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Hitchens Again

In Tuesday's post I commented that Christopher Hitchens is always reliable when writing about religion. As if to prove my point, the new issue of Free Inquiry turned up in my mailbox that night. It features an essay by Hitchens addressing the looming schism in the Anglican Church on the subject of allowing openly gay priests. Sadly, the article does not seem to be available online, so I have taken the liberty of transcribing its conclusion below the fold. Enjoy! Not having space to go on about all that - much as I would like to - I merely point out that the same dilemma results in…

Five items of interest to all of you

1) The number of people who care more about gun control than about the 2nd amendment has been greater for some time now, and it has shifted even further. This is according to a new poll by Pew Research Center: After Newtown, Modest Change in Opinion about Gun Control Most Say Assault Weapons Make Nation More Dangerous 2) NASA has a new design for their next generation space suit, and it looks familiar. Have a look. NASA's is the one on the left: 3) Facebook is going to start charging one dollar per message for certain messages. They say it is for your own good. In a statement posted…

Open Lab Notebook Software?

After talking to Cameron Neylon last week, I'm strongly considering setting up an online lab notebook for my research lab. Not so much for the philosophical reasons having to do with openness and the like-- as a practical matter, I still don't think my data will do anybody any good-- but for reasons of sheer convenience. Having the lab notebook on the web will allow me to keep tabs on what's going on during the next few months when I'm going to be spending a lot of time at home with SteelyKid. The one catch is, the system Neylon uses for his lab blog is optimized for, well, a biochemist--…

Why Oklahoma?

Im not gonna lie. We got a lot of shit to put up with in Oklahoma. Batshit insane politicians trying to ban scientists from the state, make federally funded research illegal, hold up HIV/AIDS funding for personal religious reasons, post medical identifiers of women who have abortions online... yeah, theyre just pretty much insane. So a question I get rather frequently is "Why the hell did you decide to go to grad school in Oklahoma??" Some might assume I only put up with 'Oklahoma crap' because I 'had to', which is certainly not the case. The University of Oklahoma is actually a really great…

Ant News Roundup 2/24/09

What's new in ant science this week? Lots. Atopomyrmex mocquerysi, South Africa Myrmecological News has posted a pair of studies online.  The first, by Martin Kenne et al, observe the natural history of one of Africa's most conspicuous yet chronically understudied arboreal ants, Atopomyrmex mocquerysi. The second, by Jim Wetterer, is part of a continuing series on the global spread of pest ants.  This installment targets Monomorium destructor. Onychomyrmex sp., Australia The Australian Journal of Entomology counters with a pair of its own ant studies.  In the first, Hiroki Miyata et…

PSA: Rice ADVANCE's workshop on negotiating the ideal faculty position

The email below announces this year's "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" workshop run by Rice University's ADVANCE program. I've heard great things about this workshop and they've run it for several years. In fact, I applied two years running and didn't get in, so it must be popular for a reason. Dear Colleague: A recent study of diversity in engineering notes that "the most accurate predictor of subsequent success for female undergraduates is the percentage of women among faculty members at their college [1]." At Rice University we are strongly committed to increasing the diversity of…

Run, do not walk, to register for ScienceOnline2010

Over the weekend, registration opened for ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual science communicators conference to be held January 14-17, 2010, in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. Please join us for this free (but donations are accepted) three-day event to explore science on the Web. Our goal is to bring together scientists, physicians, patients, educators, students, publishers, editors, bloggers, journalists, writers, web developers, programmers and others to discuss, demonstrate and debate online strategies and tools for doing science, publishing science, teaching…

Liberty University sure is skilled at sucking on the government teat

Wait—Liberty University gets half a billion dollars a year in federal aid? And they have almost 50,000 students? I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of minds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I looked a little further and discovered, though, that Liberty is actually a mid-sized private college with an on-campus enrollment of about 12,000 — they're sucking in all that money because they're deeply involved in that lucrative on-line 'education' game, where they shuffle students through a series of web pages and declare them S-M-R-T, smart. I was made…

When You Find Out You've Been Waterboarded

The writer, blogger, teacher, and, we're proud to say, World's Fair guest contributor Oronte Churm has a remarkable small essay over at The Education of Oronte Churm, called The Calculus of Military Service. He writes of his own past military experience and his own dawning awareness of the effects of military training on the subsequent lives of soldiers. That subject is vast, but in this well-researched small piece Churm brings it together with grace and clarity. When reading it I thought, this is either an example of (a) why and how blogging can actually be a legitimate literary and…

Debate Over Iraq Dominates News of Stem Cell Bill

The latest analysis of the week's top news agenda stories from the Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that despite the Dems best efforts to draw media and public attention to their roster of House bills, most notably stem cell research, coverage of the president's Iraq policy and national address completely dominated the media agenda: The debate over what to do next in Iraq thoroughly dominated the news landscape last week, according to the PEJ News Coverage Index. In the second week of the new year (January 7-12) Iraq policy filled 34% of the overall newshole and was the top story…

STEM CELL BILL PASSES THIRTY-SEVEN VOTES SHORT OF VETO OVERRIDE: Dems Likely to Stretch Out Debate, Make It as Politically Painful as Possible for Bush and Opponents

This afternoon, as expected, the House passed the stem cell funding bill, 253 to 174, falling well short of the 290 votes needed to overturn a Bush veto. Debate now moves to the Senate, where news reports peg support teetering right at the 2/3 majority needed in the chamber to override the anticipated presidential veto. So what are the options and where are things headed? A range of possibilities exist, with many floated this week in press reports: a) Supporters keep passing versions of the bill, and Bush keeps vetoing, until public pressure builds, and either House members shift their…

The Informationist: AM 2

I'm here at The Informationist: Collaboration between scientists and librarians to support informatics research at the Embassy Suites in DC. It's sponsored by Elsevier as part of their Research Connect series. (stream of consciousness) Annette Williams, Vanderbilt U Med Ctr - Integrating best evidence into patient care Essentially seemed to be 3 pieces. Within their order set something or other, their internally developed electronic med records some messaging and stuff, and consumer health site linked to icd-9 codes and lab test explanations. Dr. Medha Bhagwat, Bioinformatics Trainer, NIH…

New Book: "Flor y ciencia"

Kristin wrote, in a comment: Hey, although a search for blogs by Hispanic scientists is coming up empty, it looks like there's a new anthology by female Hispanic scientists and engineers! But you can't find it in the online bookstores. Looks like if you want a copy, you have to email NCantu AT malcs DOT net. I think we should give them a boost at getting the word out, don't you? And she gave us this website to check out. Here's a press release about one of the contributors to the book. Growing up in rural Los Angeles County in the 1960s, Cal State Northridge biology professor…

New book on junk science

There's a new book on junk science out. The following is from an announcement on the History and Philosophy of Science list. I haven't read the book myself. Although the term "junk science" has often been used by rightists in the U.S. to describe science that contradicts their interests, they have no ownership of the phrase. Since the twisting of science by various special interests has always been part of the history of science, I make (with your indulgence) announcement of the following new book and its complete Table of Contents: JUNK SCIENCE: How Politicians, Corporations, and Other…

What will be the next Sudoku?

The New York Times has a great article on the Japanese gaming company responsible for the Sudoku craze. The article is interesting, but be sure to check out the sidebar, where you can try three up-and-coming rivals to Sudoku. Personally I find Sudoku a little boring: After I figured out a "system" that allowed me to work out almost any puzzle, it just doesn't offer much challenge. So what's next? I really like Kakuro, which has actually been around for a while (I can even remember its U.S. version from the 1970s: "Cross-Sums"). You can try the sample puzzle on the New York Times page, but the…

George Will, the Washington Post, and the Death of Newspapers

My Science Progress column is now up: I try to set the George Will scandal in the broader context of what's happening in the media: We often hear that "technology" is what's killing newspapers--innovations like Craig's List have destroyed the in-print classified advertising market; people have stopped reading physical papers and turned to online headlines from news aggregators or blogs; and so on. But there are also matters of substance and standards, and if the Post editorial page can't even print correct facts about global warming (or correct already printed errors), then how to make the…

Psychological torture manual available online

The Manipulation of Human Behavior, a manual for psychological torture techniques written by leading psychologists and psychiatrists, is now available online. Published by John Wiley & Sons in 1961, the 323-page book was edited by Albert D. Biderman of the Bureau of Social Science Research and Herbert Zimmer, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, and funded by the U.S. government. The editors' introduction reads:  This book represents a critical examination of some of the conjectures about the application of scientific knowledge to the manipulation of…

Some Quantum Events

Summer school: We would like to inform you of the upcoming 10th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information & Research Workshop. Save the dates: July 17-30, 2010 Location: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC For more information, visit our website: qi10.ca Contact us: info [atatat] qi10.ca This summer school on quantum information marks the 10th anniversary of the highly renowned series. This year the emphasis will be on quantum algorithms and models of quantum computation, with particular attention to mathematical methods. This summer school also includes a research workshop…

Netflix for Paintings?

TurningArt is a startup that lets you make a queue of prints by various independent artists, try the prints out in your home or office, and exchange them as often as you like. After you've lived with the print long enough, you can trade it in for the original canvas, watercolor or collage; you just pay the balance of the original's cost (and your subscription fees count as credit toward the purchase price). Check out how it works, below the fold. . . Easy, right? (As an artist, my anxieties are greatly allayed by the fact that they're shipping prints around in those tubes, not the…

The Official Condom of New York

AIDS groups are complaining that Viagra promote unsafe sex, but I wonder what they'd think about these official NYC condoms? What seems like a funny concept is actually part of Mayor Bloomberg's initiative to reduce the spread of STDs by giving free condoms. And we *all* know that its the packaging that really matters in deciding on your choice of free condom! New York hands out 1.5 million free condoms each month, or about 18 million a year. Hundreds of organizations get free condoms from the city and distribute them at health clinics, bars, restaurants, nail salons, nightclubs and even…

Who's your favorite?

CK tells me that The Scientist magazine is taking an online poll about your favorite life science blogs. The link to place your vote is here. There's no legitimate way to bribe you for your vote without raising questions of impropriety, so instead I will attempt to coerce you with insidious logic and campaign strategery. Look at it this way... First of all,Craig's going to be a TV star sometime real soon, so if you vote for us now, you might get invited to his Monterey mansion with an infinity pool overlooking the Pacific. Next, ask yourself who tips you to the hot new personal submarines.…

Hungry For Plastic

CNN as an interesting article on plastic. We now consume around 100 million tons of plastic annually, compared to five million tons in the 1950s when American housewives were just discovering the wonders of Tupperware. To put that into perspective, one ton of plastic represents around 20,000 two-liter bottles of water or 120,000 carrier bags, according to the British Web site Waste Online. But don't think plastic is evil... According to PlasticsResource.com, an educational Web site run by the American Chemistry Council, people have benefited from plastics. Using recycled plastic as a…

John Allen Paulos on the Lancet study

John Allen Paulos writes about Iraqi war deaths: Another figure in the news recently has been the number of Iraqis killed in the war. President Bush mentioned last month that in addition to the more than 2,100 American soldiers killed so far in Iraq, that there were approximately 30,000 Iraqis killed. He was likely referring to the approximate figure put out by Iraq Body Count, a group of primarily British researchers who use online Western media reports to compile an extensive list of Iraqi civilians killed. The organization checks the names and associated details of those killed. It…

A Casino for Conservation?

What if you could gamble for a good cause? Why not build a casino where the profits go to conservation? The idea came to me last night while watching a BBC documentary on gambling with Louis Theroux (see preview below). The segment features a woman who has lost $4 million over the last 7 years (don't worry, she says she had fun doing it) and a Canadian mattress man who lost somewhere over $250,000 in one weekend. Imagine if these people could lose their money and know that it ultimately wound up going toward a good cause rather than in the pockets of already rich casino owners? Yes, some…

Holiday Cheer: Google Earth and Whitacre's Virtual Choir

As an antidote to recent postings about Christmas on Pharyngula, which have nothing to do with science or holiday cheer, I would like to share with you a wonderful innovative example of bridging science and technology with the arts: the Virtual Choir. Composer Eric Whitacre embarked upon an experiment in online social media: he invited singers to post their performances on YouTube and then blended them into a single, integrated performance using Google Earth. According to his website, the Virtual Choir - "Featuring 185 voices from over 15 countries worldwide, The Virtual Choir began as a…

I will not work your show for free!

I was browsing through some old notes when I found this - I think I wrote it in sheer exasperation after yet another email from a production company demanding I work for nothing because, gee whiz, everyone wants to be in TV, right?  I think this will reverberate with anyone who's freelanced for a living.  Apologies to Dr Seuss.   I will not work your show for free! -- I will not work your show for free! I will not be your radio host I will not write you a blog post I will not pen a sharp riposte I will not keep readers engrossed I will not get your brand exposed. I will not write a trial…

So I Was Interviewed...

...For a feature article in this week's Nature on how scientists go about developing and managing online personas. You can check out the article - for free - here. It's a good article, and you'll probably recognize some other familiar faces (e-faces? blog-faces?) in it as well. While the interview, which I did back in the beginning of February, was enjoyable, I fear that my quotation in this article is slightly out of context. To be fair, I don't remember the exact course of the conversation I had with the writer - but here, I'll use my blog to make clear what I meant and ground my statement…

The Implementation of Molecular Evolution for the Masses

A couple of years ago, there was talk in the bioblogosphere about getting the general public interested in bioinformatics and molecular evolution: Amateur bioinformatics? Lowering the Ivory Tower with Molecular Evolution Molecular Evolution for the Masses The idea was inspired by the findings of armchair astronomers -- people who have no professional training, but make contributions to astronomy via their stargazing hobbies. With so much data available in publicly accessible databases, there's no reason we can't motivate armchair biologists to start mining for interesting results. But how…

The Biodiversity Crisis and Open Access Journals

Currently a biodiversity crisis is underway, which many have termed the sixth extinction. E.O. Wilson in 1993 suggested 30,000 species extinctions occur per year, roughly three per hour. How many species are there on earth? That is a tough nut to crack. An extremely conservative estimate would be 3-5 million, but it's likely closer to 30-50 million. In the deep sea there may be as many as 10 million. The other side of this crisis reflects our lack of knowledge of biodiversity on earth. Less than 2 million species have been described. By E.O.'s estimate we are losing species faster than…

Grabbing eyeballs with a blog

Nick Denton is one of those interesting fellows in online media: my first impression was that he runs gossipy sites and therefore must be shallow, but then you discover that he's actually got very finely tuned antennae to what people want to read…and if it's gossip, then so be it. But at the same time there are some real insights into what draws and keeps the attention of those fickle creatures called human beings. This routine memo from Denton summarizing the popular stories of the month is wonderfully revealing, and a good lesson for anyone writing on the web. Kevin Purdy's highly…

A conversation on the way to class.

Do other bloggers ever stalk you in real life? OK, maybe it doesn't count if (1) it's someone you know from real life (and I think even an online course counts as real life here), and (2) it's someone who actually has business to transact in the building in which you run into her. Besides, Julie's a pretty cool blogger by whom to be stalked. Anyway, Julie was kind enough to chat with me as I walked to class, and something like the following exchange took place: J.M.: So how's that ethics in science class of yours going. Dr. F-R: Love! The students are really sharp and they seem really…

Israeli Jews think that Judaism is closer to Christianity

In light of my previous comments on Judeo-Christianity, here is a interesting survey about Israeli Jewish views of other religions, in particular Christianity. Some results: * 41% believe that Christianity is closest religion to Judaism * 32% believe than Islam is closest religion to Judaism * 50% agreed that Jerusalem was central to the Christian faith * 75% percent believe the state should not allow Christian organizations to purchase land to construct new churches in the city (the state or state-sanctioned organizations own most land in Israel) * 80% of secular Jews believe it is…

Climate & the Out of Africa migration(s)

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa: The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4 vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived dust in northwest Africa reveals three periods during the past 192,000 years when the central Sahara/Sahel contained C3 plants (likely trees), indicating substantially wetter conditions than at present. Our data suggest that variability in the strength of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a main control on vegetation…

So what was that mysterious black gracile felid?

Thanks to everyone who offered an opinion and submitted their thoughts on that photo - and there were no silly answers, because I feel the real answer was not necessarily easy. As some of you correctly determined, the cat was actually not an unfamiliar or obscure species - just the opposite - it's just that it represented a body shape and/or geographical variant of this species that we're not used to seeing... The proportionally long tail shows that this can't be a small cat like a golden cat; it's difficult to be sure from the photo, but the cat also looks much larger than a golden cat […

Tactics and tropes of the antivaccine movement

I've been an observer and student of the antivaccine movement for nearly a decade now, although my intensive education began almost seven years ago, in early 2005, not long after I started blogging. It was then that I first encountered several "luminaries" of the antivaccine movement both throughout the blogosphere and sometimes even commenting on my blog itself. I'm talking about "luminaries" such as J.B. Handley, who is the founder of Generation Rescue and was its leader and main spokesperson; that is, until he managed to recruit spokesmodel Jenny McCarthy to be its public face, and Dr. Jay…

My Picks From ScienceDaily (Neuro edition)

Lots of interesting Neuro/Behavioral stuff came out lately, some really cool, some questionable...so you let me know what you think: Brain's White Matter: More 'Talkative' Than Once Thought: Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered to their surprise that nerves in the mammalian brain's white matter do more than just ferry information between different brain regions, but in fact process information the way gray matter cells do. The discovery in mouse cells, outlined in the March issue of Nature Neuroscience, shows that brain cells "talk" with each other in more ways than previously thought. "…

Are women getting better looking?

Update: The author of the paper clears up confusions. Update: Here's the paper. End Update The British media is abuzz with another paper from Satoshi Kanazawa, the evolutionary psychologist who has great marketing savvy. I can't find the study online anyway, so here is the Times Online: In a study released last week, Markus Jokela, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, found beautiful women had up to 16% more children than their plainer counterparts. He used data gathered in America, in which 1,244 women and 997 men were followed through four decades of life. Their attractiveness was…

Around the Web: Citation cartels, Rooms full of elephants, Doing better and more

The Emergence of a Citation Cartel Ask the Chefs: "What's the Biggest Elephant in the Room?" Review: "How Economics Shapes Science," by Paula Stephan Interview with Paula Stephan -- Economics, Science, and Doing Better Maxing out the curve on ebook adoption Everything you need to know about today's e-book lawsuit in one post Are Apps The Future of Book Publishing? UKSG conference: Libraries: enacting change (libraries as leaders in altmetrics) The BRIGHT Future of Libraries - a Rant Culture Change for Learning E-Books: What Next? Authors use Kickstarter to begin new publishing company Dear…

NC blogging

Anton notes that Dave Winer is advising John Edwards to start a program to teach North Carolinians to blog. Er, Dave, you've been here several times at various bloggercons. And the bloggercons were here because this is one of the Big Centers of blogging in the country. Why should John Edwards start doing something that is already done by people who know what to do and how to go about it and are successful at it as humanely possible? John Edwards is using the new communications technologies better than any politician - he is light years ahead of the competition. He sits in the hotebed of…

But do they stop to ask for directions?

Sex And Prenatal Hormone Exposure Affect Cognitive Performance: Yerkes researchers are using their findings to better understand sex differences in cognitive performance, which may lead to increased understanding of the difference in neuropsychological disorders men and women experience. In one of the first research studies to assess sex differences in cognitive performance in nonhuman primates, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center have found the tendency to use landmarks for navigation is typical only of females. This finding, which corroborates findings in rodents and…

Happy blogiversary to me!

I almost forgot! It's my blogiversary! On May 21st of 2007, I opened my Wordpress blog after keeping a few notes on Blogger, which I didn't love. I started out blogging about the abomination that is Conservapedia, added my own medical musings that I had collected over the years, and then branched out into the world of medical science, skepticism, and whatever else I wanted to do. In the 10 months I was at Wordpress, I published 332 posts. In my first full month online, I had 381 visits. In August of 2007, I had almost 22,000 page views. In March of this year, the Hoofnagle brothers…

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Via Peter Suber, there is now something new - PLoL, or, Public Library of Law: Searching the Web is easy. Why should searching the law be any different? That's why Fastcase has created the Public Library of Law -- to make it easy to find the law online. PLoL is the largest free law library in the world, because we assemble law available for free scattered across many different sites -- all in one place. PLoL is the best starting place to find law on the Web. It's just like PLoS, but the material is law, not science (and the two are not affiliated with each other in any way, just thinking in…

David Cohn on Science Journalism and Web 2.0

David writes: Community is no longer a dirty or scary word. Sciam, Seed, in the US, Germany and all over the world. Online communities are becoming understood and a valued commodity. When Google bought YouTube I said the price they payed wasn't for the technology (they already had Google Video) what they bought was the community. News organizations realize that creating niche communities is a way to stay relevant to advertisers and readers. And science journalism, which de-facto covers a "boring" subject to lots of people, can only benefit by creating a vibrant community of people who have a…

ScienceOnline2010 - Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web (video) - Part 7

Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web - Ed Yong, Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, and David Dobbs Saturday, January 16, 10:15 - 11:20am Description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids - Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of science journalism in the online world. Are blogs and mainstream media the bitter rivals that stereotypes would have us believe, or do the two sides have common threads and complementary strengths? How will the tools of the Internet change the art of reporting? How will the ongoing changes strengthen…

ScienceOnline2010 - Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web (video) - Part 6

Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web - Ed Yong, Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, and David Dobbs Saturday, January 16, 10:15 - 11:20am Description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids - Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of science journalism in the online world. Are blogs and mainstream media the bitter rivals that stereotypes would have us believe, or do the two sides have common threads and complementary strengths? How will the tools of the Internet change the art of reporting? How will the ongoing changes strengthen…

ScienceOnline2010 - Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web (video) - Part 5

Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web - Ed Yong, Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, and David Dobbs Saturday, January 16, 10:15 - 11:20am Description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids - Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of science journalism in the online world. Are blogs and mainstream media the bitter rivals that stereotypes would have us believe, or do the two sides have common threads and complementary strengths? How will the tools of the Internet change the art of reporting? How will the ongoing changes strengthen…

ScienceOnline2010 - Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web (video) - Part 4

Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web - Ed Yong, Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, and David Dobbs Saturday, January 16, 10:15 - 11:20am Description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids - Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of science journalism in the online world. Are blogs and mainstream media the bitter rivals that stereotypes would have us believe, or do the two sides have common threads and complementary strengths? How will the tools of the Internet change the art of reporting? How will the ongoing changes strengthen…

ScienceOnline2010 - Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web (video) - Part 3

Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web - Ed Yong, Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, and David Dobbs Saturday, January 16, 10:15 - 11:20am Description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids - Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of science journalism in the online world. Are blogs and mainstream media the bitter rivals that stereotypes would have us believe, or do the two sides have common threads and complementary strengths? How will the tools of the Internet change the art of reporting? How will the ongoing changes strengthen…

ScienceOnline2010 - Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web (video) - Part 2

Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web - Ed Yong, Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, and David Dobbs Saturday, January 16, 10:15 - 11:20am Description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids - Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of science journalism in the online world. Are blogs and mainstream media the bitter rivals that stereotypes would have us believe, or do the two sides have common threads and complementary strengths? How will the tools of the Internet change the art of reporting? How will the ongoing changes strengthen…

ScienceOnline2010 - Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web (video) - Part 1

Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web - Ed Yong, Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, and David Dobbs Saturday, January 16, 10:15 - 11:20am Description: Our panel of journalist-blogger hybrids - Carl Zimmer, John Timmer, Ed Yimmer Yong, and David Dobbs- will discuss and debate the future of science journalism in the online world. Are blogs and mainstream media the bitter rivals that stereotypes would have us believe, or do the two sides have common threads and complementary strengths? How will the tools of the Internet change the art of reporting? How will the ongoing changes strengthen…