clock | January 25, 2008Carnival of Space, Week 38 - The Adventures of Shorty Barlow, Private Eye - is up on Sorting Out Science
Friday Ark #175 is up on the Modulator
clock | January 24, 2008You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
- Horace
clock | January 24, 2008Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash:
The most detailed three-dimensional seismic images yet of the Chicxulub crater, a mostly submerged and buried impact crater on the Mexico coast, may modify a theory explaining the extinction of 70 percent of life on Earth 65 million years ago.
Jacky Dragons Are Born When The Temperature Is Right For Their Sex:
An Iowa State University researcher spent four years in Australia studying reptiles. Dan Warner, a researcher in the ecology, evolution and organismal biology department, has been working with the jacky dragon, a lizard…
clock | January 24, 2008The day before yesterday, my copy of The Open Laboratory 2007, the second annual science blogging anthology, arrived in the mail.
So yesterday, Reed and I met at a coffee shop and looked it over. It looks great! Reed knows what he's doing and is a perfectionist, so of course the book looks perfect.
So, I went back online to Lulu.com and approved the book to be sold in various online and offline bookstores. The book information will be sent to Bowker's Books In Print and once approved by Bowker, Lulu will upload the title to their distribution network. This process is generally completed…
clock | January 24, 2008[Bumped up to make it easier for me to update, and links placed under the fold so not to clutter the front page]
Here's a collection of blog posts written during the Science Blogging Conference (more will be added over the next couple of days as people write their posts after recovering from travel) and the collection of video recordings of several sessions. Also, check out all the other action from today....
Friday, January 18th, 2008: Blogging101, Lab Tours and Dinner
A Blog Around The Clock: Science Blogging Conference - Blog and Media Coverage
A Blog Around The Clock: No matter where you…
clock | January 24, 2008I and the Bird #67 - Let's all go on a birding holiday - is up on Trevor's Birding blog.
Change of Shift: Volume 2, Number 14 is up on Pixel RN
clock | January 23, 2008The Duke Medical Center News Office is seeking a Sr. Science News Writer to be responsible for planning, developing, implementing and analyzing strategic comprehensive and diversified media relations programs and tactics. Through direct support of Duke Medicine strategic objectives and the associated strategic plan, the Sr. Science News Writer accrues value to the Duke brand through local, regional and national news exposure.
The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Journalism, English or a related discipline and at least 5 years of extensive media relations or science news…
clock | January 23, 2008Do you like ClockQuotes? Do you ever read them? Excitedly wait every night until 4am EST for them to post?
How about YouTube videos of 1970s/80s Yugoslav music? Like them? Dance and sing along?
What about My picks from ScienceDaily? Is that a useful filtering service to you? Is that a place where you find stories you are interested in?
Thing is, those things are easy and quick to post and I am sure there will be three posts per day no matter how busy or tired I am and the traffic will come at least from the Last24Hours page for a little while. But it is a filler. Have you even noticed…
clock | January 23, 2008On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom and the student blogging panel, here is the opportunity for some of us (that means YOU!) to actually do something about science education online:
Elissa Hoffman is a high school teacher and she has started a blog for her AP Biology class at Appleton East High School in Appleton, WI. She would like it to be a platform with which she can introduce her students to current science research and scientists. One of the things she'd really like to do is find people who'd be interested in "guest blogging" on…
clock | January 23, 2008
Pure Pedantry is a great blog. Jake writes some cool neuroscience stuff, and an occasional political post I disagree with (but not enough to start a blogwar). Kara Contreary has recently retired (though we'll see how long that lasts!) so Jake has been all alone and wondering what to do. Of course, he could just coast along, threating the primacy of Pharyngula in traffic due to his Britney Spears post that is so popular these days.
If people come to Pure Pedantry for Britney and then look around, you know what they are looking for...
Well, that is sorta what they will get. Sorta. Sex,…
clock | January 23, 2008This movement is really gathering some serious momentum! On top of an already impressive list of supporters, the real 600lb gorilla has joined in the effort - the American Association for the Advancement of Science just put out a press release that is worth reading!
clock | January 23, 2008Tangled Bank #97 - The Frozen Bank - is up on The Inoculated Mind
Accretionary Wedge #5 - Geological Misconceptions and Pie - is up on Green Gabbro
Grand Rounds Vol. 4 No. 18 - The All Too Common Cold - is up on ButYouDontLookSick
Carnival of the Green # 111 is up on TREEconomist
The Carnival Of Education #155 is up on The Median Sib
The latest Carnival of the Recipes is up on Hillbilly Willy -Fun, Food & Politics
The Carnival of Homeschooling - American Literature Edition - is up on Alasandra
clock | January 23, 2008If you have not done it yet, please fill a brief questionnaire about your experience at the Science Blogging Conference. We will meet in a couple of weeks to analyze how it went and to start brainstorming the ways we can make the next conference even better.
So far, we received 46 responses through that form and have been reading them carefully. One of the responders was not even there - he fully participated in the proceedings online, watching the streaming videos and participating in chatrooms in real time, then blogging about it. I wish there was a way to send locopops - the high point…
clock | January 23, 2008Dave and Co. have been working hard over the past few months and now (actually on Saturday at the Conference) Dave announces that ResearchBlogging.org is live and in action! The BPR3 site, where the entire initiative was hashed out and built will continue to serve as the News Blog.
So, register your blog. Whenever you write a post about a peer-reviewed paper, put in the icon (if you want - you can make it invisible) and go to the RB site to resolve the DOI of the paper so it shows up in your post as a proper reference. Shortly after you publish the post, the link will show up on the…
clock | January 23, 2008On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom and the student blogging panel comes the announcement that SPARC has declared the winners of the first SPARKY Awards for student-generated videos on the theme of openess of information. The winner is Habib Yazdi, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with the video entitled "Share." The three winning videos are under the fold:
clock | January 22, 2008On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom, this initiative is really exciting:
Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education, Call for Free, Adaptable Learning Materials Online
Cape Town, January 22nd, 2008--A coalition of educators, foundations, and internet pioneers today urged governments and publishers to make publicly-funded educational materials available freely over the internet.
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, launched today, is part of a dynamic effort to make learning and teaching…
clock | January 22, 2008From Sage Ross, via John Lynch come exciting news about a new Open Access Journal - Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science
Spontaneous Generations is a new online academic journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto. The journal aims to establish a platform for interdisciplinary discussion and debate about issues that concern the community of scholars in HPS and related fields.
Apart from selecting peer reviewed articles, the journal encourages a direct dialogue…
clock | January 22, 2008There is a lot of new stuff published this week in PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and PLoS ONE.
Molecular Studies in Treponema pallidum Evolution: Toward Clarity? is an Expert Commentary on last week's (widely reported) study On the Origin of the Treponematoses: A Phylogenetic Approach (the paper that suggests that Columbus brought syphilis from the New World back to Europe).
Looking at the 33 new articles on PLoS ONE, here are a few titles I found intriguing:
Seasonal Changes in Mood and Behavior Are Linked to Metabolic Syndrome:
Obesity is a major public…