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laelaps | August 25, 2008The Boneyard #23 will appear on September 2 at When Pigs Fly Returns. Get your paleo-posts from the last month to me or Zach if you want in on the next edition!
clock | August 23, 2008Update: Register, login and edit the wiki if you intend to show up tonight.
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Anton just sent a message to the Triangle blogging community:
The annual BlogTogether Backyard Barbecue is this Saturday, August 23 from 5pm on, at my home in Durham. I'll provide a cold keg of Carolina Brewery suds, a hot grill and tasty pulled pork barbecue, and a deck perfect for conversing into the night. More details at http://blogtogether.org/index.php/wiki.
In NC next weekend? Join us!
clock | August 22, 2008This blog is slowly approaching a nice round number - 10,000 comments. I know this is not Pharyngula where this would take an hour or two to fill, but still, we can get the remaining 200+ comments in over the next few days, can't we?
The person who posts the 10,000th non-spam comment will get a prize - something (your choice exactly what) from the A Blog Around The Clock store.
neurophilosophy | August 22, 2008Six more new ones:
Encefalus
Missives from the Frontal Lobe
Neuromics
NeoCorTEXT
Neurospeculation
Nothing's Shocking
Plastic, Elastic, the PFC
neurophilosophy | August 22, 2008Where is this wonderful place? You're already there!
Neurophilosophy gets reviewed for the first time:
Neurophilosophy presents a unique opportunity to explore the many facets of the human condition with the guidance of a very well educated tour guide. From cannibalism to athleticism, "molecules, minds and everything in between," Neurophilosophy offers us a look at the human brain as most of us have never seen (or considered) it before.
Neurophilosophy is a place of interest, education, contemplation, and curiosity. It's hard to imagine what you might learn here, but it's safe to…
clock | August 20, 2008You all loved it when my Mom wrote two 5-part series of guest-posts. You remember the exciting reports from herpetology survey by Kevin when he was in China. My friend Heinrich wrote two guest-posts about sleep. And most recently Anne-Marie wrote a guest-post about daily rhythms in bats. As you all appeared to like these posts, I thought I'd ask another 4-5 bloggers to write something and post here. The first one will be posted here in a couple of hours, so stay tuned......
clock | August 18, 2008That is an interesting question, an answer to which was attempted in this paper:
Who blogs? Personality predictors of blogging:
The Big Five personality inventory measures personality based on five key traits: neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness [Costa, P. T., Jr., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Normal personality assessment in clinical practice: The NEO Personality Inventory. Psychological Assessment 4, 5-13]. There is a growing body of evidence indicating that individual differences on the Big Five factors are associated with different types…
clock | August 18, 2008
Tell Vedran what else should be included in the RSS Feed aggregator about Open Access....
clock | August 18, 2008I did already.
Female Science Professor (the Grand Dame of science/academic blogging) has just published a blook - a collection of her best blog posts.
You can and should buy "Academeology" on Lulu.com and later nominate it for the Blooker Prize.
And while you are shopping at Lulu.com, do I really need to remind you that this and this are still available there?
clock | August 18, 2008How much is four blog years in dog years? Half a century?
After about a year of posting comments elsewhere, I started my first blog and my first post on August 18th, 2004. Seems like a lifetime ago....
clock | August 16, 2008For those just coming back from their summer vacations, too busy to dig among hundreds of brief posts, here is a list of the posts that I myself consider to be my best in July and August 2008 (and perhaps SuperReaders can pick a few more of these - only 2-3 of those have been picked so far):
July:
Darwinist
Scientists are Excellent Communicators ('Sizzle' follow-up)
The Giant's Shoulders #1
Running the green light....
Crackpottery
Blog Carnivals - what is in it for you?
Are Science Movies Useful?
Berry Go Round #7
When religion goes berserk!
Crayfish, warming up for a fight!
The importance of…
clock | August 16, 2008And here is tireless Vedran again: Aggregator of RSS Feeds about endocrinology
neurophilosophy | August 15, 2008This blog is included in a list of Top 100 Mental Health and Psychology Blogs, compiled by a site called Online University Reviews.
The list is divided into a number of categories - general, cognitive and forensic psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, addiction, anxiety, autism, bipolar disorder and depression. Many of the sites listed are already on my blogroll, but a few of them are new to me.
aardvarchaeology | August 13, 2008The forty-seventh Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Almost Diamonds. Archaeology and anthropology, and all dedicated to a future merger of the Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment with the Backyard Bard!
The Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment (founded 1994) is an organization based in East Lansing, Michigan. It is a signatory to a wide range of public resolutions and petitions and works towards creating awareness on certain issues, such as promoting harmony and dialogue between Hindus and Muslims. The Backyard Bard is a Christian theatre company based in Melbourne, Australia. It…
clock | August 13, 2008La Blog Atorios is a new Brazilian science blog network (somewhat modeled after Seed scienceblogs.com):
Lablogatorios will start with 15 blogs (some more to come) with topics that range from Earth Sciences to Psychology. Our aim is to use blogs to boost scientific communication with the public in the portuguese language.
So, if you read Portuguese, go over there and start reading and commenting!
sciencewoman | August 13, 2008One of the joys of being on Scienceblogs is getting to watch the ever-changing banner and sidebar ads that are placed by the marketing folks at Seed. Unfortunately, the people making the advertising decisions are not scientists, nor do they vet their ad choices with us before running them. So, sometimes we bloggers aren't so thrilled with what pops up alongside our writing.
And right now, I'm not so thrilled with the ad for Bjorn Lomborg's book, Cool It! showing up in the side bar. Now, I'll admit that I haven't read the book, but what I've heard of it tells me that Lomborg has cherry-picked…
laelaps | August 13, 2008I didn't take nearly as many pictures as I thought I would during last weekend's trip to New York, but fortunately Bora (resident shutterbug here at Sb) has been posting lots of snapshots from the festivities. I also had the pleasure of meeting John Pieret on Saturday afternoon, and here's the photographic evidence.
The photos I have posted from this weekend were taken while running through the AMNH fossil halls just before closing time, but hopefully next time I'll think to snap a few more shots of my fellow bloggers before skipping town.
laelaps | August 12, 2008
Amphicyon
Welcome to the 22nd edition of The Boneyard, marking the long-awaited return of the blog carnival all about paleontology. Much has happened since the last iteration, so there's plenty of new blogospheric specimens to peruse;
Are there different "rules" of classification at work for fossil mammals than for. non-avian dinosaurs? Zach considers lumping and splitting at When Pigs Fly Returns.
Traumador reports on a new bit of titanosaur discovered in New Zealand.
Mo presents a specimen of one of my favorite "early birds," Confuciusornis, along with some new artwork.
A DC…
aardvarchaeology | August 12, 2008
ScienceBlogs has a huge audience (largely thanks to Pharyngula), which attracts advertisers. However, though the site's hit rate is a good quantitative selling point when you're pushing ad space, it lacks a qualitative dimension. If you advertise here, you know a lot of people will see your ad, but you won't know who they are.
My dad the ad man has actually worked with this sort of thing for decades. He and his colleagues will help you classify consumers and media outlets so that you can identify your ideal customer and ways to reach her. Put simply, if you're in the business of selling yarn…
skookumchick | August 12, 2008 Seed is trying to figure y'all out with a little official reader survey (in contrast with our threads asking you to introduce yourselves, which were not prompted btw by the Seed overlords, in case you were wondering). Apparently the reader survey takes only 10 mins to fill it out, and their numbers are way down, so if you complete it you have a good chance of winning an iPod AND a MacBook Air AND an Apple TV! (Apparently the Sb gods are Apple geeks, eeeeexcellent.)
I'd fill it out myself, but apparently I'm not allowed. If you complete it, I hope you win!