December 12, 2009
There will be, at ScienceOnline2010, at least two sessions dedicated to books and book publishing - From Blog to Book: Using Blogs and Social Networks to Develop Your Professional Writing and Writing for more than glory: Proposals and Pitches that Pay - as well as several others that will at least…
December 12, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 4:30 - 5:35pm:
A. Online Reference Managers - John Dupuis and Christina Pikas moderating, with Kevin Emamy, Jason Hoyt, Trevor Owens and Michael Habib (Scopus) in the 'hot seats…
December 11, 2009
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
- Bernard Baruch
December 11, 2009
Carnival of Evolution #18 is up on Biochemicalsoul
Change of Shift, Volume Four, No. 11 is up at Emergiblog
Friday Ark #273 is up on Modulator
December 11, 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.
Kevin Emamy develops and runs CiteULike. You can read my interview…
December 10, 2009
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
- Benjamin McLane Spock
December 10, 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.
Felice Frankel is a famous science photographer. She works at Harvard…
December 9, 2009
It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
- Benjamin Franklin
December 9, 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.
Peter Binfield is the Managing Editor of PLoS ONE and the Publisher…
December 9, 2009
There are 19 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 8, 2009
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli
December 8, 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.
John Hogenesch is an Associate Professor at the University of…
December 8, 2009
Carnival of the Blue #31 is up on Observations of a Nerd.
December 8, 2009
The Severity of Pandemic H1N1 Influenza in the United States, from April to July 2009: A Bayesian Analysis:
Accurate measures of the severity of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza (pH1N1) are needed to assess the likely impact of an anticipated resurgence in the autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.…
December 8, 2009
If you are in New York, you should see this:
Mysteries of the Congo: Exploring the World's Deepest River
FEATURING Ichthyologist Melanie Stiassny
WHAT SciCafe presents Mysteries of the Congo: Exploring the World's Deepest River, featuring Museum Ichthyologist Melanie Stiassny.
What…
December 7, 2009
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
- Bat Masterson
December 7, 2009
Go say Hello to Sharon Astyk at Casaubon's Book (see her old blog here)
December 7, 2009
Scientia Pro Publica 17: The EPIC Edition is up at Mauka to Makai
Encephalon #79: the year-end edition! is up on The Mouse Trap
December 7, 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.
Miriam Goldstein is a Ph.D. graduate student in biological…
December 7, 2009
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…
December 6, 2009
I went on a diet - had to go on two diets at the same time 'cause one diet wasn't giving me enough food.
- Barry Marter
December 5, 2009
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give.
- Barbara Bush
December 5, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 3:15 - 4:20pm:
A. Government 2.0 - Anil Dash
Description: Introducing new tools for scientists to give feedback to the Obama Administration and asking for feedback on making it…
December 4, 2009
We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.
- Barbara Hershey
December 4, 2009
If you follow @ScienceBlogs on Twitter, you may have seen a cryptic tweet yesterday, just saying:
ScienceBlogs will soon be making a very exciting announcement - so stay tuned!
SciBlings (who by then knew what the news was going to be, but were asked to keep it under the wraps until the official…
December 4, 2009
Four Stone Hearth #81 is up on SpiderMonkeyTales
December 4, 2009
It was 25 years ago yesterday that thousands dies in the Bhopal disaster.
Yesterday, Rhitu Chatterjee did the story about it (listen or read the transcript) on PRI The World.
Also yesterday, Rhittu and Elsa Youngsteadt interviewed Henrik Selin of Boston University about the topic (download the MP3…
