clock | September 21, 2009The new issue of the open access Journal of Science Communication is out. From the Table of Contents:
Filling the gap between theory and practice:
Jcom's adventure was launched nearly eight years ago, when a group of lecturers and former students of the Master's degree in Science Communication at SISSA of Trieste, decided to have training joined by the commitment to research on science communication issues.
Mapping gender differences in understanding about HIV/AIDS:
The present article investigates public understanding of HIV/AIDS related issues that touch the thought structure of common…
clock | September 21, 2009Music that makes me laugh, or makes me want to dance, is entertaining music.
Music that makes me think or admire the artist's skills, is good music.
Music that makes me cry is Great Music. Rare.
clock | September 21, 2009Seven keys to building healthy online community
Is your work cited in journals which are not ISI listed? Publish or Perish
God And Prosperity - Ronald Bailey sums up a new paper by Gregory Paul in the journal Evolutionary Psychology.
Why the news media became irrelevant--and how social media can help
UCLA Art | Sci Center & Lab - UCLA Art/Sci Center promotes Third Culture: collaboration between (media) art & (bio/nano) sciences.
How Bad Papers Get Published in Good Journals
Begging meerkat pups
Sea Stars Grow Faster as Water Warms
AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads - In 1993, you couldn't…
clock | September 20, 2009In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
- Abram L. Urban
clock | September 20, 2009Totally copying Chris' idea, let me do this experiment - put here the choice links that I posted on Twitter over the past week. Does not include links I "Liked" on FriendFeed or Facebook, just links I tweeted or retweeted over the last seven days, roughly in chronological order:
Michelle Malkin and the anatomy of the 2 million protester lie
Blogs & Clouds -- The Real-time Web Takes Another Step Forward
What Is Socialism in 2009?
Defying Gravity (but not the unforgiving reality of the television market)
Book Review: Islands in the Cosmos
In a Shark's Tooth, a New Family Tree
One Injury, 10…
clock | September 19, 2009In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
- Abigail Van Buren
clock | September 18, 2009It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.
- A. M. Rosenthal
clock | September 18, 2009If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are certainly aware that PLoS has started making article-level metrics available for all articles.
Today, we added one of the most important sets of such metrics - the number of times the article was downloaded. Each article now has a new tab on the top, titled "Metrics". If you click on it, you will be able to see the numbers of HTML, XML and PDF downloads, a graph of downloads over time and a link to overall statistics for the field, the journal, and PLoS as a whole.
Mark Patterson explains (also here and here), what it all means:
We believe…
clock | September 17, 2009Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
- A. E. Houseman
clock | September 17, 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 Kevin Emamy from CiteULike to answer a few questions.
Hi, Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Tell us more about CiteULike - what is it, how does it work, where did you get the idea to develop it?
CiteULike is a quick and simple way to save references where one finds them (online), a highly effective social filter of…
clock | September 17, 2009
Just a few updates on the progress in the organization of ScienceOnline2010 to those of you who do not follow me (or scio10) on Twitter.
The main event - the actual sessions of the conference - will be held, like last two years, in the beuatiful building of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (and publisher of American Scientist). The main conference program will occur on Saturday, January 16th and half of Sunday, January 17th, 2010. Breakfast, lunch, tea and coffee will be catered there on both days.
As we did every year, we will have an Early Bird Dinner on Thursday night. This is…
clock | September 17, 2009The latest edition of Change of Shift is up at Medic 999
I and the Bird #109 is up on Madras Ramblings
clock | September 16, 2009Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we will make the goal.
- Jerome P. Fleishman
clock | September 16, 2009A) If you click on any individual post on any Scienceblogs.com blog, you will see new sharing buttons on the bottom which make it very easy for you to, with a single click, send the link to that post to Twitter, Facebook and other social networking services (or e-mail to friends).
B) There is a new page on Scienceblogs.com - this one - where you can see all the comments made recently on all of our blogs. And, lo and behold, they are not all on Pharyngula posts! Once you scroll down and read them all, just refresh the page to see the new ones. Click and add your own comments. Get to know the…
clock | September 16, 2009There are 15 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:
Molecular Phylogeny and Description of the Novel Katablepharid Roombia truncata gen. et sp. nov., and Establishment of the Hacrobia Taxon nov:
Photosynthetic eukaryotes with a secondary plastid of red algal…