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clock | September 26, 2009There are only a couple of days left. Some competitors have already asked their supporters to switch their vote from them to Grrrl. Right now, she is the only real science blogger with a chance to actually win this. So, if you have not voted yet, or voted for someone else, go vote now. Just click here right now, register (simple and quick) and vote.
aardvarchaeology | September 24, 2009The seventy-sixth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Afarensis. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology!
Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for hosting. The next vacant hosting slot is in less than two weeks, on 7 October. No need to be an anthro pro.
laelaps | September 24, 2009This year has seen an explosion of books written by science bloggers, and it looks like the trend is going to continue well into 2010.
Jason Rosenhouse recently published The Monty Hall Problem and is hard at work on a new title about what goes on at creationist conferences.
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum released Unscientific America, and Kirshenbaum is nearing completion on a new book, The Science of Kissing.
The ever-popular Carl Zimmer brought us two new gems, Microcosm and the soon-to-be-released The Tangled Bank. I can't wait to see what's next.
Rebecca Skloot's long-…
sciencewoman | September 23, 2009Don't adjust that dial. Starting ~ now, ScienceWoman is officially renaming herself SciWo. I've been trying out the name for some time, but have finally decided to make it official and change the way my posts are labeled, my comments signed, and my tweets delivered. Partly, this is an effort to combat Alice's invisibility that was created when our blog name was so close to my pseudonym. (You wouldn't believe the number of emails that we get that either think we are one person or that mix the two of us up.) But another justification for the pseudonym mutation is that I want my nym to reflect…
emjohnson | September 22, 2009Scientia Pro Publica, the biweekly blog carnival of science, is now up at The Lab Rat. Rats and primates haven't always gotten along, but I appreciate the interspecies support in the inclusion of my recent piece. Thanks for another great edition.
clock | September 21, 2009Seven keys to building healthy online community
Is your work cited in journals which are not ISI listed? Publish or Perish
God And Prosperity - Ronald Bailey sums up a new paper by Gregory Paul in the journal Evolutionary Psychology.
Why the news media became irrelevant--and how social media can help
UCLA Art | Sci Center & Lab - UCLA Art/Sci Center promotes Third Culture: collaboration between (media) art & (bio/nano) sciences.
How Bad Papers Get Published in Good Journals
Begging meerkat pups
Sea Stars Grow Faster as Water Warms
AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads - In 1993, you couldn't…
clock | September 20, 2009Totally copying Chris' idea, let me do this experiment - put here the choice links that I posted on Twitter over the past week. Does not include links I "Liked" on FriendFeed or Facebook, just links I tweeted or retweeted over the last seven days, roughly in chronological order:
Michelle Malkin and the anatomy of the 2 million protester lie
Blogs & Clouds -- The Real-time Web Takes Another Step Forward
What Is Socialism in 2009?
Defying Gravity (but not the unforgiving reality of the television market)
Book Review: Islands in the Cosmos
In a Shark's Tooth, a New Family Tree
One Injury, 10…
awild | September 15, 2009
Ainsley Seago draws a fungus beetle
Rick Lieder shoots a firefly at sunset
Clay Bolt mows with the dictator
Doug Taron hibernates his butterflies
Bug Girl gets a car crush
clock | September 10, 2009Best Slideshow About Social Media:
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
View more documents from Marta Kagan.
The follow-up to this., from Berci
aardvarchaeology | September 9, 2009The seventy-fifth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Ad hominin. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology!
Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for hosting. The next vacant hosting slot is on 7 October. No need to be an anthro pro.
clock | September 8, 2009I know everyone in the sci-blogosphere is swooning over Carl Sagan. But as a kid I never cared much about him - I usually fell asleep halfway through each episode of 'Cosmos'. But I would not miss for anything an episode of 'The Underwater Odyssey of Commander Cousteau' with Jacques-Yves Cousteau. That was breathtaking. And what he and the crew of Calypso did was truly ground-breaking, both in terms of scientific discoveries and in terms of under-water filming. And those discoveries and breakthroughs were shared with us, the audience, in an intimate and immediate manner.
That was a long time…
awild | September 8, 2009By request, I have now organized the ant photos by subfamily. This mimics the arrangement from the old site. For the smug-muggers out there who want to know how it works, I basically set up an "old journal" gallery and put the genus names and links into the caption box. I used CSS to set all photos to align right.
Also, the Recent Photos feed on my blog (in the right sidebar) has been changed to show new uploads to alexanderwild.com. That way you can keep an eye on new material as it goes up. If that's your thing.
Finally, for good measure, below the fold is the full ant genus-by-…
clock | September 8, 2009And blog from there? For the Quark expedition!
The voting has been going on for quite a while now, but now we are in the final stretch. There are several hundred contestants, but only the top few vote-getters have a chance (they also need to pass an in-person interview).
The voting is well controlled - it requires a simple registration - so it is not possible to game the system (too much). It is also possible to change your vote, so if you have already voted for someone who now has no chance, you may want to switch to someone who has.
Several people at the top are good (including Danielle…
awild | September 7, 2009Long live Myrmecos.net!
By way of a replacement, the ant photos are now over at alexanderwild.com:
Advantages of the new site include:
Galleries can be viewed as a slide show
Geo data are integrated with Google Maps (I'm still working on this)
Images can be displayed at a larger size (up to 800 pixels)
RSS feeds (for example: new photos)
Smoother navigation
Searches return relevant thumbnail images
Automated commercial licensing
Automated ordering of prints
Images and galleries allow comments
As in the old site, the ant images are accessible by taxonomic list, by natural history, by…
clock | September 7, 2009Zombies of the mammoth steppes. Read it now. Can you find something as riveting, yet scholarly and trustworthy, in your newspaper today?
laelaps | September 7, 2009Science blogging is hard work. Everyone has their own style and motivations, but in general it can be said that it takes a lot of effort to write about science with the frequency and skill that many bloggers do. With this in mind, and given the positive response these two posts have received, I thought it would be fitting to take a moment to express my thanks to one of my favorite science bloggers.
I admire the work of many science bloggers, but if I tried to list them all I would no doubt leave someone out. Fortunately for me there is one that really stands out from the rest. Scicurious, who…
aardvarchaeology | September 7, 2009The 75th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Ad hominin on Wednesday. Submit your best recent stuff to Ciarán. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!
The carnival needs hosts. The next open slot is on 7 October 23 September. Drop me a line!
clock | September 5, 2009As you've all already heard, Scienceblogs.com is thinking about introducing some new technical functionalities, including some community-building gadgets.
Now, you should go to this post on Page 3.14 and give your feedback. There is a poll there that you can do - it is a little unusual: you vote not by clicking but by dragging items up (which pushes other items down).
If the poll does not work for you, or if some of the items you really, really hate (and the poll does not allow you to NOT vote for any item), or if there are other things you'd rather see, please post a comment. They are…
aardvarchaeology | September 3, 2009The Sb Overloards have a poll up to learn what y'all think about the upcoming Sb on-line forum reform.