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A lot of Twitter energy was soaked up Friday afternoon by a half stupid article by Virginia Heffernan at the New York Times. Sparked by Sodamageddon, she takes a look at ScienceBlogs for the first time, and doesn't like what she sees:
Hammering away at an ideology, substituting stridency for…
And thank you to everyone who reads, comments, and links to the blog. I don't have time to respond to everything, but I do read it all eventually (I have science stuff to do....). Now back to our regularly scheduled ranting.
Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years'…
Last week, I gave my evangelical talk about science blogging to the Physics department at Wright State, and also a lot of education students who came to the talk (which made a nice change in the sort of questions I got). It's basically this talk that I gave at Cornell a couple of years ago, with a…
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Talks, conferences, workshops, trips overseas, grant applications...
and finding a new position.
Grants! Pah! You just have to write them, I get to crush evaluate them.
Surely you won't need a grant, you'll be able to live off the earnings from your book.
Bob
Ah, right Bob. Sure I will. Why didn't I think of that?
<sotto voce>Sob!</sotto voce>
Hmmm. Perhaps you need to spice it up a bit. Remove the serious arguments, through in a few gratuitous insults ("Mallet's ideas were so bad that I had to adopt an incontinent dog, just so the paper would be useful for something") and give it a snappier title - "Mayrless"?
Then you just need to decide what the front cover will look like.
Bob
I will use that insult sometime. Not in the book though...
Then you just need to decide what the front cover will look like.
Oh thank you very much -- now I've got this image of Wilkins (the real one, not the albino gorilla avatar) wearing a low-cut, high-hem black dress AND a blond wig, stuck in my mind.
That's actually physically painful to contemplate.
Ha! Now I just have to pose for it. It's not the first time I've been in a low cut high hem black dress. 'Course, I had a beard then too...