clock | December 2, 2009Berry Go Round #22 is up on Seeds Aside
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 10 are up at Health Technology News
The 42nd edition of the Festival of the Trees is up at Via Negativa
clock | December 2, 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.
Carl Zimmer is a science writer and journalist, a New York Times science writer, author of numerous books on biology and evolution, a prominent blogger and twitterer. At the conference, Carl will co-moderate the session Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web.
Tara Richerson is a science teacher, working in the Office of the Superintendent for Public…
clock | December 2, 2009There are 31 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:
High-Pitched Notes during Vocal Contests Signal Genetic Diversity in Ocellated Antbirds:
Animals use honest signals to assess the quality of competitors during aggressive interactions. Current theory…
clock | December 1, 2009Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
- Baltasar Gracian
clock | December 1, 2009
The Deadline has passed!
There are a total of over 700 submissions for OpenLab 2009. Thank you all for submitting your and other people's blog posts. I at least opened every one of them, and already read many of them and the overall quality looks very high.
SciCurious is ready (here is her post), judges are ready, and the judging process is about to begin.
And while you are waiting for results, you can read all the submitted entries right here!
And once you are done reading them all, you can go back to the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions and read them as well.
And keep checking in every now…
clock | December 1, 2009
Check out this etsy shop - wolves, lions, horses, owls. Great stuff, especially for someone that young.
clock | December 1, 2009I posted 143 times in November.
This was a busy month, getting to the end of the submission period for Open Lab 2009 and getting ready for ScienceOnline2010, so most of the posts had something to do with one of those two topics.
And I posted quite a few good videos and a couple of cool photographs. I decided that I did Tweetlinks long enough for everyone to get it that I post a lot of cool links there, so if interested, you know where to find me on Twitter.
But I did blog about science as well - in this long post I covered several science-related events I attended and discussed the science I…
clock | December 1, 2009You can follow the event virtually in Second Life - just click here and teleport.
clock | December 1, 2009
While the rest of the Program has been set for more than a month now, we have not yet announced who the Friday night Keynote Speaker will be at ScienceOnline2010. But now that all the negotiations have been done, we can do so. It is my pleasure to announce that we will have an exciting - and somewhat controversial - speaker that day - Michael Specter.
Michael Specter has started out in journalism at The Washington Post where he was, among else, the national science reporter and later their New York City bureau chief. He later moved to the Times and was the co-chief of the Times Moscow…
clock | December 1, 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.
Glendon Mellow is a freelance artist-illustrator, currently a student at York University. He blogs at The Flying Trilobite and tweets. I interviewed Glendon earlier this year. At the conference, he will co-moderate the session on Art and Science: Visual Metaphors and lead a workshop where he'll teach how to Paint your blog images using a digital tablet.
Annie Crawley…
clock | December 1, 2009There are 30 new articles in PLoS ONE published yesterday and another 23 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:
Systematic Differences in Impact across Publication Tracks at PNAS:
Citation data can be used to evaluate the editorial policies and procedures of scientific journals.…
clock | November 30, 2009Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
- Augustine of Hippo
clock | November 30, 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.
Stephanie Zvan is a science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. She blogs on Almost Diamonds and Quiche Moraine and tweets. I interviewed Stephanie on the blog, and Stephanie interviewed me on the radio. At the conference, she will co-moderate the session on Trust and Critical Thinking.
Bill Hooker is a molecular/cellular biologist and an Open Access evangelist.…
clock | November 30, 2009
Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST!
That is roughly 37 hours to go.
The submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date are under the fold. On December 2nd, I'll put them all above the fold for all to see all the submissions. And then SciCurious and a large gang of judges will start sorting them all out and judging them until only 50 essays, one poem and one cartoon remain.
Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays). Realize that nobody knows your archives as well as you…
clock | November 30, 2009Change of Shift - Thanksgiving Edition - is up on Emergiblog
Carnival of the Liberals #99 is up on Liberal England
Friday Ark #271 is up on Modulator
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 9 are up on How To Cope With Pain
clock | November 30, 2009TECHIE TUESDAY
"Celebration of Life"
Research Triangle Global Health Excellence & World AIDS Day
Date: December 1, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: RTP Headquarters - 12 Davis Drive
Catering By: Nantucket Café & Neomonde
Did you know the Triangle region is a center of excellence in global health?
Help celebrate World AIDS Day and find out how RTP companies and stakeholders are making an impact on HIV/AIDS and other important global health concerns.
Global health organizations in the Park are helping people live longer, more productive lives by working to address HIV/AIDS and…
clock | November 29, 2009Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Francois Auguste Rene Rodin
clock | November 29, 2009
Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST!
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
Make sure that the submitted posts are possible (and relatively easy) to convert into print. Posts that rely too much on video, audio, color photographs, copyrighted images, or multitudes of links just won't do.
10 days of science: Astronomical…