October 22, 2009
The 122nd Skeptics' Circle is up on The Young Australian Skeptics.
October 22, 2009
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'Connecticut Republicans…
October 22, 2009
It's barely been a day since PLoS ONE published the article Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila when a video appeared on YouTube mashing up images and text from the press release:
Of course, as this is Open Access, nobody needs to worry about…
October 22, 2009
Open Access Week is in full swing and there is a lot of blogging about its various events in many countries.
OA week was marked in Serbia this year as well. As you may remember, I went to Belgrade twice in the past two years - in 2008 and 2009 and gave a total of four lectures, one brief TV…
October 22, 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…
October 21, 2009
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
October 21, 2009
You heard of HP, didn't you? It's a person (or company, perhaps Hewlett Packard for all I know) who donated to every single challenge on Social Media Challenge Giving Pages on DonorsChoose!
And now I hear that HP wants to give even more - but there is a method to that madness: you have to donate…
October 21, 2009
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Yale students call for OA…
October 21, 2009
Go say Hello to David Sloan Wilson on Evolution for Everyone.
You can check his past blogging over on Huffington Post.
October 21, 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…
October 20, 2009
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
- Alan Alexander Milne
October 20, 2009
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Seasonal blues - as a SAD…
October 20, 2009
Five Years of Access and Activism:
In April 2009, we marked the five year anniversary of PLoS Medicine's first call for papers with an editorial titled "A Medical Journal for the World's Health Priorities" [1]. The editorial was a renewed and revitalized call for papers, announcing a "refocusing of…
October 20, 2009
There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today.
But first, you need to look at the new Collection of articles - Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC - in which you can see the protein structures in 3D, turn them around, zoom in and out, and do other…
October 20, 2009
Scientia Pro Publica #14 is up on Genetic Inference
A joint edition of Encephalon and Grand Rounds is up on SharpBrains
October 19, 2009
True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
- Alicia Barnhart
October 19, 2009
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Open Access Week: a…
October 19, 2009
This week - 19th-23rd October 2009 - is the Open Access week around the world - fitting nicely with the 5th birthday of PLoS Medicine. And when I say 'around the world' I really mean it. Just check out all the global events happening this week.
The OA Week is co-organized by Open Access Directory…
October 18, 2009
It takes a very long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
- Alice Koller
October 18, 2009
Go say Hello to Pamela Ronald on Tomorrow's Table.
You can check her past blogging here and here.
October 18, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 420 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are 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…
October 18, 2009
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Drug Companies &…
October 17, 2009
If it's painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue.
- Alice Duer Miller
October 17, 2009
Open Access 101, from SPARC from Karen Rustad on Vimeo.
October 17, 2009
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I tweeted a lot today. I…
October 17, 2009
Giant's Shoulders #16 is up on Quiche Moraine
October 16, 2009
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
- Alfred North Whitehead
October 16, 2009
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FIND's Filmmaker Forum…
October 16, 2009
Diversity in Science Carnival #3: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, is up on Drugmonkey
Friday Ark #265 is up on Modulator
October 15, 2009
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
- Alfred Wiggam
