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clock | November 10, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Busting Marine Myths: Sharks DO Get Cancer!
Who gave Tierney a column!? The New York Times Columnist Who's Helping To Ruin The Future
ORGASM INC., documentary reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women.
Open Lab PSA
Urban Farming Grows Food and Nourishes Minds, Social Justice
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clock | November 9, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Oceanophilia: The Neuroscience of Emotion and the Ocean
But Does Twittering Really Sell Books?
Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
Most popular "Best of" Twitter lists are hopelessly male. So take a look at the Best Women on Twitter lists: One, Two and Three: eclectic, excellent, exciting - that is ~1300 women…
clock | November 8, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad
Download PLoS Article Level Metrics from Infochimps.org
Slow Science gets the Shaft - Part I
Internet Antichrist
Why did our species survive the Neanderthals? and Were Neanderthals our enemies or lovers?
The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place
DPAC first-year numbers…
clock | November 7, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
NYC subway system on Google Maps
Did you know that 'Dance Me to the End of Love' was inspired by Holocaust?
Deep thinkers: The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be
26 Scientific Products: From Scientific Cooking Kits to Experimental Lighting
Seriously cool font created out of bacteria wins prize
Best Hand…
clock | November 6, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Scientwists Twitter List by David Bradley on Listorious
FLOTUS: Elevating the social status of nerds everywhere
An open letter to the medical community - Some passionate debate about personal genomics!
The Genomic Ark: 10,000 vertebrate genomes
Beautiful electron microscopic and computer modelling images from the new book by…
clock | November 5, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Global warming worries drive biofuels research
Research participants have a right to their own genetic data
Time to talk periods
RT @maninranks: Idea for TheRTP: Recent Imagine Science film festival in NYC. Why not here? Replay theirs? Do our own?
Another post on distributed science v. open source science: Distributed…
clock | November 4, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
More on science journalism: Mind the spin - muttering on about spin and some suggestions.
How the Internet Enables Intimacy
The temporary web - "Twitter makes us forget"
Behold the human search engine
As usual, the press gets it all wrong
Lashing out at Latisse® and Latisse®: Tell me more about my eyes.
Journalists have…
clock | November 4, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
The future of news is entrepreneurial
Tribune Co. papers rewiring for experimental week without AP
Politicians Use Social Media to Bypass the Press Corps
The first great mammoth
Welcome to ScienceOnline2010
Worth Watching - three great eco movies for the weekend.
The End of Impact Factors as a Measure of Research Quality…
clock | November 2, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
I went to this today (8:30am-2:50pm only) and will blog about it later.
Mission Improbable: A Concise and Precise Definition of P-Value
Columnist Quits After Newsday Starts Charging for Its Web Site
The accidental science blogger
How do birds sense the Earth's magnetic field?
Contemplating ScienceOnline 2010 Sessions on…
clock | November 1, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Doctors' Lack of Respect Weighs on the Obese
Frogs in Boiling but Confusing Water: A Review of Climate Cover-Up
List of cognitive biases
Top Twitter Lists are very male...let's make a women-in-STEM and/or women-bloggers lists and such and push them.
A room of her own - 'Incredible story about a teacher who left a student $…
clock | October 31, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Every plastic bag and bottle you've ever used still exists
Deal in Senate on Protecting News Sources
Are you a 'messy thinker'?
The Complete Guide to Google Wave
Found one of these today. Obviously written by a coward. Boo!
A Must-Read for journos: There may be a future for the news business, but it's going to be…
clock | October 30, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
On science writing and journalism: Scientists can't write? and Science journalism--critical analysis, not debate and Three kinds of knowledge about science and journalism. Recommended.
A new treatment for chronic wounds
Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science?
Pretty Greeting Cards Warble, Tweet to Readers
Big-headed…
clock | October 29, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Science journalists, bloggers and the Brave New World we live in
Whispers Offstage? Could Be Actor's Next Line
College Newspaper Writing in the GoogleAge
Information technology boosts popular science education in poor areas
Building an open Carolina news network
The Mammoths in Spain Lived Mainly on the Plains
Venomous…
clock | October 28, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Science Fiction has no necessary connection with Science: Your Mind Tricks Won't Work On Me, Jedi and ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Blake Stacey.
The Atlantic article: sur rebuttal
If FriendFeed does not die by then, we'll use this Room for live coverage of #scio10, if not - GoogleWave? I am wondering if it will become…
clock | October 27, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Defending Science Isn't Always Pretty and When critics disagree with me, I'm a Pharma Shill. When critics disagree with a woman, it gets sexual.
How I Find Time to Write
Why The (Impure) Public Option is (Probably) Gaining Momentum and Don't Bother Waiting for Bloggers to Get Credit for the Public Option
A Graphic History…
clock | October 26, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Swine flu parties: I doubt anyone is that dumb, but I've been surprised before
Run, do not walk, to register for ScienceOnline2010
A PhD is not a 9-to-5
Wowd - a Real-Time search engine of 'what's popular'. Interesting....
RT @Bex_Walton: Images related to #PLoS ONE spider study in the NYT; 3rd story in 3 weeks: Science in…
clock | October 25, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Collaboration across news organizations: National (climate) The Climate Countdown and Local (healthcare) Madison media launch All Together Now with a collaborative reporting project on health care.
How to talk about human evolution to lay audience? Dawkins and Hewitt - John is onto something there, methinks....
Bachmann…
clock | October 24, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Open Source Science Commons
ScienceOnline2010 Hotel information is now up.
No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund
RT @eroston "Dangerous article for not saying--whatever US thinks--temps are rising and industry is responsible": Survey Says: Americans Not Worried About Global Warming
Journalists sink in The Atlantic article…
clock | October 23, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Science as a Religion that Worships Doubt as its God and Science and the Worship of Truth
Designing for the wrong target audience (or why Drupal should be a developer tool and not a consumer product)
The first African open access institutional mandate story (pdf)
Open Access Week - the challenge from the Wellcome Trust - '…
clock | October 22, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
'Connecticut Republicans create 33 fake accounts using names of Dem legislators; Twitter shuts them down': Republicans Overtweet - Twitter shuts down 33 fake accounts created by state Republicans in an attempt to lambast Dems.
Parents More Comfortable Talking Drugs than Science - Intel Survey Reveals Majority of Parents of…