clock | November 3, 2009I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
- Anna Quindlin
clock | November 3, 2009As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Sheril Kirshenbaum is a good friend, a marine biologist and a former SciBling. She blogs at The Intersection, has co-authored "Unscientific America" and written the forthcoming "The Science of Kissing". After proclaiming she'd never do it, she succumbed to Twitter as well. At the conference, Sheril will co-moderate the session "Online Civility and Its (Muppethugging)…
clock | November 3, 2009November edition of Scientia Pro Publica is up on Observations of a Nerd
Carnival Of Evolution, 17th Edition is up on Adaptive Complexity
Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 6 are up on Non-Clinic Jobs
clock | November 3, 2009New this morning in PLoS ONE, PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers:
Mandatory Disclosure of Pharmaceutical Industry-Funded Events for Health Professionals:
We are in a period of unprecedented scrutiny of the relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and doctors [1]-[4]. Legislators are now considering how they might become involved in the regulation of these practices. This is a telling comment on the perceived failure of the medical profession to regulate itself and of self-…
clock | November 2, 2009I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
- Anna Freud
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 2, 2009As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Trevor Owens is the community lead for the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. He blogs at the eponimous blog and tweets.
At the conference, Trevor will do an Ignite-style talk "Data mining the literature with Zotero" and will participate in the session about "…
clock | November 2, 2009Go say Hello to Andrew Gelman at Applied Statistics.
You can check out the archives of his old blog here.
clock | November 1, 2009One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
- Ann Radcliffe
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 | November 1, 2009Berry Go Round #21 is up on Beetles In The Bush
Carnival of the Liberals #98: The Halloween Fearmongering Edition is up on Greta Christina's blog.
clock | November 1, 2009October was a very busy month and the blog must have felt a little neglected. Still, I managed to post 142 times last month...and not just Clock Quotes.
Open Access Week was in October, and I particularly paid attention to Open Access Week in Serbia.
I announced the PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month for September 2009 , the new Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease PLoS Collection and the New and Exciting in PLoS ONE - articles with embedded interactive 3D structures.
I got off the computer, out of the house and in the car and went to some science/technology local sites and events, which I…
clock | October 31, 2009Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
- Ann Morrow Lindbergh
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, 2009We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.
- Ani Difranco
clock | October 30, 2009Scientia Pro Publica #14 is up on Genetic Inference
Friday Ark #267 is up on Modulator
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 30, 2009
Aaron Rowe is a PhD student in biochemistry at UCSB and a blogger for Wired Science. I interviewed Aaron last year, right after our second, 2008, meeting.
If you see soychemist on Twitter, that's him! At ScienceOnline2010, Aaron will do an Ignite-style inspirational talk "SARS, Drugs, and Biosensors".
Molly Keener, also a veteran of all the ScienceOnline conferences in the past, is the Reference Librarian in the Coy C. Carpenter Library at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and runs their news blog.
David Whitlock is familiar to the regular readers of this blog as well as many other…