March 1, 2010
On Friday, I was on Skeptically Speaking radio show together with Reed Esau (who organized the Skepticamp) talking about ScienceOnline2010, what it takes to organize it, the Unconference format and why it is good, etc.
You can now listen to the recording of the show here.
March 1, 2010
Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging
Saturday, January 16 at 2 - 3:05pm
D. Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging - Tamara Krinsky and Jennifer Ouellette
Description: Over the past several years, the Internet has tangibly changed the way that movies and TV shows are produced and…
March 1, 2010
I posted 126 times in February.
The Biggest Event of the month, of course, was the release of The Open Laboratory 2009, the fourth annual anthology of best writing on science blogs. And the first book review came out shortly after.
The Second Biggest Event of the month? It involves Science! I…
March 1, 2010
There are 22 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…
February 28, 2010
He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
- John Bright
February 28, 2010
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February 28, 2010
Circus of the Spineless #48: Cabinet of Curiosity is up on Matthew Sarver: The Modern Naturalist
Diversity in Science Carnival #7: Black History Month - Broadening STEM Participation at every level - is up on Urban Science Adventures! ©
Carnival of the Green #215! is up on Project Earth
The 131st…
February 28, 2010
The fourth anthology barely managed to hit the virtual shelves when the very first book review was published. Of course, considering the speed, this was done by a blogger - Grant Jacobs from the 'Code for Life' blog on New Zealand sciblogs. Read his review here.
You liked what you just read? Buy…
February 28, 2010
Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging
Saturday, January 16 at 2 - 3:05pm
D. Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging - Tamara Krinsky and Jennifer Ouellette
Description: Over the past several years, the Internet has tangibly changed the way that movies and TV shows are produced and…
February 27, 2010
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing warm and racy; its afterflavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as it I had been poisoned.
- Charlotte Bronte
February 27, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, there was a flurry of tweets, tagged with #sci140 hashtag on Twitter. What was that about? People were trying to summarize scientific papers in 140 characters or less. Actually, they had to use less as the hashtag itself took some space.
Almost 200 tweets were made, and they…
February 27, 2010
Four Sciblings (and three ex-Sciblings - Sheril Kirshenbaum, Chris Mooney and Carl Zimmer - but once a Scibling always a Scibling rule applies, so we hung together some...) went to the AAAS meeting last week in San Diego. There is a lot of coverage in the MSM (and a little bit on blogs - it's hard…
February 26, 2010
"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
- Comedian Kip Adota
February 26, 2010
Chris Brodie is teaching the 'Explaining Science to the Public' class at NC State University. His students come from English, science and engineering departments and he is teaching them how to write well and how to utilize all of the modern technologies for science communication.
The students are…
February 26, 2010
Listen to the podcast, post comments, ask questions - the new forum is now live and will go on for the next week:
How the Hidden Brain Controls Our Lives
We like to think of ourselves as conscious, rational beings.
But human behavior is largely driven by unconscious attitudes.
These attitudes…
February 26, 2010
How does a journalist figure out 'which scientists to trust'?
Saturday, January 16 at 3:15 - 4:20pm
D. How does a journalist figure out "which scientists to trust"? - Christine Ottery and Connie St Louis
Description: We will talk about how science journalists can know which scientists to trust…
February 26, 2010
Friday is the day when four of our journals publish new articles. Let's take a look at those I find most interesting (and 'bloggable'). 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…
February 25, 2010
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth
February 25, 2010
A stellar line-up of judges has finished their work and announced the finalists of the 2010 Research Blogging Awards. This was a huge job - just look at the entire list of nominees!!! What a fantastic list of the best of the best of science blogs and their best posts, in several languages.
You can…
February 25, 2010
Links in this post are those that pertain to me or the session I was in - I will link to some others later (and I already did on Twitter):
Columbia Journalism Review: Online and Overseas: Less hand-wringing over state of science journalism
Physicsworld.com: Researchers! Join the Twitterati! Or…
February 25, 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'…
February 25, 2010
How does a journalist figure out 'which scientists to trust'?
Saturday, January 16 at 3:15 - 4:20pm
D. How does a journalist figure out "which scientists to trust"? - Christine Ottery and Connie St Louis
Description: We will talk about how science journalists can know which scientists to trust…
February 25, 2010
There are 21 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…
February 24, 2010
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in response.
February 24, 2010
If you are interested in the topic of science journalism, how it's changing, what's new, and who's who in it, you are probably already reading Knight Science Journalism Tracker. If not, you should start now.
They have recently been digging around and finding projects with which I am involved in one…
February 24, 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'…
February 24, 2010
How does a journalist figure out 'which scientists to trust'?
Saturday, January 16 at 3:15 - 4:20pm
D. How does a journalist figure out "which scientists to trust"? - Christine Ottery and Connie St Louis
Description: We will talk about how science journalists can know which scientists to trust…
February 24, 2010
There are 31 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…
February 23, 2010
There's time enough, but none to spare.
- Charles W. Chesnutt
February 23, 2010
Yes, the day has finally arrived! The anthology is now up for sale!
Just go ahead right now and click on this link right here, then click on the "Add To Cart" button and one copy (or more!) of this amazing book will be yours!
SciCurious did a fantastic job as this year's editor - and it shows. You'…
