clock | December 12, 2009There will be, at ScienceOnline2010, at least two sessions dedicated to books and book publishing - From Blog to Book: Using Blogs and Social Networks to Develop Your Professional Writing and Writing for more than glory: Proposals and Pitches that Pay - as well as several others that will at least mention books as vehicles for distributing scientific information, popularization of science, or science education.
This got me thinking....about ways that the Web is changing the world of the book. I can think of three aspects of this:
1) Changes in the process of writing a book
It may not be a…
clock | December 12, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 4:30 - 5:35pm:
A. Online Reference Managers - John Dupuis and Christina Pikas moderating, with Kevin Emamy, Jason Hoyt, Trevor Owens and Michael Habib (Scopus) in the 'hot seats'.
Description: Reference managers, sometimes called citation managers or bibliography managers, help you keep, organize, and re-use citation information. A few years ago, the options were limited to expensive proprietary desktop clients or BibTeX for people writing in LaTeX. Now we've got lots of…
clock | December 11, 2009Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
- Bernard Baruch
clock | December 11, 2009Carnival of Evolution #18 is up on Biochemicalsoul
Change of Shift, Volume Four, No. 11 is up at Emergiblog
Friday Ark #273 is up on Modulator
clock | December 11, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Kevin Emamy develops and runs CiteULike. You can read my interview with Kevin from a few months ago. At the conference, he will participate in the Online Reference Managers session.
Rhitu Chatterjee is the Multimedia Science Journalist and Podcast Host at The BBC/WGBH/PRI's World Science. She is on Twitter and at the Conference she will do a demo of World Science.…
clock | December 10, 2009All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
- Benjamin McLane Spock
clock | December 10, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Felice Frankel is a famous science photographer. She works at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School's Systems Biology, the Wyss Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder of the Image and Meaning series of workshops and conferences and leads the NSF-funded program Picturing to Learn. She has published some amazing books of science…
clock | December 9, 2009It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
- Benjamin Franklin
clock | December 9, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Peter Binfield is the Managing Editor of PLoS ONE and the Publisher at PLoS (all titles except Biology and Medicine), so, in a way, he's my boss. And he tweets. At the conference, Pete will lead a session on Article-level metrics.
Bonnie Monteleone is staff (in the Department of Biochemistry) and a MALS Student at UNC Wilmington. She blogs on The Plastic Ocean and…
clock | December 9, 2009There 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:
White Shark Offshore Habitat: A Behavioral and Environmental Characterization of the Eastern Pacific Shared Offshore Foraging Area:
Although much is known about the behavior of white sharks in coastal…
clock | December 8, 2009Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli
clock | December 8, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
John Hogenesch is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Pharmacology where he studies a topic dear to my heart - biological clocks. I interviewed John a few months ago. At the conference, John will moderate the session on Science in the cloud and do a Demo of Social Networking and performance evaluation in scientific centers.…
clock | December 8, 2009The Severity of Pandemic H1N1 Influenza in the United States, from April to July 2009: A Bayesian Analysis:
Accurate measures of the severity of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza (pH1N1) are needed to assess the likely impact of an anticipated resurgence in the autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Severity has been difficult to measure because jurisdictions with large numbers of deaths and other severe outcomes have had too many cases to assess the total number with confidence. Also, detection of severe cases may be more likely, resulting in overestimation of the severity of an average case. We…
clock | December 8, 2009If you are in New York, you should see this:
Mysteries of the Congo: Exploring the World's Deepest River
FEATURING Ichthyologist Melanie Stiassny
WHAT SciCafe presents Mysteries of the Congo: Exploring the World's Deepest River, featuring Museum Ichthyologist Melanie Stiassny.
What strange new species lurk beneath? Join Museum Curator Melanie Stiassny, an ichthyologist who has been featured on The Colbert Report, as she answers this question and discusses her team's adventures and amazing discoveries in Africa's Congo River, the deepest in the world.
Surrounded by magnificent…
clock | December 7, 2009There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
- Bat Masterson
clock | December 7, 2009Scientia Pro Publica 17: The EPIC Edition is up at Mauka to Makai
Encephalon #79: the year-end edition! is up on The Mouse Trap
clock | December 7, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Miriam Goldstein is a Ph.D. graduate student in biological oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She recently led the Seaplex expedition to the North Pacific Gyre aka Garbage Patch. She blogs on Oyster's Garter, on DoubleX and the Seaplex blog and she tweets both as seaplex and as herself. I interviewed Miriam after the last year's conference. At…