January 25, 2008
Carnival of Space, Week 38 - The Adventures of Shorty Barlow, Private Eye - is up on Sorting Out Science
Friday Ark #175 is up on the Modulator
January 24, 2008
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
- Horace
January 24, 2008
Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash:
The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may modify a theory explaining the extinction of 70 percent of life on Earth 65 million…
January 24, 2008
The day before yesterday, my copy of The Open Laboratory 2007, the second annual science blogging anthology, arrived in the mail.
So yesterday, Reed and I met at a coffee shop and looked it over. It looks great! Reed knows what he's doing and is a perfectionist, so of course the book looks…
January 24, 2008
[Bumped up to make it easier for me to update, and links placed under the fold so not to clutter the front page]
Here's a collection of blog posts written during the Science Blogging Conference (more will be added over the next couple of days as people write their posts after recovering from travel…
January 24, 2008
I and the Bird #67 - Let's all go on a birding holiday - is up on Trevor's Birding blog.
Change of Shift: Volume 2, Number 14 is up on Pixel RN
January 23, 2008
The Duke Medical Center News Office is seeking a Sr. Science News Writer to be responsible for planning, developing, implementing and analyzing strategic comprehensive and diversified media relations programs and tactics. Through direct support of Duke Medicine strategic objectives and the…
January 23, 2008
Abel PharmBoy: Herding cats and framing science
What he says.
January 23, 2008
Do you like ClockQuotes? Do you ever read them? Excitedly wait every night until 4am EST for them to post?
How about YouTube videos of 1970s/80s Yugoslav music? Like them? Dance and sing along?
What about My picks from ScienceDaily? Is that a useful filtering service to you? Is that a place…
January 23, 2008
On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom and the student blogging panel, here is the opportunity for some of us (that means YOU!) to actually do something about science education online:
Elissa Hoffman is a high school teacher and she has started a blog…
January 23, 2008
Pure Pedantry is a great blog. Jake writes some cool neuroscience stuff, and an occasional political post I disagree with (but not enough to start a blogwar). Kara Contreary has recently retired (though we'll see how long that lasts!) so Jake has been all alone and wondering what to do. Of…
January 23, 2008
This movement is really gathering some serious momentum! On top of an already impressive list of supporters, the real 600lb gorilla has joined in the effort - the American Association for the Advancement of Science just put out a press release that is worth reading!
January 23, 2008
Tangled Bank #97 - The Frozen Bank - is up on The Inoculated Mind
Accretionary Wedge #5 - Geological Misconceptions and Pie - is up on Green Gabbro
Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 18 - The All Too Common Cold - is up on ButYouDontLookSick
Carnival of the Green # 111 is up on TREEconomist
The Carnival Of…
January 23, 2008
If you have not done it yet, please fill a brief questionnaire about your experience at the Science Blogging Conference. We will meet in a couple of weeks to analyze how it went and to start brainstorming the ways we can make the next conference even better.
So far, we received 46 responses…
January 23, 2008
Dave and Co. have been working hard over the past few months and now (actually on Saturday at the Conference) Dave announces that ResearchBlogging.org is live and in action! The BPR3 site, where the entire initiative was hashed out and built will continue to serve as the News Blog.
So, register…
January 23, 2008
On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom and the student blogging panel comes the announcement that SPARC has declared the winners of the first SPARKY Awards for student-generated videos on the theme of openess of information. The winner is Habib Yazdi…
January 22, 2008
On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom, this initiative is really exciting:
Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education, Call for Free, Adaptable Learning Materials Online
Cape Town, January 22nd, 2008--A…
January 22, 2008
From Sage Ross, via John Lynch come exciting news about a new Open Access Journal - Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science
Spontaneous Generations is a new online academic journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of…
January 22, 2008
There is a lot of new stuff published this week in PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and PLoS ONE.
Molecular Studies in Treponema pallidum Evolution: Toward Clarity? is an Expert Commentary on last week's (widely reported) study On the Origin of the Treponematoses: A…
January 22, 2008
Brian Russell recorded some sessions at the Conference and is now putting them up on Blip.TV. Here is the first clip, the very beginning of the Conference on Saturday:
January 22, 2008
The Science Communication Consortium presents:
DISCUSSION ON THE ROLES OF EMERGING MEDIA OUTLETS IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE
Thursday, JAN 31st, 7-8:30pm
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, East Building Seminar Room (1425 Madison Ave at 98th St, NYC)
A discussion of how science is communicated…
January 22, 2008
Last week, we made a little upgrade to the PLoS Blog.
If you look at any individual post you will see that we added the "e-mail this page" and "Printer-friendly version" buttons on the bottom of each post.
We have also started allowing trackbacks on our posts. Just like comments, trackbacks will…
January 21, 2008
There is something about being on scienceblogs.com that is different - and bigger - than just being a science blogger on a prominent platform. Something that others are still trying to figure out and emulate. And that is the friendship that we have all developed between us. We are like a big…
January 21, 2008
During the Student blogging panel--from K to Ph D at the Conference (actually, the session I enjoyed the best of all - and that is not easy as all the sessions were fantastic), a point came up about the way universities are slowly changing their attitudes toward students blogging. Actually, one of…
January 21, 2008
Sleeping & Dreaming exhibit hosted by Wellcome Trust will be open until 9 March 2008:
Why are scientists still perplexed by sleep? What do the insights that our dreams bring us mean? And is a life without sleep conceivable? Sleeping and dreaming is a nightly (or daily) occurrence for us all,…
January 21, 2008
UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) Workshop - February 4th 2008:
Few people would argue that good communication is the lifeblood of good science - and the Web is opening up a whole new world of possibilities.
UK PubMed Central is ideally placed to make the best use of new Web technologies and new ideas in…
January 21, 2008
Through blog posts, via e-mail, and via our feedback form (have you filled it yet?) we are already getting tons of feedback on the way Conference ran, what was good about it, what not so much, and what can be done differently next time. We are carefully reading all of it and will certainly address…
January 21, 2008
During the Science Blogging Ethics session at the Conference, there was a discussion of a possible Science-bloggers code of ethics, or at least a community-built set of guidelines for best practices and responsible conduct on science blogs. It was suggested that the best way to make such a set of…
January 21, 2008
Conference was a blast. Did not spend much time at home, though, so it is nice to be back today. Dog was happy to see me:
