clock | October 27, 2009There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Extreme Cranial Ontogeny in the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus:
Extended neoteny and late stage allometric growth increase morphological disparity between growth stages in at least some…
clock | October 26, 2009Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
- Amanda Heggs, AIDS sufferer, quoted in The Guardian, June 12, 1989
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 26, 2009
Now that registration for ScienceOnline2010 is open I intend to, like I did in the past years, introduce the participants to my blog readers in a series of blog posts.
Of course, you can check out the entire list for yourself (already at 201 people!) but I will try to provide a little more information about everyone so, if you are attending, you may be on a special lookout for someone you really want to talk to or, if you are not attending, to see what you're missing so you can tune in virtually next January and make a firm promise to yourself that you will try to make it in person next time…
clock | October 26, 2009The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove to answer a few questions.
Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background?
Thank you, Bora
I am a lucky individual who was given a chance to exist, create and interact with other living beings on…
clock | October 26, 2009A couple of weeks ago, Chritsopher Perrien invited Anton Zuiker and me to Duke Radio for an hour-long interview about science and medical blogging, science communication and education, about the ScienceOnline2010 conference (and the three preceding meetings in the series) and even managed to insert a couple of more personal questions about us ....
You can now listen to the show - just click right here....
clock | October 25, 2009Sometimes only one person is absent and the whole world seems depopulated.
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
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, 2009We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
- Anais Nin
clock | October 24, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 420 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
10 days of science: Astronomical art: Representing Planet Earth
2020 Science: Hooked on science - ten things that inspired me to become a scientist
A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a…
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, 2009If you haven't grown up by the time you are fifty, you don't have to.
- Rick Cook
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 23, 2009
The registration for the ScienceOnline2010 conference in now open!
To register, click here. Just complete the registration form and hit Enter. Registration includes a small fee that will help us make the conference as good as you expect. Thank you.
Then come back and see who has registered so far. Check out the Program (which is almost finalized - the times and rooms will be assigned soon). Get information about travel and hotel and organize carpooling and room-sharing with other attendees.
clock | October 23, 2009At Duke University John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute:
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
In collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Duke's University Institutes, the FHI is pleased to present a 2-day symposium marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origins of Species. The core idea of the symposium is to mark these dual anniversaries by discussing Darwin's work (its impacts, legacies, etc) from a range of disciplinary perspectives crossing the sciences, humanities, arts…
clock | October 23, 2009The October winner will be announced on the 1st of November. Make sure your posts are aggregated on ResearchBlogging.org.
clock | October 23, 2009From the American Museum of Natural History, if you are in New York City at the right time:
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ANNOUNCES
TRAVELING THE SILK ROAD: ANCIENT PATHWAY TO THE MODERN WORLD
November 14, 2009 - August 15, 2010
WHAT
Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World
brings to life one of the greatest trading routes in human history,
showcasing the goods, cultures, and technologies from four representative
cities: Xi'an, China's Tang Dynasty Capital; Turfan, a verdant oasis;
Samarkand, home of prosperous merchants, and ancient Baghdad, a hub of
commerce and…
clock | October 23, 2009There are 18 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Impaired Control of Body Cooling during Heterothermia Represents the Major Energetic Constraint in an Aging Non-Human Primate Exposed to Cold:
Daily heterothermia is used by small mammals for energy and…
clock | October 22, 2009Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
- Albert Schweitzer