clock | September 25, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Embargo? Embargo? The case of the missing flu paper - An open-and-shut case for open science?
Blogging geoscience meetings
Congrats to Cary, NC for being named as one of America's "Next Cities" by Next Generation Consulting: Where Are the Next Cities?
RTP: To understand the history of science/technology parks read the NRC report, for future read ours - Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty Years of Technology-Led Economic Development
News, Medical Students, Social Network Analysis: Digital Histories can't…
clock | September 25, 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:
Neuroanatomical Variability of Religiosity:
We hypothesized that religiosity, a set of traits variably expressed in the population, is modulated by neuroanatomical variability. We tested this idea by…
clock | September 24, 2009I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
- Albert Camus
clock | September 24, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
An Ontology for Biological Similarities
Open Access Publishing Is Not Perfect, Yet
Misunderstanding Dawkins: The Role of Metaphor in Science
Which scientists can you trust? (also discussed on FriendFeed) - something I'd like to see discussed at ScienceOnline2010
Page links to newspapers avail 2 UNC folks, including several versions of @dailytarheel
Michael Nielsen & Clay Shirky: Futurologists 'R Us
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
Happy to announce I got on the Editorial Board of the Journal of…
clock | September 24, 2009Under the fold are some pictures from the inaugural Long Table event at 3Cups in Chapel Hill with Moroccan food prepared by Sandwhich, organized by Anton and Erin Zuiker.
There were about 35 people there. I knew a few of them from before, but it was mostly new people I got to meet. Some people were new even to Anton and Erin as this was a publicly advertised event, open to the first 35 people who sign up. Every now and then, a person would get up and tell a short story related to food and travel, mostly about unforgettable meals in unforgettable places.
I am aware of only one blog post about…
clock | September 24, 2009Let's check all seven PLoS journals tonight.... 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:
Molecular Phylogenetics of the Genus Neoconocephalus (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) and the Evolution of Temperate Life Histories:
The katydid genus Neoconocephalus (25+ species) has a prominent acoustic…
clock | September 24, 2009Today, I accepted the invitation to join the editorial board of the Journal of Science Communication. Now I am reviewing my first manuscript....
clock | September 24, 2009On Tuesday night I went to the RTP headquarters for Techie Tuesday, an occasional event when people who work in various companies in the Park come over, after work, and have some good food, a beer, and get to relax and chat and meet new people. It is quite a lot of fun. Pictures under the fold (better quality on Twitpic):
clock | September 23, 2009Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, ever minutes so filled with the life I love, that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
- Aga Khan III
clock | September 23, 200947 institutions in 14 German Federal States will take part in the Open Access Week 2009.
Prevention of Winter Depression
Iran's science minister does science the easy way: by plagiarizing [updated]
Glenn Beck and left-right confusion
Getting a jump on journalism bootstrapping
'You and Your Research' (PDF), or how to become the ultimate Ivory Tower insider.
Elaine Marshall is running for Senate.
Raleigh News & Observer has a new website - what do you think? Improvement, but is it going far enough?
Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind
Frameworks and Lessons from…
clock | September 22, 2009There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
- Aeschylus
clock | September 22, 2009Triangle is first stop in U.S. global health revamp
CNN's New Journalism Strategy: Out-Dumbass The Internet (video)
Why Fall Colors Are Different in U.S. and Europe
Cartooning Evolution Home, 1861-1925 - awesome evolution-themed cartoons from old newspapers.
UNC pharmacy prof Stephen Frye on Ernie Hood's Radio In Vivo today at noon EDT on WCOM-FM
Survey of Healthcare in America and an Argument for Change
The once-quiet scientist - A former animal researcher decides to speak out.
The Obama Roadblock: Why He's Sagging Online
The wrong way to do it - Graphing data on healthcare on TV - inept or…
clock | September 22, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 370 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):
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 360 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You…
clock | September 22, 2009There are 21 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:
Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolution:
Integration of diverse data (molecules, fossils) provides the…
clock | September 22, 2009Celebrity, blogging and the role of the academic
Journalism FAIL on climate change: Vital signs weak for climate bill (via @jayrosen_nyu: "For a perfect example of "will it work?" outranking "is it true?" see The Politico's savvy")
Rebooting the News #26 (podcast)
Canadian Health Care, Even With Queues, Bests U.S.
Deadline Sept. 28 for DuraSpace/SPARC Open Access Week Contest Entries
Open Access Week has a FriendFeed room - join in.
Melatonin Promotes Oligodendroglial Maturation of Injured White Matter in Neonatal Rats
Novak Djokovic imitates then plays against John McEnroe (video)
Making the…
clock | September 21, 2009Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson
