March 10, 2009
Five tips for citizen journalism from ProPublica's new "crowdsorcerer":
On Thursday, the non-profit investigative journalism outfit ProPublica named Amanda Michel its first "editor of distributed reporting." Her title alone suggests the future of news gathering, and so does her background: Michel…
March 10, 2009
Joe Scarborough Is An Idiot and this explains why, but most importantly defines the best what Jon Stewart and The Daily Show are really all about:
First and foremost, the show is a critique of the media. It is not "fake news." It is not "funny riffs on the headlines," a la "Weekend Update." It is a…
March 10, 2009
Written by Allen Dodson in ASBMB Today: Communicating Science in an Online World. The PDF does not allow me to copy and paste a quote, so just click and read for yourself.
March 10, 2009
NY Times and 'Serious' Journalism:
Also in the Sunday edition, however, was the paper's long-demanded interview with Obama, which the Times somewhat arrogantly considers its birthright with every new president. The reporters used the opportunity to learn a few things about Obama's work and goals.…
March 10, 2009
Richard Poynder asks an important question: Open and Shut?: Open Access: Who would you back?:
But as the OA movement has developed an interesting question has arisen: should Green and Gold OA be viewed as concurrent or consecutive activities?
This is not an issue of intellectual curiosity alone: it…
March 10, 2009
Gunnar Engblom has another hit: Twitter for birders - Part 1. An introduction - which starts introductory enough, but I am intrigued by the last sentence:
In part 2 of "Twitter for birders" I will tell you how something called hashtags will revolutionize birding and make all bird alert services…
March 10, 2009
Web usage data outline map of knowledge:
When users click from one page to another while looking through online scientific journals, they generate a chain of connections between things they think belong together. Now a billion such 'clickstream events' have been analysed by researchers to map these…
March 10, 2009
In the Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship: The Business of Academic Publishing: A Strategic Analysis of the Academic Journal Publishing Industry and its Impact on the Future of Scholarly Publishing:
...This statement by Deutsche Bank is an astonishing comment on the…
March 10, 2009
This month's Science Cafe (description below) will be held on March 24th at Tir Na Nog. Our speaker is Dr. David Reif from the US Environmental Protection Agency. That evening we will be talking about the interplay between our genetic makeup and our environment & lifestyles. We will also…
March 10, 2009
Still recovering. Flights were smooth. I finally finished Jennifer Rohn's book on the airplane. I hated my Chapel Hill neighbors, lounging at the pool in 78F, as I was leaving for the cold, snowy Boston. But now I'm back.
The first night, a bunch of us went to the Science Cafe and discussed the…
March 10, 2009
Karen Ventii, a former SciBling and now a science writer, wonders:
As a medical writer, I've noticed that most medical writers I meet are female. A quick Google search using the keywordsâ "freelance medical writerâ" produced seven female and three male writers (approx. 2:1 ratio) from the first 10…
March 10, 2009
The next edition of this fantastic carnival will be hosted by Zuska:
The first Diversity in Science carnival, created and hosted by DNLee of Urban Science Adventures as a Black History Month Celebration, was a great success. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
Now it's time for our second round,…
March 10, 2009
I know, I know, I've been traveling so I've been remiss at highlighting the best new articles over the past few days. In the meantime, we published 25 new articles on Friday night, 29 new articles last night, and 30 new articles tonight in PLoS ONE. So, there is a whole lot of them to check out,…
March 10, 2009
Could not resist....
Network Features of the Mammalian Circadian Clock:
The circadian clock is the biological clock found throughout the body that coordinates the timing of molecular and cellular processes on a 24-hour rhythm. It is composed of numerous transcription factors that feed back and…
March 9, 2009
I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult.
- Elwyn Brooks White
March 8, 2009
Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
- T. S. Eliot
March 8, 2009
Daytime Sleepiness Provides Red Flag For Cardiovascular Disease:
Clinicians should be alert to patients reporting "excessive" day time sleepiness (EDS), says the European Society of Cardiology, after a French study found healthy elderly people who regularly report feeling sleepy during the day have…
March 7, 2009
The individual woman is required ... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self- respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good…
March 7, 2009
You may remember when I wrote this recently (check out the useful links within):
The Conyers bill (a.k.a. Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, HR 801), is back. Despite all the debunking it got last time around, and despite the country having more important problems to deal with right now, this…
March 7, 2009
The Lulu.com page has already been viewed 1160 times, 30 blogs linked to it so far (see the bottom of the announcement post for the list), a very nice number of books (not tellin', sorry) has already been sold, and review copies are on their way to American Scientist, The New Scientist and Seed (I…
March 7, 2009
Yup, it's tonight.
If you were around here a few months ago, the day after the Fall Back day, you probably read this post.
Disregarding the debate over rhetoric of science, that is probably my best, most detailed explanation for what happens to our bodies on those too strange days of the year -…
March 7, 2009
And now I have to travel from this:
to this:
I'll go to the airport in a t-shirt, get dressed on the airplane, and disembark in full Arctic gear! Then reverse the process on the way back.
March 7, 2009
Carnival of the Arid #2, the blog carnival about deserts, is up on Coyote Crossing.
Related to lack of water is, well, lack of water and how it affects people, leads to wars over water, etc. So for the World Water Day on March 22, the blogosphere will write about transboundary water. Send your…
March 7, 2009
more music charts
March 7, 2009
From SCONC:
Tuesday, March 24
6:30-8:30 pm
Science Cafe, Raleigh: Gene-Environment Interactions
EPA statistician and geneticist David Reif discusses the interplay between our genes and the environment. What does our shared evolutionary history have to do with common, complex diseases? How might…
March 7, 2009
The latest Change of Shift is up on The Nurse Practitioner's Place
The Teaching Carnival is back after a long hiatus. The Teaching Carnival 3.2 is up on Planned Obsolescence
And start writing and submitting your posts for the next Praxis, on March 15th 2009, at The Lay Scientist, and for The Giant'…
March 7, 2009
How Moths Key Into Scent Of A Flower:
Moths need just the essence of a flower's scent to identify it, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. Although a flower's odor can be composed of hundreds of chemicals, a moth uses just a handful to recognize the flower.
Naked Mole…
March 6, 2009
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
- Miguel de Cervantes
March 6, 2009
Liz Allen writes today:
One snowy weekend in January 2008, I was lucky enough to attend the Science Blogging Conference (co-organized by Bora Zivkovic our Online Discussion Expert) in NC where I networked with the great and the good of the scientific communication world. PLoS distributed free T-…
March 6, 2009
Those of you who have been following the science blogosphere for a while may remember that excellent old blog Down to Earth which, sadly, went dormant back in 2006.
I am happy to announce that Daniel Collins has now started a new blog, focused on water, hydrology and other All Things Wet, at Cr!key…
