He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still. - Charles Caleb Colton
Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is marketing, and much more. We will discuss the many ways that podcasting technology and techniques can be used to help you reach your communication goals. Watch all six video parts of the recording of this session: Podcasting in Science, Part 1 Podcasting in Science, Part 2 Podcasting in Science, Part 3 Podcasting in Science, Part 4 Podcasting in Science, Part 5 Podcasting…
There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: Greedy Selection of Species for Ancestral State Reconstruction on Phylogenies: Elimination Is Better than Insertion: Accurate reconstruction of ancestral character states on a phylogeny is crucial in many…
I and the Bird #118, the Back 'o Beyond Edition, is up at Ben Cruachan - natural history Carnival of Evolution #20 is up on Skeptic Wonder
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton
Several items showed up recently that may be of interest to science bloggers, their readers, and related science communicators of various stripes.... A) Today, Eureka, the science section of London Times, published a list of Top 30 Science Blogs. Every list that has me in it is a good list ;-) They say "Zivkovic, who studies circadian rhythms, is an often-provocative evangelist for new media who has probably done more than anyone else to inspire scientists to blog. He is also a must-follow on Twitter, where he posts as @boraz" They could have had a more diverse group (in sense of gender,…
Yes, years after I left the lab, I published a scientific paper. How did that happen? Back in 2000, I published a paper on the way circadian clock controls the time of day when the eggs are laid in Japanese quail. Several years later, I wrote a blog post about that paper, trying to explain in lay terms what I did, why I did it, what I found, and how it fits into the broader context of this line of research. The paper was a physiology paper, and my blog post also focused on the physiological aspects of it. But then, I wrote (back in March 2006 - eons ago in Web-time) an additional blog post…
Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is marketing, and much more. We will discuss the many ways that podcasting technology and techniques can be used to help you reach your communication goals. Watch all six video parts of the recording of this session: Podcasting in Science, Part 1 Podcasting in Science, Part 2 Podcasting in Science, Part 3 Podcasting in Science, Part 4 Podcasting in Science, Part 5 Podcasting…
There are 24 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: Group Hunting--A Reason for Sociality in Molossid Bats?: Many bat species live in groups, some of them in highly complex social systems, but the reasons for sociality in bats remain largely unresolved.…
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. - Charles Bukowski
With Bex Walton moving on to another job, it is now my duty to take over posting about media coverage over on everyONE blog, as well as to pick a cool image of the week. So I started this week with Weekly PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up and Worth a Thousand Words. Take a look. Am I doing it right?
Jeff Polish's students at Cary Academy.
I wrote 134 posts in January. Unsurprisingly, a lot of that had to do with ScienceOnline (but there was other fun stuff as well, including some cool videos, images, etc.). I went to see a talk about Ecology, conservation, and restoration of oyster reefs in North Carolina and wrote a post about it. At the beginning of the month I announced the PLoS ONE Blog Pick Of The Month and later introduced the 3-D articles in PLoS ONE. We also announced the posts that will be published in The Open Laboratory 2009! In preperation for ScienceOnline2010, I wrote several posts breaking down the Program by…
Scientia Pro Publica Blog Carnival #20 is up on Kind of Curious Circus of the Spineless #47 is up on Beetles In The Bush Festival of the Trees #44 is up on Treeblog Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 19 are up on Musings of a Distractible Mind
Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is marketing, and much more. We will discuss the many ways that podcasting technology and techniques can be used to help you reach your communication goals. Watch all six video parts of the recording of this session: Podcasting in Science, Part 1 Podcasting in Science, Part 2 Podcasting in Science, Part 3 Podcasting in Science, Part 4 Podcasting in Science, Part 5 Podcasting…
Just checking in on a few of the new PLoS titles.... As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: Why We Conform: What makes us human, what sets us apart from other animal species, and which traits do we share with our closest living relatives? Ever since Darwin introduced the notion of…
I think that's why music is very very powerful. It helps people through the difficult times. - Celine Dion
The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences invite you to a SHARK FRENZY! "Big, Fast and Bulletproof: What One Biologist Has Learned From 300 Million Years Of Shark Evolution"** Free lecture by shark expert and "Finding Nemo" technical advisor Dr. Adam Summers, Assoc. Director of Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington Friday, February 12^th 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences 11 W. Jones Street, Downtown Raleigh Space is limited. Reserve your free ticket now at https://tickets.naturalsciences.org While you…
Description: What role does podcasting play in science? In fact, it plays many. More than just a way to broadcast ideas, podcasting is the beginning of a conversation, it is the archiving of methodologies, it is news, it is marketing, and much more. We will discuss the many ways that podcasting technology and techniques can be used to help you reach your communication goals. Watch all six video parts of the recording of this session: Podcasting in Science, Part 1 Podcasting in Science, Part 2 Podcasting in Science, Part 3 Podcasting in Science, Part 4 Podcasting in Science, Part 5 Podcasting…
There are 21 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: Drinking and Flying: Does Alcohol Consumption Affect the Flight and Echolocation Performance of Phyllostomid Bats?: In the wild, frugivorous and nectarivorous bats often eat fermenting fruits and nectar,…