Blogging
clock | January 31, 2007Graduate school is expensive, even with grants and loans. Perhaps if a lot of A-listers linked to this, it could be possible to collect enough. (via Chickpea Science)
clock | January 30, 2007I am so glad to see that conversations started face-to-face at the Science Blogging Conference are now continuing online (see the bottom of the ever-growing linkfests here and here). While some are between science bloggers, as expected, others are between people who have never heard of each other before and who came from very different angles and with different interests. The cross-fertilization we hoped for is happening (and if you had such an experience, let us know)!
See, for instance, what a casual chat over lunch at the Conference did to David Warlick - made him think about education…
clock | January 30, 2007Ha! We broke the ice and now others are following our example. The Best of Technology Writing 2007 is being planned (hat-tip: Pimm).
I think this is great! Biotech articles are welcome as well, so send in your faves for consideration. Of course, they are a little timid - non-blog articles can also be included, and they intend to work on it for something like nine months! I guess they are not nuts like me....
What is next? Medical Blogging Anthology? Who is going to spearhead that project?
clock | January 30, 2007Scientia Natura: Evolution And Rationality
Blogfish
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
1Third
Live-awake
Weblog
Eco-Chick
A History of Histrionics
Scaryduck
The Beagle Project Blog
Slow Down Now
Blackprof
Eyeteeth
The Southern Fried Skeptic
Spewing Truth in the face of lies
Insufficiently advanced
CUTE THINGS FALLING ASLEEP
Snoozester
clock | January 30, 2007Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon, the quickest draw of the Internets, the master of witty blog titles, and the scourge of mysoginists worldwide (like my regulars could avoid my almost-daily links to Pandagon and don't know who she is...), has just become the Blogmaster of the John Edwards campaign blog. Some of the bestest, snarkiest bloggers are joining Pandagon at the same time. And Amanda is moving to Chapel Hill so we finally get to meet! Waaaaay tooooo cooool!
clock | January 29, 2007The 'Basic Concepts in Science" list is getting longer and longer every couple of hours or so, it seems. Try to keep up with it. You may even want to Google-bomb (by linking using the same words as Wilkins does) some or all of the posts if you think they should come up on top in Google searches for these terms. Dan adds his own contribution on Cell Migration and Jennifer makes a wish-list for the Top Ten Physics Concepts that need to be included. To those, I'd add the series on statistics by ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES: Part 1: Samples, Part 2: Probability, Part 3: Sample Statistics, Part 4:…
clock | January 29, 2007All the new information is here - four meetings over the next month: one in cyberspace, two in the Real World (sitting and sipping coffee) and one in the Real World (moving about and doing fun stuff).
clock | January 29, 2007You may remember last week I gave a radio interview. It is airing in Asheville area tonight but you can already listen to it on the Brainshrub blog.
clock | January 29, 2007Now that the Anthology is arriving at people's homes, getting read and even reviewed on blogs, I hope that more people will take a minute to post reviews or ratings on the actual book webpage. In one week, it has moved from non-existent to 33rd to 27th on the Lulu.com top sellers of the week list. I am also working on having the book more widely available, e.g., on sites like amazon.com and in independent bookstores.
clock | January 28, 2007Yes, I know, I've been guilty on occasion of this nasty navel-gazing practice myself, but I was never this funny or this funny. Links discovered by Bitch PhD who also indulges herself in some meta-blogging about 18th century blogging. So, this post is meta-meta-meta-blogging itself, isn't it?
clock | January 28, 2007Since Katrina...
Women in Science
She's Such A Geek
Street Anatomy
Tangled Up In Blue Guy
Common Ills
Sasa Radojcic
KoBSON
clock | January 24, 2007In the Inkling Magazine: Science Bloggers Avoid the Spinach Dip Brush-Off, by Eva Amsen.
I am really happy to see how real-world conversations that started at the conference are now continuing online. Check the latest updates on the bottom of the posts here or here.
Also, the people who have ordered the blooks first, have now started receiving their copies (and commenting about their beauty on their blogs). The updated list of people blogging abot it is at the bottom of this post.
clock | January 24, 2007You have to read Conference thank you by Anton - the final word on the Science Blogging Conference, the behind-the-scenes commentary and the plans for the future! Go say Thank you to Anton - without him no conference would have happened last week in Chapel Hill. Anton also runs the Blogtogether site, where you can leave comments.
retrospectacle | January 24, 2007
The first time I went to SFN (Society for Neuroscience meeting), I was in awe of the "rep section" in the enormous conference center. An area the size of a football field was filled with over-educated salespeople trying to entice researchers to peruse their wares: the newest microscope, RNAi technology, custom-made antibodies. They were all set up, amidst the research posters, a veritable smorgasbord of free crap bearing company logos. Sometimes this stuff was really nice: I've acquired some decent pens, bags, single issues of journals, laser pointers, and sundry other bric-a-brac from these…
clock | January 23, 2007For quite a while I was aware of two blogs written by vet techs, and recently I discovered a couple of more written by veterinarians or vet students:
All But One Species
Vet Techs
Pet Connection
Diary of a Depressive Veterinarian
The Happy Healthy Horse
Dogged Blog
Discovering Michelle
Ambitiously Inquisitive
Not all of them write about animal health all the time, but, hey, if you go to a Xena Convention and get to interview Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor, of course you blog about it and post pictures of them and get, like, a million hits from Google the next day. You can always go back to…
aardvarchaeology | January 23, 2007John over at Stranger Fruit had a post recently on his most popular entries. Summing up, he found that controversial issues in science and religion drew the most attention. I've had a look at my Google Analytics as well, checking out the data for my old site since the present one has been on-line for less than a month so far.
In order to get anything interesting out of the exercise, I had to disregard two hugely popular entry categories: a) blog carnival hostings, b) entries with sex-related words in them. As I've mentioned before repeatedly, any post mentioning words relating to sex, porn or…
clock | January 23, 2007Well, as I said before, the end of the Conference/Anthology whirlwind is also a return to my Dissertation writing (and a lowering of my output here).
But I had to procrastinate just a little bit more - I just gave a very pleasant 30-minute interview for the Asheville (NC) community radio station about blogging, science-blogging and everything else (including the Conference and a pitch for the anthology), as a part of their Tips For Political Bloggers series. The interviewer is Paul of the Brainshrub blog. It will appear on his site next Monday morning and will air on Monday evening - I…