clock | March 2, 2008The proposal for link journalism is not a new concept, though the phrase is good. This is something that bloggers have been doing for years and have been imploring the corporate media to adopt for years. On paper, you can provide references in the footnotes or endnotes, or you can mention "unnamed sources", but in the age of the Web, it is sheer blindness not to use links - nobody will trust you if they cannot click and instantly verify your statements. Remember - no links, no reputation.
clock | March 2, 2008I just noticed recently, when looking up a paper in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, that SAGE publishing group is starting to offer the Open Access option to the authors in some of its Journals:
Independent scholarly publisher, SAGE Publications, is now offering authors of papers published on SAGE Journals Online, the option to make their primary research articles freely available on publication. The 'SAGE Open' publishing option has been launched primarily to ensure that authors can comply with new stringent funding body requirements, (for example those now in place from the Wellcome…
clock | March 2, 2008Sue announces that the website will be up in two weeks, and the blog is already up and running. You can help with organization. In any case, mark you calendars:
ConvergeSouth 2008 will be held on October 16-17, 2008 in Greensboro, North Carolina. BlogHer will be held on October 18.
clock | March 2, 2008The March SCONC meeting will be Wednesday, March 5, at 6 p.m. at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in RTP. The evening will include presentations on how NIEHS research impacts public health, the new NIEHS Web site and highlights of a few of the Institute's important research programs.
clock | March 2, 2008Anne-Marie reviews two books that appear to be useful in thinking about one's career in science: The Beginner's Guide to Winning a Nobel Prize, by Peter Doherty, and The Chicago Guide to Landing a Job in Academic Biology, by Chandler, Wolfe, and Promislow. Read the review and, if you think this is something you need, buy the books.
And, if you have additional recommendations, let Anne-Marie know in her comments.
clock | March 2, 2008The latest Festival of the Trees is up on Orchards Forever.
The 26th edition of Gene Genie is up on ScienceBase
clock | March 1, 2008Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
clock | March 1, 2008Fighting Australian Crayfish Do Not Forget The Face Of Foes:
The fighting Australian yabby, a type of crayfish, smaller than a lobster but similar in appearance, does not forget the face of its foes says new research from University of Melbourne zoologists. The two year study involving over 100 pairs of yabbies revealed that the species Cherax destructor is capable of facial recognition of individuals, particularly its opponents.
Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less Water:
An ability to avoid the plant equivalent of vapor lock and a favorable evolutionary history may explain the unusual drought…
clock | March 1, 2008You probably heard that representatives of two presidential campaigns showed up at the AAAS meeting last month in Boston and partipated in a panel, which may lead to the ScienceDebate08 becoming reality. Now, The New Scientist provides the video of this event with some commentary:
See all the videos here.
clock | March 1, 2008The First Anniversary edition of Scientiae is up on Rants of a feminist engineer
Four Stone Hearth #35 is up on Archaeoporn
History Carnival #62 is up on Spinning Clio : Where History and Politics Meet
Friday Ark #180 is up on Modulator
clock | February 29, 2008Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
- Emile Auguste Chartier
clock | February 29, 2008The World We Don't Live In
Michael Nielsen
A & A's Excellent Adventure
Ecosystems and Poverty
Rat in the Lab
The Biology Refugia
Fresh Brainz
clock | February 29, 2008Two of the papers published today in PLoS Genetics (now on the TOPAZ platform) got my attention:
Redundant Function of REV-ERBα and β and Non-Essential Role for Bmal1 Cycling in Transcriptional Regulation of Intracellular Circadian Rhythms:
Circadian clocks in plants, fungi, insects, and mammals all share a common transcriptional network architecture. At the cellular level, the mammalian clockwork consists of a core Per/Cry negative feedback loop and additional interlocking loops. We wished to address experimentally the contribution of the interlocking Bmal1 loop to clock function in…
clock | February 29, 2008See the moment when the lion recognizes the guys who raised him as a cub:
Hat-tip: Melissa
clock | February 29, 2008Though, at some times and places in history, February 24th was considered to be the Leap Day. For the more science-oriented folks, Phil Plait explains why we have leap days.
clock | February 29, 2008Watch to the end to see how just huge this thing is!
From Frischer Wind, via Page 3.14
clock | February 29, 2008Book excerpt in today's Wall Street Journal: Chapter 6: Wired:
It is likely that insomnia will increase with the expansion of the 24-hour economy into more and more lives, and more of each life, because wakefulness and the wired world go together. The more interconnected we are, the more we communicate, and the more we communicate, the more we rely on our interconnected powers of thinking. In addition to work, many of our leisure pursuits, while seemingly soporific, actually undermine the likelihood of restful sleep, from drinking alcohol to surfing the net to watching thrillers on late-night…
clock | February 28, 2008Here we see how potent has been the effect of the introduction of a single tree, nothing whatever else having been done, with the exception that the land had been enclosed so that cattle could not enter. But how important an enclosure is, I plainly saw in Farnham, in Surrey. Here there are extensive heaths, with a few clumps of old Scotch firs on the distant hill tops: within the last ten years large spaces have been enclosed, and self-sown first are now springing up in multitudes, so close together that all cannot live.
- Charles R. Darwin, Origin of Species, p.123
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