clock | November 10, 2009Next Monday at NESCent:
When: Monday November 16, 2009, 10-11:30am
Where: NESCent, 2024 W. Main St., Durham, NC 27705, Erwin Mill Bldg, Suite A103
Directions: http://www.nescent.org/about/directions.php
What do public policy and economics have to do with evolutionary theory? A lot, say participants in an upcoming meeting at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, NC.
Nearly 30 scholars, policymakers, and entrepreneurs from both the academic and the business worlds will gather at the NESCent headquarters November 13-16, 2009. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how…
clock | November 10, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Busting Marine Myths: Sharks DO Get Cancer!
Who gave Tierney a column!? The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
ORGASM INC., documentary reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women.
Open Lab PSA
Urban Farming Grows Food and Nourishes Minds, Social Justice
32…
clock | November 10, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 470 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are 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):
10 days of science: Astronomical art: Representing Planet Earth
2020 Science: Hooked on science - ten things that inspired me to become a scientist
A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a…
clock | November 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.
Jonathan Eisen is a Professor at UC Davis, Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology, author of the Evolution textbook, a blogger and a twitterer. At the conference, Jonathan will lead the session "Open Access Publishing and Freeing the Scientific Literature (or Why Freedom is about more than just not paying for things)".
Russ Williams is the Executive Director of the…
clock | November 10, 2009Let's take a look at recent papers in PLoS ONE and other PLoS journals. 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:
Chemically-Mediated Roostmate Recognition and Roost Selection by Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats (Tadarida brasiliensis):
The Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is an…
clock | November 9, 2009If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.
- Anselm Feuerbach
clock | November 9, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Oceanophilia: The Neuroscience of Emotion and the Ocean
But Does Twittering Really Sell Books?
Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
Most popular "Best of" Twitter lists are hopelessly male. So take a look at the Best Women on Twitter lists: One, Two and Three: eclectic, excellent, exciting - that is ~1300 women…
clock | November 9, 2009The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Christian Casper to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background?
My name is Christian Casper, and I recently finished a Ph.D. at North Carolina State University, in their program in…
clock | November 9, 2009As 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.
Arikia Millikan is the fomer scienceblogs.com Overlord, a very tech and Web savvy blogger, writter and twitterer (and again). She is currently on a super-secret mission that gets her traveling around the country interviewing some fascinating people. You should read her recent interview here. At the Conference, Arikia will co-moderate (with Nate Silver) the session "…
clock | November 8, 2009Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
- Ansel Adams
clock | November 8, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad
Download PLoS Article Level Metrics from Infochimps.org
Slow Science gets the Shaft - Part I
Internet Antichrist
Why did our species survive the Neanderthals? and Were Neanderthals our enemies or lovers?
The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place
DPAC first-year numbers…
clock | November 8, 2009You can listen to the Friday episode of Skeptically Speaking here. I am at the beginning, first 10 minutes or so, explaining what ScienceOnline2010 is all about. But the rest of the show with Paul Ingraham is very interesting as well.
clock | November 8, 2009
As you know, the Program is fully set now. There is a lot of stuff there! So, to help you out, I will post an occasional sample of sessions, organized by time - when they will occur during the conference.
So today, I'll start at the beginning, highlighting session that will happen on Saturday, January 16th, at 9:00-10:05am. Letters A-E denote rooms. You will notice that each session has its own page where you are welcome to post questions and commentary.
A. From Blog to Book: Using Blogs and Social Networks to Develop Your Professional Writing - Tom Levenson, Brian Switek and Rebecca…
clock | November 7, 2009That which we are, we are.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
made weak by time and fate.
But strong in will,
to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yeild.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
clock | November 7, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
NYC subway system on Google Maps
Did you know that 'Dance Me to the End of Love' was inspired by Holocaust?
Deep thinkers: The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be
26 Scientific Products: From Scientific Cooking Kits to Experimental Lighting
Seriously cool font created out of bacteria wins prize
Best Hand…
clock | November 7, 2009
Ignite-style talks are very, very energetic. They last 5 minutes each and the slideshow is set to automatically change slides every 15 seconds. Thus, one cannot be slow or go over time. These kinds of talks can be very funny, yet also very powerful. At ScienceOnline2010, we will have an Ignite session on Saturday night, at the Radisson Hotel during the banquet/dinner. Here is the lineup of speakers and topics:
"Why Triangle is Better than Silicon Valley" - Wayne Sutton
"My "Little Black Book" of Scientists I Love" - Joanne Manaster
"Crowdsourced Chemistry - Why Online Chemistry Data Needs…
clock | November 6, 2009Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
- Anne Sullivan
clock | November 6, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Scientwists Twitter List by David Bradley on Listorious
FLOTUS: Elevating the social status of nerds everywhere
An open letter to the medical community - Some passionate debate about personal genomics!
The Genomic Ark: 10,000 vertebrate genomes
Beautiful electron microscopic and computer modelling images from the new book by…
clock | November 6, 2009Four Stone Hearth #79 is up on Anthropology.net
Friday Ark #268 is up on Modulator
clock | November 6, 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.
Sol Lederman is the Consultant for US Dept of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a blogger. He also tweets for the Department. I interviewed Sol earlier this year, after his session at ScienceOnline'09. At the next conference, Sol will lead a workshop "Make your own social networking site with Drupal".
Chris Nicolini is…