Blogging
clock | January 23, 2008
Pure Pedantry is a great blog. Jake writes some cool neuroscience stuff, and an occasional political post I disagree with (but not enough to start a blogwar). Kara Contreary has recently retired (though we'll see how long that lasts!) so Jake has been all alone and wondering what to do. Of course, he could just coast along, threating the primacy of Pharyngula in traffic due to his Britney Spears post that is so popular these days.
If people come to Pure Pedantry for Britney and then look around, you know what they are looking for...
Well, that is sorta what they will get. Sorta. Sex,…
clock | January 23, 2008Dave and Co. have been working hard over the past few months and now (actually on Saturday at the Conference) Dave announces that ResearchBlogging.org is live and in action! The BPR3 site, where the entire initiative was hashed out and built will continue to serve as the News Blog.
So, register your blog. Whenever you write a post about a peer-reviewed paper, put in the icon (if you want - you can make it invisible) and go to the RB site to resolve the DOI of the paper so it shows up in your post as a proper reference. Shortly after you publish the post, the link will show up on the…
awild | January 22, 2008New links for the sidebar:
Catalogue of Organisms - Christopher Taylor somehow has time to both complete a Ph.D. in spider systematics AND blog prolifically about all matters invertebrate and taxonomic. I like it because Taylor is a gifted writer and his blog is a fine read. Plus, I have a soft spot for Australians.
Getting Things Done in Academia - Myrmecologist extraordinaire Mike Kaspari bares all about how to thrive as a young scientist. Some of his more serious advice seems to involve beer consumption, so take it with a grain of salt (and some lime).
The Strobist - The brain is the…
clock | January 22, 2008The Science Communication Consortium presents:
DISCUSSION ON THE ROLES OF EMERGING MEDIA OUTLETS IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE
Thursday, JAN 31st, 7-8:30pm
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, East Building Seminar Room (1425 Madison Ave at 98th St, NYC)
A discussion of how science is communicated effectively - and ineffectively - through emerging media outlets, such as blogging, podcasts, online multimedia, and more.
Blogs, podcasts, and other new media outlets have changed the way people learn about scientific info, and shortened the shelf life of these stories. This immediacy of information…
clock | January 21, 2008During the Student blogging panel--from K to Ph D at the Conference (actually, the session I enjoyed the best of all - and that is not easy as all the sessions were fantastic), a point came up about the way universities are slowly changing their attitudes toward students blogging. Actually, one of the panelists, Sarah Wallace, is a direct beneficiary of a recent 180-degrees turn by Duke University. Instead of looking askance at student blogging, Duke is now actively encouraging students to write blogs about their research, providing them with the platform and tech support and faculty…
sciencewoman | January 21, 2008Mommy Monday is indefinitely delayed pending me actually getting last Thursday's lecture written for tomorrow. Given today's holiday and the corresponding lack of daycare, I suspect that Mommy Monday will return next week in it's regularly scheduled slot.
Next week I'll tell you about Minnow's birthday (it's Saturday the 26th), but after that I'm open to suggestions of topics.
sciencewoman | January 20, 2008Minnow's big adventure this weekend was attending the 2nd Annual NC Science Blogging Conference (and staying with one of my college roomies).
In the morning she went to the discussion on ethics in science blogging, lead by the incomparable Janet Stemwedel. Afterwards she had a little bonus discussion.
Then Minnow participated in a panel on Gender and Race in Science: Online and Offline, moderated by the excellent Zuska. Other panel participants were Karen Ventii of Science to Life and Pat Campbell of Fairer Science.
After a great box lunch, Minnow went to Dave Munger's session on Building…
aardvarchaeology | January 19, 2008
Whew, what a day! I've been to the Second NC Science Blogging Conference, and I've had a blast.
The best part was actually to meet loads and loads of blogging friends whom I'd only seen in pictures. Amazing to actually meet them, hug or shake hands, talk and laugh. I even listened in as Bora chatted in Serbian with a compatriot. These are the eighteen nineteen SciBlings I managed to bag (I'll put all those links in later, too tired & jet lagged now):
Tara of Aetiology
Evil Monkey of Neurotopia
Shelley of Retrospectacle
James of Island of Doubt
Sheril & Chris of The Intersection
Bora…
aardvarchaeology | January 17, 2008Anybody in the Ft Lauderdale area want to meet up some time 23-24 January? I'd like to befriend some natives!
I'm touching down at FLL at noon on Wednesday the 23rd and will be staying in Plantation. I'll be a tourist during Wednesday and Thursday, and then I'll attend the TAM 5.5 skeptical conference on Friday and Saturday.
aardvarchaeology | January 17, 2008Anybody in the Chapel Hill / Durham area want to meet up some time 20-22 January? I'd like to befriend some natives!
I'm attending the NC Science Blogging conference in Research Triangle Park on Saturday 19 January. After that, I'm staying on in Chapel Hill until Wednesday morning 23 Jan. I'm going to be a tourist during Sunday, Monday and most of Tuesday, and then I'm giving a talk about my research at UNC on Tuesday afternoon.
aardvarchaeology | January 16, 2008The thirty-second Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Testimony of the Spade. Archaeology and anthropology and anthropology and archaeology!
Also, don't miss the 78th Skeptics' Circle over at Skeptical Surfer.
retrospectacle | January 16, 2008There's a new way to gauge your importance on the 'Net, a little app in beta stage called QDOS. The forumula used to compile your QDOS number (which made me think of Erdos number) is a propriatary blend of Myspace, Facebook, activity, searches, popularity, blogging, online buying, chatting, and more.
"We're trying to find a way for the consumer to take ownership of their digital status," said Tom Ilobe, chief executive of Garlik (as in, "powerful stuff," one of its mottoes). "Businesses are doing it pretty well, but the consumer is in danger of being left out of the game. Their information is…
sciencetolife | January 14, 2008Suzanne E. Franks of Thus Spake Zuska and I are hosting a panel this coming weekend at the NC Science Blogging Conference, and we'd like your input. The title of the panel is "Gender and Race in Science Blogging".
For now you can participate at the conference wiki by submitting your questions and comments but we are planning to webcast the panel so that it will be possible for you to participate even if you aren't attending.
If you know of any great webcasting sites please let us know.
I will be one of the three panelists along with ScienceWoman and Pat Campbell of Fairer Science. Each…
awild | January 14, 2008...we had to move across town this weekend. The new house is not yet configured for internet, so it may be a few days until I'm back on track. In the meantime, here are some links to keep you entertained:
Asian Myrmecology, a new ant journal! The first volume is open-access.
An ecological menage a trois between Ants, Plants, and... Elephants?
Friday Ark #173 at The Modulator
The Ants of Fiji can be found online at antweb.org.
retrospectacle | January 13, 2008After much gnashing of teeth, I finally updated my blogroll. Sadly, I realized I hadn't done this in almost a year and many of the links were old and no longer around. So, I pruned those out and put in a bevy of shiny new informatorial chestnuts for your browsing pleasure! Enjoy!
(And feel free to let me know in the comments if I left out anyone I shouldn't have...)
neurophilosophy | January 12, 2008Over the past few days, the number of subscribers to my RSS feed has increased to over 1,000, even though the blog hasn't been updated since January 3rd.
I can, therefore, only attribute this to the news that one of my posts is to be featured in the forthcoming OpenLab 2007. Whatever the reason, welcome to any new subscribers who might be reading this. Blogging will resume as per usual soon.
clock | January 11, 2008Boris Hartl interviews Anton Zuiker , the manager of internal communications at Duke University Health System, founder of BlogTogether.org, and the co-organizer of the Science Blogging Conference. Excellent read.
clock | January 11, 2008If you look at the Program page on the wiki for the Science Blogging Conference, you will see, for the Saturday program, there are 12 excellent sessions, a panel and a talk. Each has a discussion page which you should edit to add your own thoughts, ideas and questions.
One of the sessions I expect to have a big draw, particularly with so many science teachers at the conference, is the session on Teaching Science: using online tools in the science classroom, led by a real pro on the topic - David Warlick. David already has an ongoing discussion of the session on his own blog where you are…
retrospectacle | January 9, 2008Yes its plague week, and yes I promised to post something today on the topic, but ironically (and inconveniently) I'm not feeling well. (Oooohh, maybe its Y. pestis? Maybe I should coat myself in mercury and hop in the oven...) So, I owe an extra post tomorrow on Plaguey goodness.
In the meantime, to satisfy your craving for the weird treatments of yore, check out this excellent post over at the ever-cantankerous and pithy Drugmonkey. The post details what was really in "Mrs Winlow's Soothing Syrup," which was given to teething newborns in the late 1800s.
It will come as no surprise to the…
aardvarchaeology | January 8, 2008
Felicia, Tor, Jesper, Johan, Thinker, Paddy, Kai, Lars, Martin R, Martin C. Photographs by friendly man at nearby table, shoppery by Lars.
Our latest Stockholm after-work blogmeet was way back in September. It was high time for another one! Good food, good company, silly jokes. And Paddy K hatched a plan: we're setting up a one-off Geek Fashion Blog Carnival!