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aardvarchaeology | June 9, 2010The ninety-fourth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Anthropology in Practice. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology!
The next vacant hosting slot is already on 23 June. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for hosting. It's a good way to gain readers. No need to be an anthro pro.
clock | June 9, 2010OK, a busy day, mostly offline, so here's another provocation for you to trash in the comments ;-)
There are several different aspects of science communication. If we classify them, somewhat artificially, by who is the sender and who is the receiver of information, we can have something like this:
A) Scientists to scientists - mainly via scientific journals, also conferences, and recently via blogs and social networks.
B) Scientists to traditional media - mainly via institutional press releases, now also blogs and social networks.
C) Traditional media to interested ("pull" method) lay…
clock | June 8, 2010These days I am swallowing one good science book after another. 2010 seems to be a great year for science book publishing!
But I have also noticed that almost all of these books are written by science bloggers (or at least active Twitterers)! Some are writers first, and started blogging later. Others started as bloggers, and decided to also write a book.
Some use their blogs as writing labs, putting out ideas, getting feedback, honing the message, then collecting, fine-tuning and editing a couple of years of blog material into a book.
Others keep the two worlds pretty much apart - book…
clock | June 7, 2010Go say Hello to my newest Scibling, Maryn McKenna at Superbug (which is also the title of her latest book). Also check out the archives of her old blog.
aardvarchaeology | June 6, 2010The 94th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Anthropology in Practice on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Krystal, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!
The next open hosting slot is already on 23 June. If you're a blogger with an interest in the anthro/archaeo field, drop me a line! No need to be a pro.
clock | June 6, 2010You may have heard that, about six months ago, Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer started a new Monday Science/Technology section.
Among other articles, there is also an ongoing weekly feature - a brief interview with a science blogger (usually, but not always, located in North Carolina), conducted by amazing and unique Delene Beeland (blog, Twitter).
Today was my turn (actually not - the blogger who was scheduled for this week had a good reason not to be interviewed in this particular week, and I was glad to help in a hurry).
You can now read the interview with me at…
clock | June 6, 2010Reposted, as I needed to add a few of the most recent posts to the list - see under the fold:
Now that this blog has won the ResearchBlogging.org Award in the Biology category, people are coming here and looking for biology posts. And on a blog with almost 10,000 posts, they may not be easy to find. So, I put together a collection of posts that I think are decent under the fold. Different lengths, styles, topics, reading-levels - hopefully something for everyone:
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)
Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of…
clock | June 6, 2010Reposted, as I needed to add several of the most recent posts to the list - see under the fold:
As this blog is getting close to having 10,000 posts, and my Archives/Categories are getting unweildy (and pretty useless), I need to get some of the collections of useful posts together, mainly to make it easier for myself to find them. I did that by collecting my best Biology posts a couple of weeks ago. Today, I am collecting my best posts from the categories of Media, Science Reporting, Framing Science and Blogging. There are thousands of posts in these categories combined, most with excellent…
emjohnson | June 6, 2010(updated below)The Quark Award is now down to the last few days for general voting. One of the top twenty posts that you vote for will then go to Richard Dawkins to judge as the best science post of the year. My piece Chimpanzees Prefer Fair Play to Reaping an Unjust Reward has been nominated as have posts by my friends Ed Yong, Zinjanthropus, Razib, David Dobbs, Scicurious, Carl Zimmer, Christie Wilcox, PZ, Christina Agapakis, and Jason Goldman among many more.
Please click on this link and cast your vote. Today and Monday are the last days to vote and the top selections will be posted on…
aardvarchaeology | June 3, 2010
Universitetsläraren, the journal of the Swedish Association of University Teachers, has an article about blogging scientists in issue 2010:9 on the occasion of an upcoming PhD thesis in Lund about the subject. Scienceblogs.com is mentioned and Ãsa of Ting & Tankar is interviewed.
Blogging didn't steal energy from her thesis work during grad school, says Ãsa. On the contrary, "At first I didn't even expect anyone to read the blog. It was my safety valve while I finished my thesis. Writing it was like running once around the house to get some fresh air."
clock | June 3, 2010Ever have one of those times when you have a cool new blog post all ready in your head, just needs to be typed in and published? Just to realize that you have already published it months ago? Brains are funny things, playing tricks on us like this. I just had one of such experiences today, then realized that I have already posted it, almost word-for-word, a few months ago. It's this post. But something strange happened in the meantime: that post, in my head, got twice as long and changed direction - I started focusing on an aspect that I barely glossed over last time around. So perhaps I need…
clock | June 1, 2010The winner, as always, has been announced on the everyONE blog so jump on over there....
clock | June 1, 2010I posted only 127 times in May. Apart from many cool videos and various updates, I did blog about other things as well.
I went to the WWW2010 conference and wrote my thoughts about it.
Open Laboratory submissions are in full swing so I decided to post the old Prefaces and Introductions I wrote for the first three books.
Dennis Meredith came to town to talk about Explaining Research so I reported from the event. I also reported on the presentation about Serious Gaming at Sigma Xi.
Two of my friends and neighbors published books in May so I announced the sites and times for local readings - 'On…
aardvarchaeology | May 26, 2010The ninety-third Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at The Prancing Papio. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology!
Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Krys at Anthropology in Practice. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for hosting. The next vacant hosting slot is already on 23 June. It's a good way to gain readers. No need to be an anthro pro.
clock | May 25, 2010Cory Doctorow, blogger at BoingBoing and author of several books, came to town last weekend and did a reading/signing of his latest novel For The Win at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on Sunday.
I assume that, being bloggers and blog-readers, you all know who Cory is and what he does - if not, follow the links above as this post is going to be self-centered ;-)
This is the first time I got to meet Cory in person, but he is pretty important person in my life. After I have been blogging about politics for a couple of years and my blog started being well known in the circles of the progressive…
aardvarchaeology | May 23, 2010
The 93rd Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at The Prancing Papio on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Raymond, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!
The next open hosting slot is on 23 June. If you're a blogger with an interest in the anthro/archaeo field, drop me a line! No need to be a pro.
aardvarchaeology | May 20, 2010The Sb Overlordz have reinstated the Ask a ScienceBlogger feature. Now, Dear Reader, you already ask me a lot of questions in comments here on Aard. But to give your archaeology questions (and possible my replies) a bit more exposure, you might post your question as a comment on the blog entry linked to above, or email it to editorial@scienceblogs.com.
jdupuis | May 18, 2010Yes, it was May 18, 2009 that I opened a new chapter in Confessions of a Science Librarian history.
One year on Scienceblogs -- it's been a fantastic experience, one that I'm looking forward to continuing for the foreseeable future.
Now, where's the cake?
clock | May 17, 2010Well, this is some kind of switcheroo!
Revere (or reveres) of Effect Measure has/have closed the doors. One of the best science/medicine blogs ever. One of those I point to when people snidely say that blogs can't be trusted because they are all opinion and no substance. They can't repeat that once they see Effect Measure.
But Revere(s) is/are not totally gone from the blogosphere. This is a smooth transition - from a single-person (or so we think) blog to a group blog to which Revere(s) sometimes contribute(s) - The Pump Handle. See the archives here and go say Hello at the new place here.…