clock | October 24, 2007David Ng started it. This was a quick and easy one for me - let me know if other queries bring up one of my blogs to the 1st spot on Google searches:
'I want this job'
'open laboratory 2008'
femiphobia
femiphobic
Bora Zivkovic
clock | October 24, 2007There are 87 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 103 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we'll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Heather Soja is the Focus Program Lead Teacher and the Biology teacher at the brilliant AHS Zoo School in Asheboro, NC. Yes, that…
clock | October 23, 2007You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
- Dr. M. Scott Peck
clock | October 23, 2007A quick update on the Milwaukee events....
The first time I went to Mocha's (much better wifi than the hotel and it is free) I saw a familiar face walk in - from Scifoo! World is small. She promised to come to the Science Blogging Conference (I am leaving the name out so not to play Gotcha later if she manages not to come in January). Jean-Claude, Janet, Christina Pikas and I went to dinner at Water Street Brewery last night - all four of us will meet again in January at the Science Blogging Conference. Janet, Jean-Claude and I had lunch at 105-year old German Mader's Restaurant. Back at…
clock | October 23, 2007Back at delightful Mocha's cafe on the corner...
We just finished our session at the ASIS&T conference: Opening Science to All: Implications of Blogs and Wikis for Social and Scholarly Scientific Communication, organized by K.T. Vaughan, moderated by Phillip Edwards. Janet Stemwedel, Jean-Claude Bradley and I were the panelists. There were about 50-60 people in the audience who asked some excellent questions afterwards.
I started off with defining science blogs and various uses they can be put to, in particular how they interact with other ways of scientific communication such as Open…
clock | October 23, 2007There are 88 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 96 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we'll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Abel PharmBoy is a good friend of mine and a great blogger on Terra Sigillata. He "writes on natural product drugs and dietary…
clock | October 22, 2007Gosh that takes me back ... or forward. That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell.
- Dr. Who
clock | October 22, 2007So, while I still have a few more minutes on this wonderful wifi (another Scifoo camper attending ASIS&T meeting just walked into the coffee-shop a few minutes ago - how the world is small!), let me summarize my thoughts on ConvergeSouth2007 before they are erased by the new memories generated by the ASIS&T conference.
First of all, I'd like to congratulate Sue, Ed, jw, Ben, Sean and the rest of the Greensboro crew for a fantastic job - the third year in a row - of organizing this conference. It is my favourite: I get to meet all of my friends at least once a year there. And next…
clock | October 22, 2007Why is it that there is no way to even mention anything about sea cucumbers without giggling and the thinly-veiled sexual innuendo? Seeing them, as a kid, on the floor of the crystal-clear waters of the Adriatic sea, my thoughts mainly went toward scatological...
clock | October 22, 2007No time to experience Clifford Simak's Wisconsin, but Mocha (124 W. Wisconsin Ave.) in Milwaukee is very comfortable, mocha is excellent and wifi is strong (and free). I'll be able to check in the room in an hour or two and will go to some ASIS&T sessions if I can without a name-badge. Our session is in the morning.
Jean-Claude, Janet, KT Vaughan (who I met at last year's Science Blogging Conference) and Phillip Edwards will arrive a little later and we'll go for dinner and fun on the town.
Report - tomorrow.
clock | October 22, 2007There are 89 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 96 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we'll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Jennifer Jacquet is a Ph.D. student with the Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre. She…
clock | October 21, 2007To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time.'
- Dr. Smiley Blanton
clock | October 21, 2007More than 234 journals throughout the world will simultaneously publish articles devoted to the topic of poverty and human development tomorrow, on October 22nd, 2007. You can get more information, including the links to all the participating journals at The Council of Science Editors.
Out of those hundreds of papers, seven were specially chosen (by a panel of NIH and CSE experts) and will be presented, by their authors, at an event in Masur Auditorium, NIH Clinical Center (Bldg. 10) at 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. today. It is free for public, so if you are in the area, you should go and see this…
clock | October 21, 2007I just realized that I stupidly did not notice that my flight to Milwaukee tomorrow is at 6am instead of 6pm and I apparently cannot change that now. So, I am in a panic, trying to get some work done on a Sunday afternoon instead of tomorrow. If you are in Milwaukee, give me a holler - I'll be wondering around town...probably having lunch at a Serbian restaurant, than finding a wifi spot somewhere if possible (actually the Monday program at ASIS&T is more interesting to me than Tuesday, but I would then have to pay the registration to attend). Our Science 2.0 session is on Tuesday…
clock | October 21, 2007Heather Morrison:
Opposition to open access continues, while anti-OA coalition attempt implodes
Would a bold politician speak up for an unprecedented public good?
Full OA is a reasonable position, plus, compromise takes two!
Peter Murray-Rast:
Reconciling points of View
Deepak Singh:
Steve Brenner's Genome Commons
Glyn Moody:
Should We Tolerate Tolerated Use?
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
ALA Says Contact Senate Before Noon Tomorrow to Support NIH Open Access Mandate
Richard Poynder:
The Basement Interviews: Peter Suber
Jonathan Eisen:
Whose genome should Roche/454 sequence to make up for selecting…
clock | October 21, 2007E-mail I got yesterday - please spread this around ASAP:
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The Senate is currently considering the FY08 Labor-HHS Bill, which includes a provision (already approved by the House of Representatives and the full Senate Appropriations Committee), that directs the NIH to change its Public Access Policy so that participation is required (rather than requested) for researchers, and ensures free, timely public access to articles resulting from NIH-funded research. On Friday, Senator Inhofe (R-OK), filed two amendments (#3416 and #3417), which call for the language to…
clock | October 21, 2007Yes, you may have heard the big news that Professor Dumbledore is out of the closet. As if it was big news - it was so obvious. Watch the Far Right throw a hissy-fit about it anyway.
And yes, Jim Neal, the Democratic candidate for Senate, challenging Elizabeth Dole here in North Carolina, is also gay. Not that it is big news, either. Again, watch the Far Right throw a hissy-fit about it anyway. Who but them would care?
clock | October 21, 2007There are 90 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 96 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we'll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Liz Allen is the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Public Library of Science and she would love it if you joined the…
clock | October 20, 2007Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
clock | October 20, 2007New articles in PLoS Pathogens, PLoS Computational Biology and PLoS Genetics were published on Friday. My picks for this week are:
Influenza Virus Transmission Is Dependent on Relative Humidity and Temperature:
In temperate regions influenza epidemics recur with marked seasonality: in the northern hemisphere the influenza season spans November to March, while in the southern hemisphere epidemics last from May until September. Although seasonality is one of the most familiar features of influenza, it is also one of the least understood. Indoor crowding during cold weather, seasonal…