Blogs and Blogging
mixingmemory | April 30, 2008Via Dave, I just learned of vision scientist Arthur Shapiro's new blog, Illusion Sciences. Very cool stuff.
mixingmemory | February 3, 2008Sorry for not posting lately. Some of you may remember the experiment I asked for help with a while back (here). Well, we've got good data now, and we spent the last week or so rushing to put it together to submit to a conference (the deadline for which was Friday). We've also been frantically collecting data for another really cool experiment, and are now trying to figure out what that data is telling us. So I've been busy as hell. But it's time for Just Science, so I'll be trying to post every day this week. Hopefully some stuff you'll find interesting.
mixingmemory | January 7, 2008In case you haven't heard from other bloggers, Just Science, in which bloggers choose to post about, well, just science for a week (5 days, this time) is back. The details are here, and you can sign up here. Everyone who signs up is added to the feed, so even if you don't sign up, you can read all of the Just Science posts by signing up for the feed here. The dates for this year's version are February 4-8, but you can sign up any time before then.
mixingmemory | December 30, 2007I hope everyone's having a nice holiday season. I'll be back to blogging next year.
mixingmemory | December 5, 2007The reading group has been showing signs of activity, if not real activity, over the last few days, and I've also gotten a few emails recently suggesting that I start it back up again. So I thought I'd toss the idea out there, and see how many people might be interested.
If we decide to do it, there are a few secondary decisions to make. The first is, what do we read? My impression is that the average level of cog sci knowledge among Mixing Memory readers has gone up a bit since the last time we did this, which makes picking a book a bit more difficult. Then there's the issue of format. Also…
mixingmemory | October 7, 2007At some point recently (I'm not sure exactly when, but in the last 2 weeks), Mixing Memory received its 500,000th visit. That's, like, a lot. A whole lot. I don't think I imagined getting even 5,000 when I started this thing, much less half a million. All I can say is thank you, for visiting, discussing, linking, writing me, and for just being cool cog sci fans. You people rock.
mixingmemory | July 14, 2007Through Saturday, a bunch of posts containing pictures and little more will be showing up here while I'm traveling on airplanes. They're meant to make a point, but what that point is will be clear only to a few of you. Some of the pictures are kinda cool, but for most of them, I recommend ignoring them entirely.
mixingmemory | July 2, 2007In case you haven't noticed, ScienceBlogs has a new neuro-blogger, and he's one you probably already know: MC, or Mo, the Neurophilospher. And he's hosting the 26th edition of Encaphalon at his new digs.
mixingmemory | June 27, 2007So the other day, I was talking to someone about one of the studies I was planning on posting about. I mentioned one of the results, and he said he'd really like to see the means and standard deviations. I thought to myself, "Alright, I'll put those in the post," but when I actually started writing the post, I began to fear that including standard deviations might just be confusing to people who don't have any background in statistics. So I left them out. But I didn't feel very good about leaving them out. So I decided to take action, and write a series of posts on the basics of the sorts of…
mixingmemory | May 27, 2007I haven't really updated the blogroll much since, well, I first created it. So if you've got a blog that fits into one of the categories over there on the left, including "seriously good but I don't know what to call it," and you want me to add you, leave a comment or drop me an email so I can check out your blog. If you know of a blog that's not yours that I should be reading, let me know about that too.
mixingmemory | February 6, 2007This isn't technically about science, but I wanted to remind everyone that the week of science challenge has begun (as of yesterday), and the Just Science webpage is aggregating the feeds of all the participating blogs. So if you're interested in reading a bunch of science blogging, including some by science blogs you probably haven't come across before, then head on over to the website.
UPDATE: Since I was suggesting you go read the feeds from all the participants, it would have been smart for me to link to the feed site. It's here. I'm sorry, I'm still learning about these newfangled…
mixingmemory | February 2, 2007Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, but I'm in the process of rolling out a couple new experiments, and the resulting headaches have left me with little time or energy. However, next week, there will be 7 science posts in 7 days, because the Just Science challenge begins on the 5th! If you haven't heard about the challenge, be sure to visit the website, and if you're interested in signing up, go to the sign up page. So far, 60 blogs are participating. Sixty! We should get some great science bloggin' next week.
mixingmemory | January 17, 2007So RPM of Evolgen and I were sitting around, chattin' about science blogging, when we suddenly realized that more and more, what science bloggers blog about is dictated not by science, but by anti-science. Creationists, global warming skeptics, anti-vaccine nuts, people who think the moon landing took place in New Mexico, etc. are increasingly in the science blogging driver's seat. We recognized, of course, that the anti-science people are largely to blame science bloggers dealing with anti-science, because they're the ones who keep touting their anti-science agendas, often publicly. This…
mixingmemory | January 14, 2007Welcome, everyone, to the 14th installment of the brain blogging carnival Encephalon. If you're in the United States, I hope you've got today off, and that you've at least taken a moment to think about the contribution that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. made to our society. If you're not in the United States, you're going to have to take a break from whatever you're doing, because this installment's got a hell of a lot of posts for you to read. So wherever you are, grab a cup o' joe, make sure you're in a comfortable chair, and enjoy.
Let's start, randomly, with some cognitive neuroscience.…
mixingmemory | January 2, 2007ScienceBlogs has added another brain sciences blog, Chris Chatham's Developing Intelligence. Welcome, Chris.
mixingmemory | December 7, 2006I should have posted about this yesterday, but, well, I'm a slacker. One of my favorite blogs, OmniBrain, has moved to ScienceBlogs. Both Stephen and Sandra are great bloggers, and they always manage to have fun with cognitive and brain sciences.
Stephen is a perception researcher, but I try not to hold that against him. He's done some cool work, though. Some of you might find this paper interesting, for example.
Sandra, in addition to her lighthearted blogging, also posts on important mental health issues, which has been something generally lacking on ScienceBlogs. She also makes really…
mixingmemory | December 5, 2006It seems that Mixing Memory is a finalist for best science blog in the 2006 Weblog Awards. I'm not sure how they decide on finalists (whoever gets nominated, I guess), but it's cool anyway. Several other ScienceBlogs were nominated as well, including Pharyngula (i.e., the winner), Deltoid, and Good Math, Bad Math, along with Respectful Insolence and The Cheerful Oncologist in the best medical/health issues blog category. In the science category, non-SBers, but Mixing Memory favorites John Hawks and RealClimate were also nominated. I'm torn between voting for RealClimate and Hawks, because…
mixingmemory | November 27, 2006I stumbled upon a paper on using blogs in education, with a focus on small colleges, and I thought it might be of interest to some of you. Here's the blog post with a link to the paper.
mixingmemory | November 22, 2006Hello everyone. Since the traffic's been up lately, meaning there are probably a lot of new people around, I thought I'd ask for any suggestions or requests you might have.
Also, if you're wondering about the framing project, it's still in the works. I've talked to some others about it, and received a lot of advice, so I'm just working to make sure I get it right. I could still use a little coding help, if you've got the will and the way.
mixingmemory | October 31, 2006OK, so apparently there's a blogging scholarship, and it just so happens that someone who comments here at Mixing Memory, Jennifer Wong of Cyberspace Rendezvous, is a finalist, as is fellow Science Blogger Shelley Batts. You should go vote for one of those two here. I'm going to endorse Jennifer, not only because she comments here (which automatically makes me like you, even if your comments are critical), and I'm loyal like that, but because she's a big Soul Coughing fan, and anyone who thinks Ruby Vroom was a great album deserves a scholarship. Good luck to both Jennifer and Shelley, though…