November 22, 2009
Seen on DeLene's Facebook wall....
November 22, 2009
Diversity in Science Carnival #4 - Increasing Diversity among the college ranks - is up on Urban Science Adventures! ©. This carnival is a preparation for the ScienceOnline2010 session Casting a wider net: Promoting gender and ethnic diversity in STEM.
November 21, 2009
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
- Art Buchwald
November 21, 2009
(via Deep Sea News)
November 21, 2009
Listen to Nature EdCast podcast about No Small Matter and Picturing to Learn:
In today's podcast Ilona interviews Felice Frankel, a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard and a Research Scientist at MIT. Felice is a photographer who is keenly interested in visual communication of complex concepts. To…
November 21, 2009
The second annual National Day of Listening - celebrated on Friday, November 27, 2009 - is just around the corner! With your help, we hope to make the National Day of Listening an ongoing holiday tradition, when all Americans set aside time on the day after Thanksgiving to honor a friend, loved…
November 21, 2009
Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST!
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original…
November 21, 2009
The Giant's Shoulders #17 - Darwin Sesquicentennial Edition - is up on The Primate Diaries
November 21, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 11:30am - 12:35pm:
A. Legal Aspects of publishing, sharing and blogging science - Victoria Stodden
Description: Not giving legal advice, but discussion of CC-licences, copyright…
November 20, 2009
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
- Arsenio Hall
November 20, 2009
The 124th Meeting Of The Skeptics' Circle is up on Beyond the Short Coat
Friday Ark #270 is up on Modulator
November 20, 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.
Hope Leman is a Research Information Technologist at Samaritan Health…
November 20, 2009
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts the final offering of its Charles Darwin Lecture Series on Tuesday, November 24 -- the 150th anniversary of Darwin's landmark publication of "The Origin of Species." Join Museum paleontologist and science historian Paul Brinkman for a free…
November 20, 2009
Friday - PLoS Genetics, Pathogens, Computational Biology and ONE published 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,…
November 19, 2009
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee
November 19, 2009
Continuing with the series (I get more and more feedback that people love this) introducing, a few at a time, the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Anil Dash is a pioneer blogger (and of course twitterer) and one of the…
November 19, 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…
November 18, 2009
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
November 18, 2009
NESCent and SCONC:
What: November SCONC-fest
When: Thursday November 19th , 6-8pm
Where: National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham
Please join us to commemorate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of "The Origin of Species."
Learn about the wild world of Ice Age…
November 18, 2009
I have to say I am myself enjoying doing these introductory posts. I get to Google people, see who they are and what they've been up to lately, discover stuff about friends' past careers I did not know, find them (and follow/subscribe/friend) on Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook, and generally get…
November 18, 2009
There are 28 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…
November 17, 2009
It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
- Aristotle
November 17, 2009
Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST!
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original…
November 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.
John McKay is a historian who's been blogging on Archy for, like,…
November 17, 2009
If you ever saw me at a conference, you probably asked me for one of the famous PLoS t-shirts. Or you did not even have to ask - I just gave you one.
Or perhaps you won one of our contests in the past - a synchroblogging anniversary competition, or a Blog Pick Of The Month - in which case you…
November 17, 2009
Article-Level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact:
Formally published papers that have been through a traditional prepublication peer review process remain the most important means of communicating science today. Researchers depend on them to learn about the latest advances in their…
November 17, 2009
Scientia Pro Publica #16 is up on SharpBrains
Encephalon #78 is up on Providentia
Carnival of the Green #203 is up on EcoSalon
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 8 are up on Health Insurance Colorado
November 17, 2009
From the American Museum of Natural History:
SciCafe presents Naughty vs. Nice: The Biological Basis of Greed and Altruism, featuring biologist Lee Dugatkin, University of Louisville, and AMNH Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Rob DeSalle.
Join fellow New Yorkers to discuss what makes us naughty or…
November 16, 2009
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
- Archibald MacLeish
