November 3, 2009
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
- Anna Quindlin
November 3, 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.
Sheril Kirshenbaum is a good friend, a marine biologist and a former…
November 3, 2009
November edition of Scientia Pro Publica is up on Observations of a Nerd
Carnival Of Evolution, 17th Edition is up on Adaptive Complexity
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 6 are up on Non-Clinic Jobs
November 3, 2009
New this morning in PLoS ONE, PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers:
Mandatory Disclosure of Pharmaceutical Industry-Funded Events for Health Professionals:
We are in a period of…
November 2, 2009
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
- Anna Freud
November 2, 2009
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I went to this today (8:…
November 2, 2009
...for October can be found here.
November 2, 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.
Trevor Owens is the community lead for the Zotero project at the…
November 2, 2009
Go say Hello to Andrew Gelman at Applied Statistics.
You can check out the archives of his old blog here.
November 2, 2009
Festival of the Trees #41 is up on Blog do Ãrvores Vivas/Living Trees Blog
November 1, 2009
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
- Ann Radcliffe
November 1, 2009
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Doctors' Lack of Respect…
November 1, 2009
Berry Go Round #21 is up on Beetles In The Bush
Carnival of the Liberals #98: The Halloween Fearmongering Edition is up on Greta Christina's blog.
November 1, 2009
October was a very busy month and the blog must have felt a little neglected. Still, I managed to post 142 times last month...and not just Clock Quotes.
Open Access Week was in October, and I particularly paid attention to Open Access Week in Serbia.
I announced the PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month…
October 31, 2009
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
- Ann Morrow Lindbergh
October 31, 2009
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Every plastic bag and…
October 30, 2009
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.
- Ani Difranco
October 30, 2009
Scientia Pro Publica #14 is up on Genetic Inference
Friday Ark #267 is up on Modulator
October 30, 2009
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On science writing and…
October 30, 2009
Aaron Rowe is a PhD student in biochemistry at UCSB and a blogger for Wired Science. I interviewed Aaron last year, right after our second, 2008, meeting.
If you see soychemist on Twitter, that's him! At ScienceOnline2010, Aaron will do an Ignite-style inspirational talk "SARS, Drugs, and…
October 30, 2009
An awesome experiment in Stockholm, Sweden where students changed stairs in a subway station into a piano:
And? More people started using the stairs than the escalator! It's just more fun!
October 29, 2009
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
- Andrew Jackson
October 29, 2009
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Science journalists,…
October 29, 2009
The Halloween edition of Change of Shift is up on Reality Rounds
I and the Bird #112 is up on Walk the Wilderness
October 29, 2009
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Daniel Brown from the…
October 29, 2009
Today I'll mention a few of the people who are traveling from afar.
Fabiana Kubke is a professor of anatomy at University of Auckland (yes, birds brains! I hope we find some time to talk shop while she is here). Yes, that is Aucklans in New Zealand!
Dr.Kubke blogs on Building Blogs of Science…
October 29, 2009
If you follow me on Twitter or peruse the links in my daily Tweetlinks summaries, you may have noticed I posted several links to a new Collection at PLoS. This one is not a PLoS ONE Collection, but a PLoS-wide one, spanning six of the seven journals in the house.
The Collection Genomics of Emerging…
October 29, 2009
The Program is now finalized - the schedule of rooms and times can be found here. What an incredible line-up of moderators/presenters and intriguing topics!
And if you think that making the schedule was easy....it took a couple of hours of moving the index cards around until I got the Best…
October 28, 2009
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie
October 28, 2009
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Science Fiction has no…
