clock | April 5, 2010Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Maria-Jose Vinas to answer a few questions:
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is your (scientific)…
clock | April 5, 2010Editing the 2006 anthology of the best writing on science blogs was a fast, whirlwind affair - with a little help from my friends, I put it together (yes, from idea to having the book up for sale) in less than a month. As it was quite a success and I expected the number of entries to double (I was right about that), I decided to invite each year a different person - a blogger and a friend - to act as guest editor. Thus, the 2007 book was edited by Reed Cartwright, the 2008 one by Jennifer Rohn and the 2009 book by SciCurious.
I am sure you are all waiting with baited breath for me to…
clock | April 5, 2010Thanks, this year again, to Zen Faulkes for putting together the submission buttons that you can embed wherever you want on your sites and thus have easy way to submit an entry for Open Laboratory 2010 whenever you read a cool science post.
You should read the long-winded instructions about what is and isn't appropriate to submit, deadline, and other pertinent information.
And you should certainly buy (or tell your friends, colleagues, family and neighbors to buy) the 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions. Especially if you buy in April - we have entered the anthology into the April contest at…
clock | April 5, 2010Remember two years ago when I went to FEST in Trieste, Italy? (see pictures and coverage, e.g., this,this, this, this and more). Now nixed by Berlusconi who has other priorities than science, the FEST was one of the most exciting and famous science and technology events in the world. Sad that FEST is no more (at least temporarily), I am happy that a similar event will be held right here in the USA - the USA Science & Engineering Festival:
The Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival will be the country's first national science festival and will descend on the Washington, D.C. area…
clock | April 5, 2010Writing for more than glory: Proposals and Pitches that Pay - Rebecca Skloot with guests
Saturday, January 16 - 4:40 - 5:45pm
Description: What is a sellable idea? How do you develop one? Is your idea enough for a book, is there more you can do to develop it, or should it just be a magazine article or series of blog posts? This will be a hands-on nuts and bolts workshop: Come with ideas to pitch. Better yet, bring a short (1 page or less) written proposal to read and workshop. This workshop will provide handouts on proposal writing as well as sample proposals you can use to help develop your…
clock | April 5, 2010Long-time observers of the progressive blogopshere are likely aware of Barbara O' Brien and her blogging at The Mahablog, Crooks and Liars, AlterNet, and elsewhere. She was a panelist at the Yearly Kos Convention and a featured guest blogger at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, DC.
Now, Barbara has a new project - Mesothelioma Blog - where she is dissecting the Health Care Bill, the public concern of health care, and related issues in health care in the United States. The topics include health reform, public health, and asbestos contamination.. Check out Mesothelioma Blog…
clock | April 4, 2010Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie
clock | April 4, 2010In his ongoing series, Colin Schultz posted two excellent interviews, with Ferris Jabr and with Ed Yong. Both interviews are long-ish, and cover a lot of ground, e.g., about the importance of the "news hook" for science stories, the role of PIOs and press release sites, and the useless blogging vs. journalism wars.
clock | April 4, 2010There are 23 new articles in PLoS ONE published last Friday (sorry, I'm late....). 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 just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
ARNTL (BMAL1) and NPAS2 Gene Variants Contribute to Fertility and Seasonality:
Circadian clocks guide the metabolic, cell-division, sleep-wake, circadian and seasonal…
clock | April 4, 2010This blog was reviewed by Dr Justin Marley at The Amazing World of Psychiatry: A Psychiatry Blog. Check it out.
clock | April 4, 2010Writing for more than glory: Proposals and Pitches that Pay - Rebecca Skloot with guests
Saturday, January 16 - 4:40 - 5:45pm
Description: What is a sellable idea? How do you develop one? Is your idea enough for a book, is there more you can do to develop it, or should it just be a magazine article or series of blog posts? This will be a hands-on nuts and bolts workshop: Come with ideas to pitch. Better yet, bring a short (1 page or less) written proposal to read and workshop. This workshop will provide handouts on proposal writing as well as sample proposals you can use to help develop your…
clock | April 3, 2010Alas! There is no casting anchor in the stream of time!
- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
clock | April 3, 2010For those of you not subscribed to the PLoS Blog or everyONE blog, here are some of the latest news:
Introducing the PLoS Medicine iPhone application
A new search server is powering the PLoS journal websites
Author Spotlight: Interview with Joseph Sertich and Mark Loewen
PLoS ONE reviewed by leading library journal
Weekly PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up
Paleontology Research Articles in PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE Publishes 10,000th Manuscript!
You can get updates from PLoS on Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook.
clock | April 3, 2010Writing for more than glory: Proposals and Pitches that Pay - Rebecca Skloot with guests
Saturday, January 16 - 4:40 - 5:45pm
Description: What is a sellable idea? How do you develop one? Is your idea enough for a book, is there more you can do to develop it, or should it just be a magazine article or series of blog posts? This will be a hands-on nuts and bolts workshop: Come with ideas to pitch. Better yet, bring a short (1 page or less) written proposal to read and workshop. This workshop will provide handouts on proposal writing as well as sample proposals you can use to help develop your…
clock | April 3, 2010Carnival of Evolution #22 is up on Beetles In The Bush.
Festival of the Trees #46 is up on Vanessa's Trees and Shrubs Blog.
clock | April 2, 2010To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
clock | April 2, 2010I and the Bird #122 is up on Chuqui 3.0
Change of Shift - April Fools Edition - A Great Collection of Nursing Stories - is up on The Millionaire Nurse Blog
The Actual Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival is up on Greg Laden's blog
Friday Ark #289 is up on Modulator
clock | April 1, 2010Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
- Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist (1857-1913)
clock | April 1, 2010There are 63 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 just one click.
Note: you may have noticed that today's papers were not published last night as you are used to seeing them. Starting today, PLOS ONE papers are published online on the same date as the official publication date (at or close to 2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern, I believe). That same date/…
clock | April 1, 2010I posted 133 times in March.
I was quite focused on science communication and journalism this month and blogged quite a lot about these topics. See, for example, Why it is important for media articles to link to scientific papers, or New science journalism ecosystem: new inter-species interactions, new niches or What is journalism and do PIOs do it? And what's with advertising? or What is Journalism? or Push vs. Pull strategies in science communication.
And I was keeping tab on what others are saying: Science Journalism/Communication week in review, Science Journalism must-reads of the day,…