December 18, 2009
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
- Baltasar Gracian
December 18, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Walter Jessen is a cancer biologist and bioinformatician. He is the…
December 18, 2009
Two years ago, at the 2008 Science Blogging Conference, Dave Munger introduced to the world a new concept and a new wesbite to support that concept - ResearchBlogging.org. What is that all about?
Well, as the media is cuttting science out of the newsroom and the science reporting is falling onto…
December 18, 2009
The December 2009 edition of the Journal of Science Communication is now online with some intriguing articles - all Open Access so you can download all the PDFs and read:
Control societies and the crisis of science journalism:
In a brief text written in 1990, Gilles Deleuze took his friend Michel…
December 18, 2009
As many of you, my readers, are interested in Open Access publishing and have given it quite some thought over time, I think you are the right kind of people to contribute to this in a thoughtful and persuasive manner. Please do it.
From everyONE blog:
The White House Office of Science and…
December 18, 2009
How Ebola Impacts Genetics of Western Lowland Gorilla Populations:
Emerging infectious diseases in wildlife are major threats for both human health and biodiversity conservation. Infectious diseases can have serious consequences for the genetic diversity of populations, which could enhance the…
December 17, 2009
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
- Beryl Markham
December 17, 2009
Although I've known Craig McClain for a few years now, both online and offline, I only had some vague ideas about what kind of research he is doing. I knew it has something to do with the Deep Sea and with the evolution of body size, but I did not know the details. So, when the opportunity arose to…
December 17, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Cynthia Allen is the Editor and Writer in the Office of Science…
December 17, 2009
There are 16 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…
December 17, 2009
A nice, thought-provoking interview. Starts with the discussion of Clay Shirky's post Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable and the reactions collected by Jay Rosen and discussed in Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News:
Since the clips are set on auto-start, I placed them all under the…
December 16, 2009
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
- Bertrand Russell
December 16, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Rick MacPherson is the Director of Conservation Programs at Coral…
December 16, 2009
I know there is a nice subset of my readers who can read Serbian language. If you are one of those, you may be interested in the last issue of 'Pancevacko Citaliste'. Along with several interesting articles about science publishing and librarianship, there is also an interview with me by Ana…
December 16, 2009
The winners of the NESCent blogging competition were announced yesterday.
What do the winners get? A travel grant to come to ScienceOnline2010 in January! Yes, we kept those two spots open for the winners.
And the winners are Christie Lynn Wilcox (for the post When Good Genes Go Bad) and Jeremy…
December 16, 2009
There are 25 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…
December 15, 2009
It is the time we have now, and all our wasted time sinks into the sea and is swallowed up without a trace. The past is dust and ashes, and this incommensurably wide way leads to the pragmatic and kinetic future.
- John Ashbery
December 15, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Jean-Claude Bradley is a professor of Chemistry at Drexel University…
December 15, 2009
Applied Climate-Change Analysis: The Climate Wizard Tool:
Although the message of "global climate change" is catalyzing international action, it is local and regional changes that directly affect people and ecosystems and are of immediate concern to scientists, managers, and policy makers. A major…
December 14, 2009
Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation.
- Bertrand Russell
December 14, 2009
Please join us on NC State's Centennial Campus on Wednesday, Dec. 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. for two special speakers.
Our "seasonal" speaker is Dr. Larry Silverberg (aka Dr. Silverbell), NC State professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and world-renowned expert on the "Science of Santa." Dr.…
December 14, 2009
Next Sigma Xi pizza lunch science talk:
Pizza lunch returns at noon, Tuesday, Dec. 15 with a talk by marine biologist Craig R. McClain, assistant director of science for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham. McClain conducts deep-sea research and has participated in expeditions to…
December 14, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Scott Baker is the Fisheries Specialist at North Carolina Sea Grant.…
December 14, 2009
There are 54 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…
December 13, 2009
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the…
December 12, 2009
Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
- Bert Murray
December 12, 2009
Last year, at ScienceOnline09, it appears that the overarching theme of the meeting emerged, and it was Power, in various meanings of the word.
This year, looking at the titles and descriptions of the sessions on the Program, the keyword of the meeting will be Trust. Again, in various meanings of…
