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(This guest post was written by Chris Rowan) It is always a pleasure to welcome a new Scibling into the fold, but I am particularly pleased to celebrate the addition of a fellow rock-hound to the Collective. Maria Brumm of Green Gabbro has used the move as an opportunity to throw off her cloak of…

(This guest post was written by Abel Pharmboy) Let's say you're a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow in the biomedical sciences. You're questioning your choice of career but know you want to stick with it and just need some objective advice from someone who isn't as invested (or uninterested)…

Page 3.14 interviews are back! Somehow it's taken many moons for veteran SciBling Martin Rundkvist, of Aardvarchaeology, to answer our barrage of questions. The Swedish archaeologist (pictured at right with his daughter) made headlines recently when he discovered, while metal-detecting on the…

What can I and can't I write on my blog? Why hat-tip? Should I censor my commenters? Should the MSM be able to take quotes from my blog out of context? These were the TUFF questions discussed at the first session I attended at yesterday's NC Science Blogging Conference: "Science Blogging Ethics,"…

Well, folks, PZ Myers surfaced again at the NC Science Blogging Conference. I'm sure he'll try to deny that he was drinking heavily in the hotel bar when the conference was over, but Brian, Zuska, Janet, and Dave can attest that he was there. More photographic evidence below the fold. (BTW, Bora…

Alright, here's the money shot of ScienceBloggers (TM!) from the NC Science Blogging Conference (except Shelley, darn! she must have been over by the popsicle table): From left to right... Back row: Brian, Abel, James, Jennifer, Chris, Sheril, Peter, Kevin, and Bora Middle row: Dave, Zuska, Tara…

"You could nuke Sweden off the planet, and Japanese archeology would not suffer." -Martin Rundkvist I'm eating lunch now at the NC Science Blogging Conference after a great discussion, led by Martin, about blogging about the humanities and social sciences. Many topics were covered (including the…

You thought PZ Myers wasn't going to the NC Science Blogging Conference? WRONG. I just spotted our favorite squid freak downing a muffin and a ginger ale! Some onlookers commented that PZ's long, blond locks looked a lot like Shelley Batts, but I don't know... (BTW, standing next to PZ is Tom…

Last night at the NC Science Blogging Conference, right before a lovely dinner of vino, mahi mahi and banana pudding, I asked a few sciblings if they'd show me their tattoos. I got one sucker, above. Guess who? Find out below the fold! It's Evil Monkey! I'm off now to breakfast and then a day-long…

Hello from Day 1 of the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference! I just had a late lunch at the hotel restaurant with Dave, Bora, and some other conference participants. As we were walking into the restaurant, and past a large and colorful buffet table, NC-native Dave says to me, "Yeah,…

Just one day to go before the second annual North Carolina Science Blogging Conference at Research Triangle Park! More than 200 bloggers, scientists, journalists, blogger-scientists and blogger-journalists are registered for a craaaazy line-up of discussions, lab tours, dinners, cocktails, and fun…

On Monday, our German partner Hubert Burda Media soft-launched ScienceBlogs.de, a new ScienceBlogs site in German. In thinking about science blogs written in other languages, we thought now would be a good time for a quick reader poll. Below we've got two questions for you, dear readers, about…

After a brief hiatus, Page 3.14 brings back the ScienceBlogger interviews. Now we hear from those clever, if odd, creatures of Zooillogix, Andrew and Benny Bleiman. (In the photo, Benny's on the left.) What's your name? Andrew and Benny Bleiman What do you do when you're not blogging? Andrew: We…

Most of the ScienceBloggers are pretty angry that the New York Times failed to list any science books on their list of 2007's 100 Notable Books. This might be a good time to mention the critically acclaimed new science books written by sciblings Chris Mooney and Jonah Lehrer. We're delighted (if…

Behind the scenes, a few ScienceBloggers have recently confessed some tenure-risking transgressions in the laboratory. (Just think of all the mischief to be had with dry ice, helium tanks, liquid nitrogen, or an autoclave...) Which makes us wonder: What's the most embarrassing or over-the-top…

For your weekly viewing pleasure, here are this week's large-scale versions of the channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "…

The annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference kicks off today in San Diego. Seed associate editor Emily Anthes, one of SfN's 30,000 attendees, has graciously offered to do live blogging on Page 3.14 this weekend direct from the conference. The Dalai Lama won't be there this year. But she'…

Yesterday was the last day to take part in the DonorsChoose challenge. Now the final tallies are ready, and we are super, super proud: ScienceBlogs readers donated $54,335 for 155 classroom projects. With $15,000 in matching funds from Seed Media group, that means our readers put $69,335 toward U.S…

Happy November! Last night, kids of all ages sported masks, fangs, third eyes and severed limbs. It's perhaps appropriate, then, that this morning we published our latest question to ScienceBloggers: "Which parts of the human body could you design better?" When we asked the bloggers how they'd…

Once again, feast your eyes on the larger versions of this week's channel photos. (Have a photo you'd like to send in? Email it to photos@scienceblogs.com, or assign the tag "sbhomepage" to one of your photos on Flickr. Note: be sure to assign your photo an "attribution only" or "share and share…

I was born in 1984. My earliest memory of a computer is thumbing through a plastic box of black, square 5.25-inch floppy disks, trying to decide whether I wanted to play The Oregon Trail, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, or Word Munchers on the family Compaq 386. Since most of the ScienceBloggers…

Page 3.14 gave the usual tough questions to one of our newbies, ScienceWoman, of On Being a Scientist and a Woman. (She's there in the photo, if you look very, very closely!) What do you do when you're not blogging? Teach freshman. Write grant proposals. Advise grad students. Change diapers.…

For the Salon feature in the June 2006 issue of Seed, we brought together the curator of the American Museum of Natural History, Niles Eldredge, with novelist Andrea Barrett to talk about the role of narrative in science. Next Monday, October 22, Barrett will read from her new novel, The Air We…

Studies have shown that kids whose parents are directly involved in their homework and classroom activities do better in school. But for many parents, it's been a long time since they thought about basic science. One DonorsChoose project, created by a fifth grade teacher in rural North Carolina,…

This time around, we're interviewing new blogger Coby Beck of A Few Things Ill Considered. What's your name? Coby Beck What do you do when you're not blogging? I am a software engineer specializing in artificial intelligence applications, so that is my bread and butter activity. To avoid being a…

9.24.07 to 9.30.07 Announcements Welcome New Sciblings Welcome anonymous ScienceWoman, a first-year assistant professor in "-ology." Her blog's title, On Being a Scientist and a Woman, is sufficiently self-explanatory. And second, welcome A Few Things Ill Considered, the climate blog of Coby Beck…

Our Neanderthal ancestors probably cleaned their teeth, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported recently. Spanish paleontologists recently uncovered two, 63,400-year-old tooth fossils near Madrid. The molars, found in near-perfect condition, once resided in the jaw of an approximately 30-year-old…

So lately everybody's been blogging about the supposed dearth of prominent female science bloggers. In light of this, we at the ScienceBlogs editorial corner are oh-so-pleased to announce our newest scibling, ScienceWoman, a first-year assistant professor in "-ology." Her blog's title, On Being a…

A team of astronomers from Cambridge and Caltech recently used a ground-based camera called "Lucky" to take stellar pictures that are much sharper than those taken by the beloved Hubble telescope—and cost 50,000 times less. The photos above show the famous Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), 3,000 light…

Attention ScienceBloggers and science bloggers! Registration is now open for the second annual Science Blogging Conference, to be held on January 19, 2008 in the Research Triangle Park in Durham, North Carolina. The conference was organized by BlogTogether, a network of North Carolina bloggers, "…