clock | November 29, 2009The same friend in Equatorial Guinea whose picture of a lightning I posted yesterday also took this picture. This spider lives on his desk. He waited several days for the spider to catch a fly and then took this picture:
Anyone venture to ID the species of the spider and/or the fly?
clock | November 29, 2009
The nicest post about ScienceOnline2010 to date was penned yesterday by Arikia Millikan, the former Overlord of Seed Scienceblogs.com (the image above is by her as well).
At the conference, Arikia will co-moderate the session on Web Science and I already introduced her here.
In her awesome post she compared the meeting to the Bonnaroo concerts. w00t! She writes:
For those on the forefront of the development of the Web, the World Wide Web conference was an event that educated, inspired and forged partnerships by connecting people whose paths would otherwise never cross…
clock | November 28, 2009Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
clock | November 28, 2009The application deadline for the NESCent blogging competition and travel award to ScienceOnline2010 is December 1, 2009. So hurry up - see the contest conditions and entries so far and meet the judges.
So, hurry up. Write (or choose an existing) post in the area of evolutionary biology and send it in. Two lucky winners will get travel grants to ScienceOnline2010. Yes, we are full, and there are 101 people on the waiting list. But the two NESCent winners have their spots saved just for them!
clock | November 28, 2009My friend (I was the Best Man at his wedding, back in the 80s) is in Equatorial Guinea and the other day he took this dramatic photograph of a lightning:
clock | November 28, 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…
clock | November 28, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 2 - 3:05pm:
A. Citizen Science and Students - Sandra Porter, Tara Richerson (science_goddess), and Antony Williams
Description: Students are a great resource for projects that require large numbers of volunteers. We will discuss examples of projects that combine student learning with authentic research and the power of blogs to connect students with projects. Discuss here.
B. Medicine 2.0 and Science 2.0--where do they intersect? - Walter Jessen
Description: Medicine 2.0…
clock | November 27, 2009The time comes when you realize that you haven't only been specializing in something - something has been specializing in you.
- Arthur Miller
clock | November 27, 2009
Explained here. Critiques in the comments are (mostly) valid, but for a first effort at using this kind of visualization technique, I'd say it's pretty impressive.
clock | November 27, 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.
Beatrice Lugger is a freelance science journalist and consultant, one of the founders of ScienceBlogs Germany and a twitterer. At the conference, Beatrice will co-moderate the session on Science online talks between generations.
Danica Radovanovic is a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute, a blogger and a twitterer. I interviewed her a couple of months ago -…
clock | November 27, 2009Quantification of Circadian Rhythms in Single Cells:
Earth's 24-h-rotation around its axis is mirrored in the circadian clock that resides within each of our cells, controlling expression of ~10% of all genes. The circadian clock is constructed as a negative feedback loop, in which clock proteins inhibit their own synthesis. During the last decade, a picture has emerged in which each cell is a self-sustained circadian oscillator that runs even without synchronizing cues. Here, we investigated state-of-the-art single-cell bioluminescence recordings of clock gene expression. It turns out that…
clock | November 26, 2009So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of struggle are over,' I should be able to say. 'I can look back now and tell myself I don't have a single regret.' But I do. Many.
- Arthur Marx
clock | November 26, 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…
clock | November 26, 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.
Ken Liu is the V.P. for Business Development at SciVee, Inc and he will do a demo of SciVee.tv at the conference.
Allyson Bennett is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She blogs on Speaking of Research.
Paolo Mangiafico is the Director of Digital Information Strategy at the Duke University…
clock | November 26, 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:
Structures of KaiC Circadian Clock Mutant Proteins: A New Phosphorylation Site at T426 and Mechanisms of Kinase, ATPase and Phosphatase:
The circadian clock of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus can…
clock | November 25, 2009There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
clock | November 25, 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…
clock | November 25, 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.
Erin Johnson is the Seed Overlord, running the Scienceblogs.com site, a.k.a. herding cats. She blogs on Page 3.14 and tweets as Scienceblogs.
Dave Munger is a writer. He blogs on Cognitive Daily and Word Munger. Dave is the founder of ResearchBlogging.org (where he also runs the blog) and he tweets (also here). At the conference, Dave will run a workshop Blogging 102…
clock | November 25, 2009There are 25 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:
The Molecular Ecology of the Extinct New Zealand Huia:
The extinct Huia (Heteralocha acutirostris) of New Zealand represents the most extreme example of beak dimorphism known in birds. We used a combination…