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Phlogiston

One of the nice benefits of hosting ScienceOnline conferences is that I sometimes get presents. The one that I find totally fascinating that I got this year is the 2009 issue of Phlogiston, the Journal of History of Science published once a year in Serbian language - print only (the journal does not even have a homepage). I got this issue from Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic who came all the way from Serbia to do a session on challenges to Open Access in developing countries together with her friend and colleague Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove. The 2009 issue of Phlogiston is dedicated to Darwin and the…

Volunteering to help girls with the National Girls Collaborative Project

The National Girls Collaborative Project, as you might guess from the title, focuses on helping girls and engaging girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (aka "STEM"). photos used with permission from NGCP Quoting from the NGCP website, (the emphasis is mine): Numerous programs and initiatives seek to create gender equity in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have been implemented only to lose effectiveness or fade away. Had these programs had the benefit of collaboration with other girl-serving projects, organizations and institutions, and…

2014 Castle Excavation Reports

Things are coming together with the post-excavation work for last summer's castle investigations so I'm putting some stuff on-line here. I've submitted a paper detailing the main results to a proceedings volume for the Castella Maris Baltici symposium in Lodz back in May. There are no illustrations in the file, but you'll find all you need here on the blog in various entries tagged ”Castles”. Osteologist Rudolf Gustavsson has completed his reports on the bones from the two sites (Landsjö – Stensö). For the Dear Reader who doesn't read Swedish, a short summary of Rudolf's results is in order…

More health news from Canada

For your Saturday morning reading pleasure, here are two articles following up on my dichloroacetate (DCA) and bogus internet pharmacy death posts this week. Each was recommended by my clandestine operative from the Great White North, PharmCanuck: Canadian cancer society warns of untested drug Heather Logan, the director of cancer control policy at the society who trained as a nurse, has worked with people fighting to prolong their lives. Logan said she sympathizes with those who are buying the drug and mixing it at home as a last resort, but stresses there are serious safety concerns. "The…

Bibliography Tool: Zotero

This is good.   href="http://www.getfirefox.net/">Firefox now has an extension that makes it simple to store all your bibliographic information from online research.   It is at release candidate 3 stage now, well-developed and fully functional.  It is called href="http://www.zotero.org/" rel="tag">Zotero.  It is bundled with the " href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/campus/">Campus Edition" (the best thing since ramen noodles) of Firefox, but it can be installed easily into any version on Linux, OS X, or even Windows machines. From an article at href="http://www.…

Another NNB Pub Night

Unfortunately I'll be out of town, but I encourage anyone in the Boston area to go. Here's the latest from Corie: Hi everyone, The new year is well underway so it's time for another one of the famous Nature Network Boston pub nights! (For those of you new to NNB (http://network.nature.com/boston), the networking website for Boston scientists, we host monthly informal gatherings at a local pub for Boston-area scientists to meet, chat, and have a drink. We believe in online networking, but we also believe in old-fashion facetime...with a bit of alcohol too.) When: Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 6:…

Eleven (sand)pipers (sand)piping.

My better half and I were able to join friends on a beach walk yesterday. We hiked a little more than five miles from Goleta to Santa Barbara, and along the way we saw at least eleven sandpipers. At least, I think the birds we saw were sandpipers. Perhaps those of you who are birders can help with the identifications. All of the birds we were lumping in the category of sandpipers were wading along the shoreline and periodically poking their beaks in the sand, presumably to harvest and eat some tasty morsels. However, while these birds all looked pretty similar from a distance, on closer…

Alvin has Pilots?

I don't know if you guys caught the comment below from Bruce Strickrott, Chief Pilot of the DSV Alvin. We have been trying to get this guy to write something for Deep Sea News for about a year now. Why? Because Alvin pilots Bruce, Anthony, Gavin, Pat, and Duncan (among others) have gone where no humans have gone before, time and time again. And that's BEFORE they get to work. They are also hilarious fun to hang out with. We're going to be writing lots more about the new Alvin replacement in the coming months. Hopefully Bruce and the guys will chip in with stories from "Nine North" and other…

Tasmanian Tiger mtDNA sequenced?

More ancient DNA, Hair Of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes Of Extinct Species: All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition of Genome Research. The research marks the first successful sequencing of genes from this carnivorous marsupial, which looked like a large tiger-striped dog and became extinct in 1936. ... ... "I want to learn as much as I can about why large mammals become extinct because all my friends are large mammals,"…

The ICR Master's of Creation Research: An On Line Teaching Degree

The Texas Based Institute for Creation Research would offer an online degree in Science Education. Approved by a State Advisory Board yesterday, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will consider the degree in January. Could this be why there has been a shakeup at the Texas Higher Education department? The prospect of the ICR offering a degree is at the same time chilling and satisfying. Accroding to NCSE Director Eugenie Scott: They teach distorted science ... Any student coming out from the ICR with a degree in science would not be competent to teach in Texas public schools…

Some more info on basketballs

You know I have trouble letting stuff go, right? I am still thinking about these crazy long basketball shots. Here are some more thoughts. Really, there are two things I am interested in. First, commenter Scott Post suggests that the drag coefficient might be around 0.25 instead of 0.5. I don't know. For the discussion before, it doesn't really matter. My point was to see a numerical model for a falling ball would be similar to the time and distance from the video. Changing the drag coefficient to 0.25 gives values that are still close to the video. So, I still think the video is real…

Palin and the Rise of the Political Televangelist

Last week, The AP described what living the life of Palin is like: Among the perks laid out in the contract, the former Alaska governor will fly first class from Anchorage to California - if she flies commercial. If not, "the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger ...," the contract specifies. Palin also must be provided with a suite and two single rooms in a deluxe hotel near the campus in Turlock in the Central Valley. During her speech, her lectern must be stocked with two water bottles and bendable straws. I like bendy straws too! People seem shocked that she's earning so much…

Regulating peanut butter (and lots more): good for business

The financial industry (what's left of it) now knows what the food industry is learning (or never learned; take your pick). Effective regulation is good for business. Or rather, poor regulation is (very) bad for business. Latest exhibit: the gigantic recall of peanut products (international in scope: here's a long list of newly recalled Canadian products) after a relatively modest player (less than 1% of peanut products in US) ran a sloppy operation (for years), wasn't caught and now is dragging down everyone: The economic wallop from a salmonella outbreak in peanut products continues to…

Bushehr Installed

Iran claims Bushehr nuclear power station is "logistically complete" That means it is ready to be loaded with fuel and ought to be just a turn-key from being operational. Russia is reportedly holding back fuel for 2 months, pending UN process. Iran claims it has paid Russia in full and wants the fuel delivered now. Iran is also noting that Russia's delay validated its push to do its own uranium enrichment, with some justification, although it is a bit of a catch-22. Further, Iran announced its intent to tender for another power station, 2GW this time. There are conflicting reports about…

seizure of assets

there was a legal case in Iceland a few years ago, it was an convoluted property rights case, can't remember the details, but it involved who had ownership when there was delivery but no payment nor explicit assumption of ownership and then a third party intercedes anyway, the interesting thing about the case, is that it was decided on precedent case law, from a case from about 1000 years earlier having a continuous constitutional and common law with an extended history can be quite enabling the Vikings were mostly traders, rather than raiders, and property rights were quite important,…

Planktos

A weird one. Planktos is a for-profit company that appears to intend to sequestrate CO2 by causing algal blooms. Anyone with more info on this is invited to comment. And they will sell you CO2 offsets. For example: The average international flight is 9-20 hours long and produces 2 tons of CO2 per passenger. 4 tons of CO2 equivalents will be retired on your behalf to negate 100% of your carbon footprint for this return flight is only $20. How can the average flight be 9-20 hours long and yet produce exactly 2 tons? But more importantly, why should you believe that they ar doing anything to…

The Magazine Experiment: Asimov's, October/ November 2007

The current edition of Asimov's is a double issue, for October and November. This is apprently an annual thing, but whatever the reason for it, I got a magazine with twice as many stories as usual, which probably creates a false impression of the worth of the magazine. I'll have to check out a regular-size version in the future. This is also probably the end of the Magazine Experiment, because I can't find anywhere to buy F&SF around here: their return policy is sufficiently obnoxious that the local SF specialty store won't carry it, and neither Borders nor Barnes & Noble had any…

Links for 2009-10-28

Op-Ed Contributor - Bring Back Basketball's Little Big Men - NYTimes.com "[I]f the N.C.A.A. truly cared about improving colleges instead of settling for the extra year before eligibility that Stern is talking about, it should use its considerable influence to demand that both the N.B.A. and N.F.L. foot the college's bill for training pro athletes by paying a given amount each year for each player successfully drafted from college. The money would go into a fund for academic scholarships at the colleges these players attended. It wouldn't perhaps turn young superstars into student-athletes,…

So nice, and so wrong

What do you do on airplanes? I usually devour a book or two, usually something popcorny and light, sometimes something I need to get read for work. On my trip home from Washington DC, I lucked out: I was handed a book the day I took off, and it turned out to be a damned good read. Jason Rosenhouse is my co-blogger at Scienceblogs — he's a mathematician, but he's also neck-deep in the evolution/creationism wars. He was in town for the Reason Rally (wait: from the description, he left before my talk. Cancel the review, gotta pan him instead…nah, I guess I'll forgive him this one time), and he…

Gore decreases his energy usage so TCPR lies about it

Last year the Tennessee Center for Policy Research made quite a splash with a press release on Al Gore's energy usage: In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh--more than 20 times the national average. They've just released figures for the past year In the past year, Gore's home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month. Feel free to check my calculations, but I think that 213,210 is less than 221,000. Honest folks who report this but want to criticize Gore might write something like: "Gore doesn't reduce his…

Happy Giant Panda Day

Today is indeed a momentous day in history. On this day, in 1927, the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) was discovered by Teh West. It, of course, had previously been known to all those people for tens of thousands of years who lived among, and eated them. This is also Carl Sagan's birthday. He was born in 1934, which seems like billions of years ago. Do you remember Cosmos, first broadcast in 1980? (I always think of it as a few years earlier, but it was not.) Do you remember The Great Blackout of 1965? I do (barely). It was today, but back then. It looked like this: It is not…

How safe is your sushi?

Even if you're not pregnant, you have to be worried about toxic mercury levels in fish. Mercury is a highly reactive heavy metal that's present in raw fish, like sushi, and in canned fish, like tuna. Exposure to toxic levels of can cause damage to the nervous system and the renal system, but long term exposure at lower levels hardens arteries by inactivating antioxidant mechanisms. In fact, high mercury content can diminish the cardiovascular benefits of fish consumption, so eating fish may not benefit your health after all (Guallar et al, 2002, N Engl J Med). So how safe is your sushi?…

The Psychology of Small Cars

From Dan Neil, the wittiest writer in the newspaper business: Desire, the Buddha informs us, is the root of all suffering -- also, a leading cause of alimony, but let's move on. The craving for comfort, luxury, prestige and me-first acceleration drives us to buy more car than we absolutely need to go from point A to point B. And do these cars -- the Maserati Quattroportes, the Porsche Caymans, the Range Rover Sports -- make us happy? Well, yes. Yes, they do. But at what cost, karmically speaking? And for how long? I would point people to a common experience: Call it "rental car phenomenology…

Annals of peanut butter: it keeps getting worse

The peanut butter with a side of salmonella story just keeps getting worse (other posts here, here, here, here, here, here). The toll so far is 8 dead, 575 confirmed salmonella cases (and undoubtedly many more never reported) and 1550 products recalled, one of the largest recalls in US history. The Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) plant in Blakely, Georgia, sold peanut butter in bulk to institutions (like nursing homes and schools) and peanut paste and similar ingredients to many other companies. And even as it did so, its own and government agency records showed there was a problem. The…

Rev. Moon and North Korea

At a time when we are dealing with a growing threat from North Korea, it's probably a good idea to take another look at the relationship between Reverend Moon and the maniacal dictator Kim Jung Il. The investigative reporter Robert Parry has long been following Moon's activities and in October of 2000 he published this report based on the findings of a Defense Intelligence Agency investigation. He reports: Yet, in the 1990s when North Korea was scrambling for the resources to develop missiles and other advanced weaponry, Moon was among a small group of outside businessmen quietly investing…

The Poetry in Science

Poetry is finding its way into our consciousness at the Weizmann Institute: At the recent, fourth annual Science on Tap evening, which the Institute hosts in Tel Aviv, several poets joined in the fun, reading from their work before and after the talks given by scientists in over 60 filled-to-capacity pubs and cafes around the city. And calls have gone out for entries to the Ofer Lider creative writing contest – open to scientists (writing in Hebrew). The contest is named for Prof. Ofer Lider, an Institute scientist who, sadly, died young and who wrote poetry because he believed that…

"Memory," Online

Above, Elvis's famous coif has been pasted over the faces of three famous people. Does the hair make it more difficult to recognize them? You may un-coif the faces at the online "Memory" exhibit produced by San Francisco's interactive museum, Exploratorium. The website includes loads of these kinds of visual demonstrations and memory games, webcasts of lectures from cognitive scientists who specialize in memory research, even an interactive dissection of a sheep's brain. Another section features the paintings and drawings of a local San Francisco artist, Franco Magnani. Magnani, who…

California's declining frogs

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you'll know that 2008 is Year of the Frog (more here), and that several projects - including Amphibian Ark and EDGE - are working to try and save endangered frog and toad species before they become extinct. We need to do all we can to continue to drum up interest in the conservation effort that many of us are now involved in. Quest, a science show at KQED (the PBS station in San Francisco), has just produced a new video concentrating on the decline of Californian Yellow-legged frogs R. boylii (aka Foothill yellow-legged frog, and it's - apparently -…

London Update: One Month Away!

Hey, do you all know what day today is? Today is one month before I will be standing in London England. That's right, one month from this very moment, after having spent the previous night on a redeye from NYC, I will be hanging around with my NATURE blog colleagues and exploring London pubs with a science-y theme (we could still use some pub suggestions!) [Click the icon above to learn more and to register online to attend the conference free!] I am very excited. In fact, I am so excited, I could scream! I am already working on plans for things to see and do [tentative schedule],…

Engineers aren't all bad

If you've got the 29 August issue of Chemical & Engineering News, there's an interesting editorial inside. It seems there has been a flurry of activity on C&EN on the issue of evolution; the editor dismissed the whole idea of intelligent design creationism back in February, saying that it was not an acceptable alternative to the theory of evolution and should not be taught in the schools. He got hammered with forceful complaints from pro-ID engineers, and many letters were published in the April issue. Uh-oh, I hear all the engineers out there groaning, here comes the Salem hypothesis…

Links for 2011-03-29

Nascence at Tobias Buckell Online "New York Times Bestseller Tobias S. Buckell has published 45 short stories in various magazines and anthologies. But in the process of learning how to sell those 45, he wrote over 100 short stories that failed in a variety of ways while learning the craft. In Nascence, he reprints 17 failed stories written from 1996-2004 and details some of the major failings of the stories that led him to abandon them, and what he learned from those failures moving forward." (tags: writing books stories education buckell publishing) the adventure begins... | burgers…

Stockholm Archaeological Museum RSS Feed

The incomparable net-head archaeologist Ulf Bodin directs the highly successful work to put the collections of the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm (Statens Historiska Museum) on-line. Off and on over the past year, I've worked through the scanned catalogues of two centuries, searching for source material relevant to my work with Late 1st Millennium elite manors in Östergötland. To do this, I only needed to visit the museum once, looking in the flesh at some early acquisitions that weren't described well in the catalogue. So I could have done almost all of the work from anywhere in…

Porn Destroys the Moral Fabric of America. Or not.

Great research from the indispensible Radley Balko about the alleged link between pornography and rape, teen pregnancy and other bad things. With the attorney general cranking up the porn prosecutions and the religious right foaming at the mouth about the easy availability of porn on the internet (I happen to agree that porn is too accessible online, but not with their solutions) causing every imaginable evil, one would think that the last decade, with the internet becoming ubuiquitous, we'd see increasing rates of such things. In fact, the opposite is true. As Balko points out, sex crimes…

Sugata Mitra: Can kids teach themselves?

Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves? In 1999, Sugata Mitra and his colleagues dug a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed an Internet-connected PC, and left it there (with a hidden camera filming the area). What they saw was kids from the slum playing around with the computer and in the process learning how to use it and how to go online, and then teaching each other. In the…

An evening of old fashioned rural American entertainment

Oh, dear…today is the day the clown from Answers in Genesis is speaking at the elementary school in Morris. I guess I'll be going, even though Terry Mortenson is a goats-on-fire flaming moron. Here he is in all of his pursed-lipped pretentious glory. Anyway, I'll be attending his 6:00 lecture — "Dinosaurs: Have You Been Brainwashed?" — and the 7:30 exercise in idiocy — "Noah`s Flood: Washing Away Millions of Years". The schedule is online; I may get more than my fill today, so I don't know that I'll go to any of the Monday events. It's a disgrace that such a fool was invited here. I will…

Tidbits, 29 July 2009

All of today's tidbits are from one blog! Well, all but one. David Rosenthal on digital preservation. I had this bookmarked to blog about, but… Chris Rusbridge beat me to it, saying everything I would have. Yes, online-versus-offline. Yes, research data in uncommon, niche, and/or proprietary formats. Yes, metadata! And yes, thinking for ourselves. Semantic Web of Linked Data for Research? In all honesty, my reaction to "Linked Data" can be summed up in Chris's question mark. I am not a fan of RDF, I remain to be convinced that even small, constrained Semantic Webs are feasible given how…

Cornell Provost's Series Lecture Now Online

My Cornell University Provost's series lecture given on September 20 was quite a memorable one. I was only waiting for video to go online to provide more information about the event, and now it has. So: Follow the link to view my talk (30 minutes plus) and then the responses from expert panelists--Kurt Gottfried of the Union of Concerned Scientists; Steve Hilgartner of Cornell's Science and Technology Studies Program; Ted Lowi, John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, Government Department, Cornell; Jon Shields, University of Colorado; Ron Herring, Government Department, Cornell;…

The Multiple Languages of Science(Blogs)

Page 3.14 asks, in a poll which you should all go participate in, which language should ScienceBlogs branch into next? I voted that the next ScienceBlogs should be in Chinese, due to their up-and-coming science programs as well as the massive amounts of people who could stand to benefit from educational blogs in Mandarin. However, you have the inevitable down-side of censorship in China itself. My parents (who live in Suzhou) cannot read my blog, or any ScienceBlog here, due to censorship. Why? I have no idea. The other angle is that China is seperated by many spoken language barriers, but…

Mediterranean jellies.

In browsing through my photo library, I stumbled on pictures from my last trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium of a jellyfish I haven't blogged yet, the Mediterranean jelly (Cotylorhiza tuberculata). I consulted the Monterey Bay Aquarium Online Field Guide and discovered that it isn't listed. That hardly seems fair! Luckily, Wikipedia comes through in the clutch. Cotylorhiza tuberculata is sometimes called the fried egg jelly, a name that didn't make a lot of sense to me. Do you eat many fried eggs with dangly purple bits? Me neither. If anything, these jellies put me in mind of…

Telegraph refuses to correct misrepresentation

The Telegraph is hanging on to its lead over the Australian. After publishing a story by Richard Alleyne that misrepresented the work of Ian Fairchild, they have not corrected the story and not published Fairchild's letter of correction. But that's not all. Ben Goldacre reports: Worse than that, Prof Fairchild has tried to post comments on the article which flatly misrepresents his own research, twice, but his comments have been rejected by the Telegraph's online comment moderators, while 23 other comments have appeared. It's quite hard to understand both the intellectual and moral reasoning…

Redoubt Hut webcam back online - and a new ash column spotted!

The Hut webcam at Redoubt that has a great view of the hydrothermal vents near the 1989-90 domes - and the area where the current eruption is likely to be sourced - is back online. So far, we can see what looks like lahar deposits on the lower left-hand flanks of the volcano in the stream channels (likely formed by the melting of the Drift Glacier) and ash deposits all over the snow. Also, depending on the light and clouds, you can definitely see an ash column coming from the volcano. Also, AVO is reporting that at 7:41 PM (Alaska time), a new ash column was spotted on radar reaching 60,000…

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Ivan Oransky

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' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Ivan Oransky from Reuters Health and Embargo Watch to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)?…

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Fabiana Kubke

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' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Fabiana Kubke, who came to the conference all the way from New Zealand, to answer a few questions. Fabiana writes on Building Blogs of Science which is syndicated on SciBlogs.co.nz Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers…

ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Andrew Thaler

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' interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Andrew Thaler from Southern Fried Science to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is…

Just a few more days left to vote for the Kavli Video People's Choice Awards

Which is the coolest science video? You tell us! Cast your vote now for the Kavli Video Contest People's Choice Award! Just a few more days to vote! Just check out all the great science videos online, and then you rate them! And be sure to give your favorite a 5 stars rating. Voting for the People's Choice Award is fast and easy !!! First, you need to register and log into the SciVee site http://www.scivee.tv Then view all of the Kavli science videos here Click the star rating you prefer under each video that you review. A "Thank You for Voting" notice will appear and your vote will be…

The videos are in! Now it's time to vote for your favorite! The Kavli Video Contest People's Choice Awards!

Which is the coolest science video? You tell us! Cast your vote now for the Kavli Video Contest People's Choice Award! Just check out all the great science videos online, and then you rate them! And be sure to give your favorite a 5 stars rating. Voting for the People's Choice Award is fast and easy !!! First, you need to register and log into the SciVee site http://www.scivee.tv Then view all of the Kavli science videos here Click the star rating you prefer under each video that you review. A "Thank You for Voting" notice will appear and your vote will be recorded toward the total for the…

The videos are in! Now it's time to vote for your favorite! The Kavli Video Contest People's Choice Awards!

Which is the coolest science video? You tell us! Cast your vote now for the Kavli Video Contest People's Choice Award! Just check out all the great science videos online, and then you rate them! And be sure to give your favorite a 5 stars rating. Voting for the People's Choice Award is fast and easy !!! First, you need to register and log into the SciVee site http://www.scivee.tv Then view all of the Kavli science videos here Click the star rating you prefer under each video that you review. A "Thank You for Voting" notice will appear and your vote will be recorded toward the total for the…

Feb/March Food Storage and Preservation Class

Are you gearing up for the new garden season and thinking ahead about what to do to make your garden work all year long for you? Concerned about the rising price of food and looking for ways to feed your family through tougher times? Want to get in on the fun and wonderful flavors of home preserved food? Concerned about how to adapt your storage or preserving to special diets? Want to make the most of your farmer's market? All of the above? I'll be teaching a six week online, asynchronous (ie, you don't have to be online at any particular time) class on food storage and preservation…

Jobs: SR. SCIENCE NEWS WRITER

The Duke Medical Center News Office is seeking a Sr. Science News Writer to be responsible for planning, developing, implementing and analyzing strategic comprehensive and diversified media relations programs and tactics. Through direct support of Duke Medicine strategic objectives and the associated strategic plan, the Sr. Science News Writer accrues value to the Duke brand through local, regional and national news exposure. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Journalism, English or a related discipline and at least 5 years of extensive media relations or science news…

New Media and Science Communication

The Science Communication Consortium presents: DISCUSSION ON THE ROLES OF EMERGING MEDIA OUTLETS IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE Thursday, JAN 31st, 7-8:30pm Mount Sinai School of Medicine, East Building Seminar Room (1425 Madison Ave at 98th St, NYC) A discussion of how science is communicated effectively - and ineffectively - through emerging media outlets, such as blogging, podcasts, online multimedia, and more. Blogs, podcasts, and other new media outlets have changed the way people learn about scientific info, and shortened the shelf life of these stories. This immediacy of information…