clock | March 24, 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 Dennis Meredith 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 | March 24, 2010I was in Boston last two days, and mostly offline, so the news of the announcements of ResearchBlogging.org Awards found me on Twitter, on my iPhone during a brief break of the PRI/BBC/Nova/Sigma Xi/WGBH/The World meeting. Thus, apart from a couple of quick retweets, I did not have the opportunity until now to take a better look and to say something about it.
You can see the news at the Seed site and download the official press release. And listening to the podcast about the awards AND opening the envelopes with winners's names is great fun.
Then, take some time to go through the list of all…
clock | March 24, 2010There are 27 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. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
A New Basal Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of Southern Utah:
Basal sauropodomorphs, or 'prosauropods,' are a globally widespread paraphyletic assemblage of terrestrial…
clock | March 23, 2010When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
- Stephen King
clock | March 23, 2010Wow! I often get the vibes and hints in the background and through the grapevine when the Borg is about to swallow yet another unsuspecting science blogger. But this took me totally by surprise! And it could not have happened to a worthier blogger. Go say Hello to Christie Wilcox who just moved her delicious blog Observations Of A Nerd from here to its new digs here. Welcome to the Family! (you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave....)
clock | March 23, 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 Diana Gitig 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) background?
I…
clock | March 23, 2010This is the first time ever that I cared about SXSW conference or was jealous for not being there. Watching the blogs and Twitter stream, it appears to have been better and more exciting than ever. I guess I'll have to figure out a way to finally get myself there next year....
But this post is not really about SXSW. It is about presenting at such conferences. More specifically, how the back-channel (on Twitter and elsewhere) affects the way one needs to approach an invitation to speak at meetings where much of the audience is highly wired online: to say Yes or No to the invitation in the…
clock | March 23, 2010This is a part of Scope Academy 2010 at NCSU (click to see the rest of the program and to register):
SAS Hall, North Campus, April 10th, 4:00 pm
Scope/Harrelson Lecture
Keynote speaker Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University and senior fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, presents:
America's Science Challenges and Opportunities: Past, Present and Future
The United States, especially since World War II, has been powered by science, engineering and technology. The rationale for the federal government's large investment in research was…
clock | March 22, 2010Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
- Christopher Morley
clock | March 22, 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 Ivan Oransky from Reuters Health and Embargo Watch 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)?…
clock | March 22, 2010The 2010 North Carolina Science and Engineering Fair will be held at Meredith College in Raleigh on March 26th-27th. You can see the details here. The part that is open to public will be on Saturday March 27th from 2:30 - 4:00 pm.
From the NC Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center:
Young scientists from across the state will gather at Meredith College in Raleigh on Sat., March 27, to participate in the N.C. Science and Engineering Fair (NCSEF). Students from 3rd grade through 12th grade will present original science and engineering research. NCSEF showcases the highest level of…
clock | March 22, 2010My SciBling Rebecca Skloot will be here in the Triangle for a couple of days this week promoting her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I'll be out of town for most of this (off to Boston in a couple of hours), but you should come to one or more of these events if you can:
Monday night 3/22, 7:30 pm she'll be at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh just off the Wade Ave exit on I-40:
Tuesday 3/23, noon, she'll be Frank Stasio's guest on The State of Things at WUNC-FM 91.5
Tuesday 3/23, 3 pm, she'll be the keynote speaker of a mini-symposium on African American issues in science, medicine, and…
clock | March 22, 2010The new issue of Journal of Science Communication is now online (Open Access, so you can download all PDFs for free). Apart from the article on blogging that we already dissected at length, this issue has a number of interesting articles, reviews, perspectives and papers:
Users and peers. From citizen science to P2P science:
This introduction presents the essays belonging to the JCOM special issue on User-led and peer-to-peer science. It also draws a first map of the main problems we need to investigate when we face this new and emerging phenomenon. Web tools are enacting and facilitating new…
clock | March 22, 2010There are 32 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. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Laetoli Footprints Preserve Earliest Direct Evidence of Human-Like Bipedal Biomechanics:
Debates over the evolution of hominin bipedalism, a defining human characteristic, revolve around whether early…
clock | March 21, 2010You can't put a Band-Aid on every boo-boo you've made; some just need time to heal...
- Christina Montano
clock | March 21, 2010Over the past week, if you are not a regular visitor to the everyONE blog you may have missed those, we have posted an Update to PLoS Article-Level Metrics Data, the regular Weekly PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up and the 'featured image' post - Worth a Thousand Words. Check them out.
clock | March 21, 2010Three thought-provoking reads (even more thought-provoking taken together than each in isolation):
Crowdsourcing Honesty?:
In short, we are far more likely to be honest when reminded of morality, especially when temptation strikes. Ariely thus concludes that the act of taking an oath can make all the difference.
Craig Newmark on the Web's Next Big Problem:
And what is that? The question of who to trust online, according to Newmark. To solve it, he believes that what the web needs is a "distributed trust network" that allows us to manage our online relationships and reputations. I just…
clock | March 20, 2010
A shark conservation documentary and lesson plan, made by David Shiffman of Southern Fried Science.
clock | March 20, 2010Sunday, January 17 at 9-10:05am
E. Science online talks between generations - Beatrice Lugger and Christian Rapp:
Description: In huge meetings around the world several organizations try to initiate a dialogue between top scientists and young researchers -the Lindau Meetings of Nobel Laureates are one of them providing numerous opportunities for an exchange of ideas and thoughts between young researchers and Nobel Laureates. The idea is to support this dialogue with a special platform in the web, where current science topics can be discussed and the talks and thoughts can be followed by a…