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skookumchick | January 17, 2009So the day is getting on, and the bloggers are congregating around the plugs because their laptops are running out of juice, and I need to confess I've been taking notes all the time but I need to digest the notes more, and the wireless is flaky. So liveblogging is occurring offline, to be uploaded sometime in the near future. Be secure in the knowledge that we are typing for you, and are hoping to share very soon. :-) B4N.
skookumchick | January 17, 2009So ScienceWoman and I will be sharing live-blogging duties today, at least until our batteries give out. We're both starting at the Open Access publishing session, although I was also intrigued by Peggy Kolm's session about science fiction on science blogs. I'll have to catch up with her later.
Also, please note: this is liveblogging. There may be grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, unfinished sentences. But it's hot off the press. I'll try to come back and clean things up afterwards. FYI.
I wanted to go to the open access talk because my department is talking about publication needs…
skookumchick | January 17, 2009OMG I am at ScienceOnline! In (also cold) RTP! And I've now met ScienceWoman! And let me say she is as lovely in person as she is online. And I've met a whole bunch of other folks, but am still trying to sort out the politics of pseudonymity. Hopefully I'll get to post some official blogger photos later. But in the meantime, both SW's and my sessions are this morning. Wish us luck! :-)
sciencewoman | January 16, 2009
I'm sitting at the edge of the auditorium at the Sigma Xi Center, comfortably sandwiched between Scicurious and Christina Pikas. I'm listening to Rebecca Skloot describe how a creative writing class assignment to write about a place and her response about the freezer in the Colorado State University Veterinary School morgue launched her on a career in science writing. Now, she's introducing the main topic of her talk (as well as the topic of her new book) "The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks" And we're getting to hear world-premiere excerpts from the book to be published next year.
Skloot'…
laelaps | January 16, 2009Finally, after a very strange day, I am able to sit down and relax. Last night I had intended to go to bed early to get enough sleep for the drive down to North Carolina but, for a variety of reasons, I did not get as much rest as I wanted to. There wasn't much I could do about this, though, and my wife and I hit the road at 12:30 AM.
Except the stops for gas, I drove 9 and 1/2 hours straight. Rather than heading straight for the hotel, though, my wife and I started out day in North Carolina at the NC Zoo, a location that was a lot farther away than I had anticipated. Many animals (polar bear…
aardvarchaeology | January 15, 2009The fifty-eighth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Moneduloides. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology!
Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 28 January, two weeks from now 11 February. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for hosting. No need to be an anthro pro.
And check out the new Skeptics' Circle!
laelaps | January 15, 2009Late tonight (or is it early tomorrow?) Mrs. Laelaps* and I will start on our drive down to North Carolina for the Science Online '09 conference! We'll be making stops at the NC Zoo and the Duke University Lemur Center along the way, but when we recover from Friday's traveling we'll be ready for the great conference sessions on Saturday and Sunday. (I will be co-moderating two back-to-back sessions on the first day; "Teaching College Science: Blogs and Beyond" and "The Web and the History of Science".)
It is going to be a very busy weekend, but I look forward to seeing old friends** and…
clock | January 14, 2009Can't say "welcome a new SciBling" because he's not new! PalMD is now flying solo! He moved out of the fraternity house and rented his own house: White Coat Underground. Go say Hello, bookmark, susbcribe, update your feeds, whatever you like to do, but keep reading Pal.
aardvarchaeology | January 13, 2009It's been over half a year since the last de-lurk. Aard currently has over 150 returning visitors daily (out of about 730 uniques). Since not everyone checks in every day, this translates to several hundred -- possibly a thousand -- regulars who read the blog at least once a week. So, everybody, please comment away, as briefly or verbosely as you like, and do consider telling us a little about yourself!
skookumchick | January 13, 2009So, we may have mentioned we're going to ScienceOnline 2009, which starts on Friday; ScienceWoman and I have our respective sessions on Saturday with our respective co-facilitators.
I've been snowed under with the start of classes, some papers due, some abstracts due, a meeting last week, and, of course, this upcoming event. But I'm getting a little caught up (even if this is a scrambled post), and saw discussion of being a blogging ally at a couple of places of note:
In particular, Samia blogged about how others could be good allies within her post about race and science blogging (before…
sciencewoman | January 12, 2009It feels like forever since I wrote a blog post (although the new Movable Type platform informs me that it's been less than a week). In that time, I've found myself a bit snowed in by the start of a new semester and my mom's successful(?) ankle replacement surgery. It will probably be a few more days before I dig myself out a bit, but when I do, I have a couple of posts already gestating. I promise to bring you the results of my "time off between semesters" poll, and my thoughts on Mama, Ph.D.. Plus, I'm sure that Alice and I will both share some reflections from the ScienceOnline conference…
skookumchick | January 8, 2009In case you haven't heard, Scienceblogs is upgrading to a new system over the weekend. So posting and commenting will be out of commission from 1 PM EST Friday until further notice (yikes!).
But that's okay, because SW and I are both offline a lot this weekend - I'll be driving through real snow from Detroit, after having the chance to rifle through the Society of Women Engineers archives on their dime. Any requests for what I should look up?
In the meantime, enjoy reading some cool non-Sb blogs, and have a fab weekend.
clock | January 8, 2009My year of flossing:
I flossed again last night.
I'm still waiting for that sense of ambient smugness (my loose translation here of arete, at least as it relates to the Artistotelian aspects of oral hygiene) that usually accompanies my occasional forays into a life of virtue. I think back here to my days spent as a jogger of sorts in the early 1990's, days well remembered by some friends of mine if only for the gaily-colored yellow tights I would don before pounding up and down the streets of Sunnyvale, Calif. (In fact to this day the cognomen "Bananaman" is still thrown up in my face by…
aardvarchaeology | January 8, 2009Daniel of Neuroanthropology has made an excellent roundup of last year's best anthro blogging. Check it out!
clock | January 7, 2009
From Blog For Darwin:
February 12th-15th, 2009 participating bloggers around the world will be celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth (February 12th, 1809) with a BLOG SWARM, in which posts will be aggregated on BLOG FOR DARWIN to be kept as a resource for educators, students, and others.
CLICK HERE or read below to learn how you can participate!
Yes, there's a month left, but I hope you participate.
clock | January 7, 2009Christina Pikas gave an interesting talk recently with the title: Detecting Communities in Science Blogs:
Detecting Communities in Science Blogs
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: communication scholarly)
What she did was perform an analysis of link connections between science blogs to see if any clusters form. After some prompting, she wrote a blog post to explain the study a little more: A Structural Exploration of the Science Blogosphere: Director's Cut:
The clusters were related to subject areas - very broad subject areas. One question in my mind was how much people…
jane | January 7, 2009I just found out about this very cool idea, a sort of a call to arms to address those old, tired statements "where are the women in tech? why aren't there any women in tech? there are no women in tech! there are no women tech pioneers/innovators/role models because women don't like tech/are not genetically predisposed to be good at tech/can't hack it in our little boys' world".....sorry, got a bit carried away there. Anyway. I give you: Ada Lovelace Day.
From the pledge site:
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Women's…
aardvarchaeology | January 7, 2009Having moved recently to a house wired only with telephone copper, my family and I are now into our fourth week without an internet connection. It's a really frustrating way to learn just how dependent we've become on the net.
For one thing, we don't own a printed telephone directory, and our only street map of greater Stockholm is in the car. We can't do on-line banking, and we can't mail-order stuff. I can read email on my smartphone, but my wife's going nuts over being cut off. And simple information searching -- woah, I miss Wikipedia five times a day. Suddenly we have to use our printed…
skookumchick | January 6, 2009Hear ye, hear ye, an official congratulations to Science Woman whose awesome post "A reckless proposal, or 'Scientists are people too, and it's time we started treating them that way'"has been included in Open Lab 2008. W00T! If you haven't already, go read her post, and give her some comment love, will you?
Rock on, SW!
clock | January 5, 2009Hotel Scienceblogs, that is. Do you remember David Dobbs and the blog Smooth Pebbles here on Sb? Well, David left the Borg, blogged for a while at his own non-Sb version of Smooth Pebbles and now he's back - with a new blog and a new title - Neuron Culture.
Welcome back, SciBling!