December 6, 2011
I'm doing a short presentation tomorrow on blogging for researchers as part of a day-long communications workshop for faculty here at York. And since a few months back I created a reading list for a social media presentation for grad students, I thought I'd expand that list in this post and add…
December 5, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the…
December 5, 2011
First the good news.
Saturday's Toronto Star had a really nice little piece on the trend among some Toronto-area science grad students to get a sign of their scientific passion tattooed onto their bodies.
T.D. MacDonald fact-checked the design five times before he let one drop of ink penetrate his…
December 3, 2011
On Changing Reading Habits or Savoring the Experience
Who decides what a library should be? Those who use it or those who pay for it?
The rise of the new information gatekeepers
Exploding The "Influentials" Myth
"Ambitious, Unfunded, and Possible"
Grad Students and Digital Education
How to Get…
December 2, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the…
December 2, 2011
Sure, John Scalzi doesn't need any link love from me.
On the other hand, sometimes he just hits one right out of the park.
Apparently the other day he stumbled upon a Lord of the Rings trilogy showing on TV. And he had a web-enabled machine of some sort handy. And he had Twitter open.
Hilarity…
December 1, 2011
Another couple of lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year…
November 30, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the…
November 29, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the…
November 28, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the…
November 28, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the…
November 26, 2011
The scandal of publisher-forbidden textmining: The vision denied
Textmining: NaCTeM and Elsevier team up; I am worried
The Trouble With Bright Kids
Yeah, but who pays?
If I were Dean of Graduate Studies: Rethinking the PhD
Our audience awaits
Is librarianship in crisis and should we be talking…
November 25, 2011
Kids today! They just can't suffer deprivation like we could back in my day!
Take a look: 'Youngest' expedition to South Pole abandoned after 3rd day without Twitter.
Plucky 20 year-old Belinda Baron had to abandon her attempt to be recognised as the youngest person to reach the South Pole on skis…
November 24, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
For my…
November 23, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the…
November 22, 2011
Another list for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
For my…
November 21, 2011
This past Friday there was a one-day symposium on the state of academic librarianship at the University of Toronto entitled Academic Librarianship - A Crisis or an Opportunity?.
In response to recent developments in academic libraries in Ontario and elsewhere, academic librarians are invited to…
November 21, 2011
I like to think I'm developing a little niche here on Confessions of a Science Librarian, at least as far as some of my book reviews. And I like to think that niche is reviewing science-oriented graphic novels. And I've reviewed a few over the past couple of years. Logicomix (review), Evolution…
November 18, 2011
Yeah, I'm sorta an IT guy, or at least I used to be a real IT guy. I guess now I'm a former fake has-been IT guy.
In any case, this one from Cracked really tickled my cyborg funny bone: 5 True Stories That Prove You Shouldn't Piss Off The IT Guy.
Let's take a quick peek at number 5:
#5. Omar Ramos…
November 18, 2011
It is time. The season of lists begins!
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
From the beginning it's been a pretty popular…
November 16, 2011
It all started with this innocent little tweet from @seelix:
In going through the twitter list, I believe that half the #scio12 people are either a librarian, a marine scientist or named Emily.
To which I responded:
@seelix is there a marine science librarian named Emily? #scio12
@BoraZ had to…
November 12, 2011
Why Engineering Majors Change Their Minds
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It's Just So Darn Hard)
Why The Internet of Things Will Be Open
Access or ownership: Which will be the default?
Designing for the phase change: Local communities and shared infrastructure
There is a pathetic lack of…
November 11, 2011
It's not everyday that The Cronk News has a science-themed article but when they do, I'm all over it!
Today it's Agronomy Lab Calls Flesh-Eating Plants "A Mistake."
"Yes, we admit our mistake," says Blackheart. "Of course this doesn't lessen the university's commitment to sound agricultural policy…
November 10, 2011
Welcome to the latest installment in my very occasional series of interviews with people in the scitech world. This time around the subject is Michael Nielsen, author of the recently published Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science and prolific speaker on the Open Science lecture…
November 9, 2011
I was at The Charleston Conference last week, thanks to Mike Diaz of Proquest who invited me to be on a panel that he moderated, along with Karen Downing and Clifford Lynch. The topic of the panel was Keeping Up with the Things That Matter: Current Awareness Tools and Strategies for Academic…
November 8, 2011
Before heading off to the Charleston Conference last week, I blogged about the big announcement of Pierre Lassonde's big $25 million donation to York to found the Lassonde School of Engineering.
I attended the announcement and livetweeted it quite extensively: here, here, here, here, here, here,…
November 4, 2011
OK, the Friday after Halloween. But at least I'm typing this the day after Halloween!
And what might be some of the things you'll regret the day after Halloween?
Ages 45+: Shot a Kid
And every Halloween, teenagers will come around and shit on your stuff. Sometimes figuratively, but also sometimes…
November 3, 2011
True scientists are irreverent
Bookshops, You Have Three Choices
The three biggest myths about women in tech
On thumb twiddling (how not to run your IR)
Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act'
Tightening…
November 1, 2011
It's a big day here at York University, especially for us science & engineering types both within the Faculty of Science and Engineering and those of us who support their teaching and research missions. There's a big announcement about the coming expansion of our engineering programs to…
October 31, 2011
Another list of books for your reading and collection development pleasure.
Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities by Richard A. DeMillo
When academics get together to talk about the future, they talk mainly to each other, but the American system of higher education has…
