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  When Jessica Palmer gave a talk at the "Unruly Democracy" conference last month, she gave what appears, from her after-the-fact blog post excerpted here, to have been a semi-contrarian take on blogospheric civiility: What I did endeavor to convey in my brief talk was the difficulty of blogging…
As I mentioned last week, I spent yesterday on a panel/in a workshop at Harvard's Kennedy School, "Unruly Democracy: Science Blogs and the Public Sphere." It was an excellent day - I met many interesting people and had some great conversations. Plus, I got to meet Dr. Isis in the flesh! Woohoo!…
The 12 Days of Christmas | The Language of Bad Physics "On the fifth day of Christmas, My PI gave to me: Five Ci-ta-tions... 4 revisions, 3 rejected drafts, 2 data sets, And a pile of papers to read." (tags: academia education silly music blogs kavassalis) A is for Ackbar | brandonpeat.com "…
slacktivist: Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? "Part of the answer to that question is that our newspapers are being asked to do something they were never designed to do and something they are fundamentally and structurally incapable of doing: they're being asked to provide…