clock | January 20, 2008Here are a few pictures from the Friday night dinner at Town Hall Grill (under the fold):
clock | January 20, 2008SciPhi 08
Data Not Shown
The INFO Project Blog
The Inverse Square Blog
George Folkerts
The Choctawhatchee Search
clock | January 20, 2008On Friday afternoon, I went to one of the Lab Tours with several participants of the Science Blogging Conference to the NC Museum of Natural Science in downtown Raleigh, where we were treated to a royal tour of the fossil lab, the vaults and the exhibits:
clock | January 20, 2008After the Blogging101 session, I went to Radisson and had lunch with several science bloggers freshly arrived for the Science Blogging Conference, but I was too excited about meeting them, and to interested in my food to be a good photographer, so I only took a couple of shots of Dave and Elisabeth:
clock | January 20, 2008Here are just a couple of pictures from the Friday morning hands-on session on Blogging101 - the very beginning of the Science Blogging Conference:
clock | January 20, 2008Gene Genie #24 is up on biomarker-driven mental health 2.0
Friday Ark#174 is up on Modulator
Peer Reviewed Journal of The Carnival of the Godless is up on Tangled Up in Blue Guy as well!
clock | January 20, 2008There is a new carnival on the intertubes, Berry Go Round for blog posts on all things plant-related. The first edition will appear at the end of the month on Sead Aside so send your entries pronto.
clock | January 18, 2008I spent a lot of time today offline (and in the car), and I am exhausted, but here is a very brief summary of the day (I'll post the pictures and update the blog linkfest later - UPDATE: I just updated the Blog and Media Coverage page).
After the Blogging Skills Session, I drove a couple of participants back to the hotel, where we met up with several other bloggers for lunch. From there, we went to one of the afternoon Lab Tours - the one to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh, where the exhibit director Roy Campbell gave us a brilliant, informative and witty exclusive tour…
clock | January 18, 2008Sitting in the UNC Health Science Library computer lab. There's about 20 of us. Most people are relatively new to blogging and they are asking excellent questions. Anton Zuiker is leading the session. Brian Russell, Wayne Sutton and I pitch in as needed.
clock | January 17, 2008Yes, about 200-something people will be participating in the Science Blogging Conference in the real space and real time, being physically present. But, both those who are here and those who are not should also participate online.
Here are the three main places to do so:
1. The Wiki
The main conference wiki, set up by Anton Zuiker, is the center of the conference universe. Look around and see what is happening. Check the 'Recent Activity' tab to see who made changes to what page recently. Feel free to edit pages - no need to enter the e-mail address (it will reject your edit) - just solve…
clock | January 17, 2008The Science Blogging Conference is tomorrow and Saturday. We have 214 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
I have been highlighting the participants for the past couple of months, and today is the time for the final part of this roll-call:
Stuart Pimm is the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School at Duke University
Nancy Shepherd is the Director of Technology Licensing and Worldwide Business Development at GlaxoSmithKline
Tania Mucci is a medical student at Jefferson Medical College
Clinton Colmenares is the Research Editor at UNC News…
clock | January 17, 2008You can follow the conversation about the Conference by checking in, every now and then, the Blog and Media Coverage page on the wiki. The links to date can also be found under the fold...
If you want your posts to be easily detected and included in the listing, please use 'scienceblogging.com' as a tag, or as text or link inside your post.
Media Coverage
Raleigh News & Observer (Dan Barkin): Bloggers to talk science
BlueSci, Cambridge UK (Mica Tatalovic), pp.30-31: Science Blogging (pdf)
BT Catalyst (NC Biotechnology Center): The BT Catalyst Interview with Christopher R. Brodie
M.…
clock | January 16, 2008Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
- Richard David Bach
clock | January 16, 2008Skeptics' Circle #78 - The "Still High From The Chelation" Edition - is up on The Skeptical Surfer
Carnival of the Liberals #56 is up on Blue Gal
The 107th Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Consent Of The Governed
clock | January 16, 2008Lots of cool stuff at PLoS lately....
First, there is a great review in PLoS Medicine, that should be of interest to scienceblogs.com readers: Plague: Past, Present, and Future:
The causative bacterium (Yersinia pestis) was discovered by Yersin in 1894 [11] (see also [63]). Case-fatality ratio varies from 30% to 100%, if left untreated. Plague is endemic in many countries in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. More than 90% of cases are currently being reported from Africa.
Clinical presentation: After an incubation period of 3-7 days, patients typically experience a sudden onset of fever, chills…
clock | January 16, 2008I always try to watch debates by erasing all of my prior information, just like a "virgin" voter, seeing the candidates for the first time. And with such a mindset, I have to say I was proud to be a Democrat last night! There were three formidable people up on the stage, obviously intelligent, thoughtful, capable and passionate.
It was easy to like Hillary while she was talking, and Barack when he was talking, and John when he was talking. They also seemed completely equal - there was no sense of the media-driven "two-person" race on that stage last night - it was unquestionably a three-…
clock | January 15, 2008Alvaro is helping the effort to start a Science Debate 2008 with his theme for this week's Grand Rounds: Briefing the Next US President, up on SharpBrains
The 13th edition of Oekologie - the One Year Anniversary edition! - is up on The Infinite Sphere
Carnival of the Green # 110 is up on Inventor Spot
clock | January 14, 2008
Well, The Day has arrived! The Open Laboratory 2007, the 2nd anthology of the best science blogging of the year, is now up for sale on Lulu.com!
Yes, you can buy it right here!
In a few weeks (and I will be sure to tell you), the book will also available in online and offline bookstores.
You can read the background story, see all the submitted entries and the winning 53 posts.
All the kudos go to this year's editor, Reed Cartwright for doing a magnificent job on every aspect of the process - from summoning posts for submission, getting volunteers to judge the posts and providing all sorts…