
Video is taking over science communication. And why not? Now that paper is outdated, the limitations of that ancient technology should not apply to scientific publishing any more. Just because paper cannot support movies does not mean that modern scientific papers should shy away from using them.
Last week saw the launch of SciVee, essentially an aggregator of science movies. Now, you may ask - why do we need yet another one of those sites? There are several out there already. Journal of Visualized Experiments is a real journal - the videos are submitted and reviewed first and, if…
OK, this will be the last series of pictures of my Sciblings from the shindig of the past weekend. As you may have noticed, several others have posted their recollections and pictures on their blogs. You can also see some pictures on Flickr and Facebook and please add and tag more if you have them.
I have noticed it several times before, but this is something that really came out in full force at the Meetup as we really feel like an online family - meeting people online can produce real freindships. Then, when you meet offline for the first time after years of cyberchatter, there is…
Here (under the fold) are some pictures of the frogs from the American Museum of Natural History
Thanks to Sheril who provided us with tickets, a bunch of us Sciblings went to the American Museum of Natural History on Saturday afternoon (pictures under the fold) and saw "Galactic Collision" - a planetarium-style presentation with awesome special effects (no cameras allowed, unfortunately), as well as an exhibit about frogs (difficult to get good pics, but I will choose a few semi-decent ones and post them later).
OK, so a bunch of us sciencebloggers went to New York City this weekend. This is something that we were trying to do for almost a year now. Sure, many of us Sciblings have met one-on-one on occasion, but this was an opportunity to get many of us together all in the same place at the same time, to have fun together and see what happens.
So, on Friday, most of us managed to meet at Seed magazine's (and scienceblogs.com) offices. That is where we started on our first beers....(see my pictures from the event posted on Saturday, as well as other people's pictures)
Then we went to a Brewery on…
When we compare the present life of man with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the flight of a lone sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you sit in the winter months. This sparrow flies swiftly in one door of the hall and out through another. Similarly, man appears on earth for a little while, but we know nothing of what went on before this life, and what follows.
- The Venerable Bede
Under the fold, Saturday morning pictures from New York City Sciblings meetup, at Union Square Inn and a pastry/coffee place where we had breakfast
Suzanne Franks
Dave and Greta Munger
Dave Munger, Rob Knop and Mo Costandi
Evil Monkey and Tara Smith
Janet Stemwedel
Janet Stemwedel and Karmen Franklin
Karmen Franklin and Sheril Kirshenbaum
Kevin Beck
Me again....
Me and Mo Costandi
Mo Costandi
Mo Costandi and Rob Knop
Mo Costandi, Rob Knop and Dave Munger
Rob Knop
Rob Knop, Dave Munger and Janet Stemwedel
RPM
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Steve Higgins
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Housekeeping…
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T. S. Eliot
A bunch of Sciblings meeting at the Seed offices in New York City on Friday Afternoon....updated with a couple of more pictures and links....(several more people came late, after my batteries died...)
Chris Rowan
Jennifer Jacquet
Katherine Sharpe
Katherine Sharpe
Katherine Sharpe, Virginia Hughes and Mo Costandi
Katherine Sharpe, Virginia Hughes and Chris Rowan
Catharine Zivkovic
Chad Orzel
Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney, Ginny Hughes, Karmen Franklin, Janet Stemwedel and me.
Chris Rowan and Mo Costandi
Evil Monkey, PZ Myers and Tara Smith
Ginny Hughes
Ginny Hughes…
To me.
My very first post was on August 18, 2004 - seems like a century ago.
Anyway, the wifi at the hotel is very week so I will have to wait until Monday to post a couple of hundred pictures from the Seed scienceblogs meetup. In the meantime, I have placed a few of the pics on Facebook, and the Flickr tag is 'sciblings07'.
Come and meet the Sciblings
About 30 or so of us Seed sciencebloggers are in New York City this weekend (many, many pictures to come), but if you want to see for yourself that we actually exist and our blogs are not written by robots, meet us at BBar and Grill at the corner of Bowery and 3rd starting around 7pm until they kick us out.
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
- Oscar Wilde
Male Elephants Get 'Photo IDs' From Scientists:
Asian elephants don't carry photo identification, so scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and India's Nature Conservation Foundation are providing the service free of charge by creating a photographic archive of individual elephants, which can help save them as well.
Cat Disease Linked To Flame Retardants In Furniture And To Pet Food:
A mysterious epidemic of thyroid disease among pet cats in the United States may be linked to exposure to dust shed from flame retardants in household carpeting, furniture, fabrics and pet food,…
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
- Stephen King
Little to no blogging for the weekend, unless I hit gold with some free wifi somewhere. Out of town. Will be back....
As could have been expected, I am now officially the blogmeister of the PLoS blog. I have just posted my first introductory post there. It is a Drupal blog. The above and below the fold parts are separate (you see one or the other, not both at the same time) so this will take some getting used to. There will be, in the coming weeks and months, changes to the blog and I want your input. Post your suggestions in the comments over there. The comments are moderated for now due to excessive influx of spam, so be patient when you post comments there - I will approve them as fast as I can.
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