Blogging
clock | March 8, 2008DrugMonkey, Nick, Afarensis, Chad and John explain it better, but in short, each SciBling needs to pick two regular readers who will, over a longish period of time in the future, tag (in delicious, with a special tag) three site-wide scienceblogs.com posts of their interest. These posts will be included into a special reader-generated feed to which you can subscribe, and it will be visible on the front page. I am not sure, but I think the final list will be secret and I do not know for how long it will be valid, i.e., at what time intervals we need to pick new two people (every six months,…
sciencewoman | March 7, 2008When Alice and I teamed up last month, we realized that we needed a new name - one that was inclusive of both of our identities and reflects where we want this blog to go. Today, we're proud to unveil that new name and a new banner to go along with it.
From here on out, this blog is...
Sciencewomen
A scientist and an engineer being the change we want to see
Congratulations to Makita for being the first to suggest the name. She'll be receiving a Sb mug as her prize, just as soon as I find her address. And if any of you creative souls want to come up with a better banner for us, we'd love to…
laelaps | March 6, 2008Given how much time I spend writing at a computer (be it for this blog or my book), I thought I'd indulge in a little more navel-gazing about my writing habits. What I write is usually dictated by my surroundings and the time of day, and as much as I might like to change things a bit I can't help my own quirks & predilections.
When I write about peer-reviewed research or any post involving a number of technical papers, I'm usually writing at a desktop PC connected the university system. The ability to type a search term into google scholar, download a slew of papers, and glue everything…
clock | March 6, 2008...the intertubes. Busy week. Here are some good links:
Leaving your literary estate to the public domain:
This page has been circulating around the Web in recent days (apparently since February 26 or later). It depicts a sticker which an individual can apply to her ID card, in the manner of an organ donor sticker, indicating the individual wishes her copyrights to be released to the public domain upon her death.
The cloning of the bulls:
The story adds to last year's discussion about horse cloning (horserace horse cloning?). But here the main theme is the affection that owners have for…
sciencewoman | March 6, 2008I'm so pleased to welcome See Jane Compute to the ScienceBlogs family. Jane was one of the first women in science bloggers I discovered, and I've been a big fan ever since. She's been on the tenure track a couple of years longer than I, so I've really valued hearing her perspective on research, teaching, and dealing with colleagues. She's also got a baby girl, appropriately nymed Baby Jane, who is just a few months younger than Minnow. Welcome, Jane!
jane | March 6, 2008Hello, ScienceBlogs readers!
I am so thrilled to be joining this little corner of cyberspace. Allow me to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about why I'm here.
I'm Jane. I'm a computer scientist, an assistant professor, and a new mom. Trying to juggle those three identities is, shall we say, challenging at times, but never dull.
I started blogging in late December of 2004. (Geez, has it been that long?!) When I started my original blog (over at See Jane Compute), there weren't that many women science bloggers out there. So my blog started as a way to add a new voice to the…
clock | March 6, 2008Regular readers must be familiar by now with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Today's news from the school - their students have put up the first issue of their online newspaper, the ZSX-Press. Go check it out!
In related news, and also at the Asheboro Zoo and related to education, The NC Zoo and NC Zoo Society will be hosting the No Child Left Inside Conference Thursday (today), March 6th, which will be held in the MPR [multi-purpose room] of the Stedman Education Building. I wish I could go. Perhaps someone there will write about it and post something online.
awild | March 4, 2008but apparently the Myrmecos Blog is "excellent". Thanks Adrian!
On the off chance you actually came here looking for excellence, let me send you off in some more fruitful directions:
Drawing the MotMot
Stu Jenks
NCSU Insect Blog
clock | March 3, 2008Go say Hello to Josh Donlan, the new co-blogger on Shifting Baselines who will add a terrestrial component to the marine stuff already there. Josh's arrival is also bound to provoke some interesting blogging around the scienceblogs.com, as his ideas of 'rewilding' the American West are greeted with a whole spectrum of responses by our resident bloggers and comenters (see this, this and this for some examples). This is going ot be fun!
neurophilosophy | March 3, 2008Here are a number of new neuroscience blogs that I've come across recently:
Neuropathology Blog - by Brian E. Moore, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at Southern Illinois University's School of Medicine. This is a welcome addition to the blogosphere, as neuropathology is a dying art (if you'll excuse the pun).
Neuroanthropology Blog - a group blog by students and staff in the anthropology departments of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, USA, which "encourage[s] exchanges among anthropology, philosophy, social…
clock | March 3, 2008Retrospectacle and Omni Brain, as of now, have officially fused into the new, double-headed scibling - Of Two Minds. Go say Hello!
clock | March 2, 2008Under the fold, as the movie appears to slow down loading of my front page:
(Hat-tip)
Related: Wiki for beginners
clock | March 2, 2008The proposal for link journalism is not a new concept, though the phrase is good. This is something that bloggers have been doing for years and have been imploring the corporate media to adopt for years. On paper, you can provide references in the footnotes or endnotes, or you can mention "unnamed sources", but in the age of the Web, it is sheer blindness not to use links - nobody will trust you if they cannot click and instantly verify your statements. Remember - no links, no reputation.
clock | March 2, 2008Sue announces that the website will be up in two weeks, and the blog is already up and running. You can help with organization. In any case, mark you calendars:
ConvergeSouth 2008 will be held on October 16-17, 2008 in Greensboro, North Carolina. BlogHer will be held on October 18.
aardvarchaeology | March 1, 2008My on-line buddy Vladimir over at Diogenes's Bottle has blogged extensively and almost incomprehensibly about my humble personage. Just look at the possibly wonderful (or not) things he has to say about me!
La început - e drept - ideea ma amuza, caci citeam constant blogul lui Martin, un prieten suedez arheolog, care s-a mutat apoi de la Blogger catre bloggeristii profi-, adica cei platiti sa blogareasca. Martin era si este un personaj interesant. L-am cunoscut live on the web prin 2003-2004, când lucram la primul meu articol despre Basarabi si, din lipsa de materiale bune pe spatiul…
laelaps | February 29, 2008Today got off to a pretty bad start, so I'm experiencing a bit of blogger's block. In lieu of anything original, I liked Janet's questions about science blogs so much that I've decided to steal them and put up my own answers. John has done the same, and I expect others to soon follow suit. (Abel has now joined in, as has Greg.)
1. Why do you consider this blog a science blog?
I didn't initially set out with the goal of creating a science blog; it emerged as an outpouring of what I've been learning about and trying to understand about evolution. Some of what I write involves new papers,…
clock | February 28, 2008First, the interviews will continue....when I get some answers from one of the six people I sent questions to.... I will also be sending questionnaires to more people soon.
Second, there are some responses now to the 1-2-3, the Goosed/Book meme. First, Chad Orzel provides several interesting quotes. And now Tom Levenson responded with not one but two elaborate, illustrated posts: I've Been Tagged! Reading and writing and all that jazz. and I've Been Tagged! -- Darwin follow up. Update: Eric Roston and Jennifer Ouellette did it, too. And Vanessa as well.
I was also tagged by another meme,…
aardvarchaeology | February 27, 2008
The thirty-fifth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Archaeoporn. Archaeology and anthropology is quite a lovely and ladylike pastime for us ladies!
The next open hosting slot is on 9 April. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me. No need to be an anthro pro. But you must be a lady, like me.