You should buy yourself a copy, too. The best writer in the blogosphere, on the most famous dog in the blogosphere. You'll be touched.
March 9, 2008
Charles Leadbetter: People power transforms the web in next online revolution
Anna Kushnir: Science Participation and Going Incognito
Wobbler: Digital Scholarly Communication & Bottlenecks
Jonathan A. Eisen: Open Evolution
Peter Suber: Aiming for obscurity (the links within are important)
Stian…
March 8, 2008
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
March 8, 2008
Today is PZ Myers' 51st birthday.
We've done it last year and the year before. As I did last time, I will collect a linkfest of all the posts - especially those that use the LOLCats generator (Greg has collected some pictures if you want to use them).
First out of the starting gate:
Greg Laden:…
March 8, 2008
Information Liberation By DANIEL AKST:
If your child has a life-threatening disease and you're desperate to read the latest research, you'll be dismayed to learn that you can't -- at least not without hugely expensive subscriptions to a bevy of specialized journals or access to a major research…
March 8, 2008
[rant]So, if you organize a study-group online instead of in meat-space, the old fogies who still remember dinosaurs go all berserk. A student is threatened by expulsion for organizing a Facebook group for studying chemistry. Moreover, as each student got different questions, nobody did the work…
March 8, 2008
In academia? See what they say:
Mad Hatter
EcoGeoFemme
ScienceGirl
Jennie
Mad Hatter again
DrugMonkey
Laurie Granieri
ScienceWoman
Telecommuting has its perks. But working only 40 hours is not one of them. Especially in my case in which the line between work, blogging, schmoozing and fun is…
March 8, 2008
Carrboro's Creative Coworking in the works:
Freelance web designer Brian Russell's vision to create a shared workplace for freelancers and other creative types is moving toward a concrete Carrboro reality.
The idea to open what he called a shared office space with a coffee shop atmosphere was first…
March 8, 2008
The Repubs are stoking fear and violence as that is the only thing left for them on which to campaign. Thus, we need to keep the Dems in the news and campaigning (and thus media forgetting McCain) and the people excited about them and constantly hearing liberal frames for at least a couple of more…
March 8, 2008
DrugMonkey, Nick, Afarensis, Chad and John explain it better, but in short, each SciBling needs to pick two regular readers who will, over a longish period of time in the future, tag (in delicious, with a special tag) three site-wide scienceblogs.com posts of their interest. These posts will be…
March 8, 2008
Sretan Osmi Mart!
March 8, 2008
I did this again this morning.
