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clock | October 21, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Yale students call for OA.
Open access: are publishers 'double dipping'?
IHME/Harvard study wins competition for best open-access paper
Statue of George Mason (drafted the Virginia bill of rights) dressed up to support OA.
A Writing Revolution - almost universal literacy => almost universal authorship.
NCSU graduate…
clock | October 20, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Seasonal blues - as a SAD sufferer I agree - spring and summer rock; fall and winter...try to survive.
Byte Size Biology: Weekly poll: favorite wolf metric? - (yup, scientometrics)
This is morbid and spectacular: Photos of remote birds killed by our trash - how we are killing the world with our plastic!
Downie-Schudson…
clock | October 19, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Open Access Week: a researcher's perspective
On an Impulse: SFN Neuroblogging
Research Brief: Library savings from full flip to open access via article processing fees: about two-thirds savings
Reexamining Ardipithecus ramidus in Light of Human Origins
Looking at the genitals of naked mole rats
100th Open Access Mandate…
clock | October 18, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption.
@cshirky: "After teaching 10 years, the only good measure of student progress I know is the number of open problems they can successfully characterize."
STELLA! Science, Technology & Engineering Library Leaders in Action!
How Twitter Can Save Your Life in a Zombie…
clock | October 17, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
I tweeted a lot today. I was mesmerized by the rich tweetstream emanating from the National Science Writers conference in Austin - see today's program and tune in tomorrow for more.
Unfortunately, there was not that much tweeting from the ASBH (bioethics) conference in D.C., but I will get the first-hand detailed report…
clock | October 16, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
FIND's Filmmaker Forum 2009: Getting an Education about Film Festivals - 'Film Independent's Filmmaker Forum: Cracking the educational market & the new role of film festivals'.
'Calvin Trillin accurately and hilariously explains how Wall St. started to fail when smart people went there':Wall Street Smarts
'Is a Big Pool…
clock | October 15, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
Framing the Mexican wolf debate.
Beagle Project Blog: Darwin and the Adventure: media linkfest.
10 Huge Successes Built On Second Ideas misses Flickr....
Why I am getting both seasonal and swine flu vaccines and why you should, too.
Science Got Ardi Wrong or: The Enigma of Ardipithecus.
In which I have seen the future of…
clock | October 14, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people):
The Audacity of Greed: How Private Health Insurers Just Blew Their Cover by Robert Reich: "Health insurers have just made the best argument yet about why a public insurance option is necessary."
RT @Caterina: Things on the internet grow fungally, not virally. The metaphor is completely wrong.
Open Access 101 - new animated…
clock | October 13, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Blinded by the Light - ecological light pollution.
"Newsroom as cafe is not a concept but a practice in the Czech Republic" - Full Throttle to Hyperlocal News in Czech Republic
Thanks @justarikia for a re-do of my homepage. I love it!
Guardian gagged from reporting parliament and When is a secret not a secret? and Mugging the rich bastard lawyers.
J-School: The Next Generation
On the future of scientific communication - "Within the next decade, papers will be resembling press releases...", Interesting to note in…
clock | October 12, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
In which I have seen the future of science, and it is male - first issue of Eureka extremely male and even sexist!?
Sell the Vatican, Feed the World - Sarah Silverman's ambitious plan for feeding the world (video).
"Krugman on "destructive power of bad ideas" and how falling dollar can help economic recovery:" Misguided Monetary Mentalities
The podcast of the This American Life healthcare Explainer is now up: More Is Less - Gavin Yamey of PLoS has a 2sec appearance.
Google Wave: A Complete Guide
Announcing the…
clock | October 11, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
'Male slashes female's throat in UCLA chemistry lab': Violence in a UCLA Lab
'Check out these gorgeous photos of small things': Nikon Small World 2009
Quoting 'Psychics' Like Experts: How Low Can News Judgement Go? - loved to see James Randi himself post a comment there!
Compare it to this article on the same topic - 'psychic' financial advisers: Paranormal Wall Street
Women to stop liking Sean Connery?
The Times' new magazine about science: Eureka
Avoiding the Community Manager Superstar
Uselessness is in the eye…
clock | October 10, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons To Touch Paintings
A Harvard Skirmish in the Copyright Wars - 'Do your lecture notes violate your prof's copyright?'
60 people ready to discuss ScienceOnline2010 on FriendFeed
Why Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
PLoS ONE in the NYT twice this week: Aerial View: Albatrosses Following a Killer Whale and Paper Challenges Ideas About 'Early Bird' Dinosaur
The era of objectivity is over - 'Pro journalism didn't self-correct. It doubled down on neutrality'
The psychology of…
clock | October 9, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Are you asleep? Exploring the mind's twilight zone - 'How do you know you're not sleeping right now?'
50 Useful iPhone Apps for Science Students & Teachers
OA Week at the University of Belgrade in Serbia
Let's have the ScienceOnline2010 program finalized in ten days
Science class at SI Academy gets worldwide play (with Miss Baker)
The 'WiFi At Conferences' Problem
Uses of Nobel Causes: the case for Obama
- RT @ezraklein Obama also awarded Nobel prize in chemistry. "He's just got great chemistry," says Nobel…
clock | October 8, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Geobloggers - who is coming to #scio10? There is a session proposed that you may want to join in
How @TomLevenson rakes Megan McArdle over hot coals on disingenuous science reporting: It's not that McArdle can't read...it's that she can't (won't) think: part four (and last, thank FSM). (part 4, links to 1,2,3)
Spoor of South African Dinos Analyzed
BLT Kama Sutra
Rules to Eat By
Darwin: 3 Poems
Lisa Sanders was on State Of The Nation at noon at wunc 91.5FM today.
Book Review: Don't Be SUCH A Scientist
Open Access…
clock | October 7, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?
The Paleo Paper Challenge in the Blogosphere (see also)
RT @anthonymobile: The Open Laboratory 2008 anthology of science blogs is one of the most fun things i've read in ages
Uses and Abuses of Nobel Causes
"One day it's bound to happen. The same person will get an igNobel one day and then a Nobel the following week. For the same research."
Review of "Creation" by science educator James Williams
2009 #Nobel09 Prize in Chemistry: *really* a chemistry prize…
clock | October 6, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Genes, Categories and Species, by Jody Hey, a book review.
Some wicked multimedia tools...
In the past, when a country switches from dollar to euro we invent a reason to bomb it. Too late now: The demise of the dollar
Immersion In Nature Makes Us Nicer
These are @justarikia's Top 5 Favorite Music Videos Involving Robots - what are yours? 'We are the robot'?
Our screwed-up malpractice system. Whose fault is that? Let's try 'nobody'.
How to sell news on the web: A checklist
Why Blog? A study
Darwin, 'Ardi', and the…
clock | October 5, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Warning, Revisited
How Twitter is changing the way wars are fought
Come hang out with me at ScienceOnline 2010
Nature Communications: A breakthrough for open access? (and discussion)
Using tequila to make diamonds - igNobel: Scientific Diagrams - How not to do it
2009 medicine Nobelists - their PLoS publications - they have all three published in PLoS.
Why Does Daniel Lyons Unnecessarily Opt-in To Stupid? (Contribution #1 of this)
Blogger Outreach Manifesto
Balloon Animals! (video) ROFL - is this Stuart Pivar's…
clock | October 4, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Why Chicago Failed To Win The Olympics - because nobody but Americans wants yet another Games here....
I Unleash My Journalism Students To Critique Newsweek's Daniel Lyons
The discovery of heredity - some ideas we take for granted are pretty recent discoveries.
Rethinking the Shape of Everyday Life
Changed your mind on 'attending', 'maybe attending' or 'not attending' ScienceOnline2010? Change your response
Twitter.org? and building models for social media
Sex Determination in Sea Monsters
Can your slides pass the…
clock | October 3, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
New SEAPLEX videos: The North Pacific Gyre - Miriam Goldstein Talks Plastic Aboard SEAPLEX and The Garbage Patch - Chelsea Rochman studies Salps with SEAPLEX
Journalism as capitalism
Google Rules - A high school principal tries to harness the precepts of What Would Google Do?
How to build a meandering river in your basement
Clock gene and moonlight help corals to co-ordinate a mass annual orgy
Brooks is wrong on Beck---very wrong
SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #138 - Ten challenges for open-access journals…
clock | October 2, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
igNobels 2009
China Is Wordless on Traumas of Communists' Rise
Turkey: student protester hurls shoe at IMF chief
Blogging a science conference: Interview with Alex Knoll
Friday Weird Science: The shark with two 'heads'
How Google Wave could transform journalism
Do Vaccines Cause Autism? Correlation vs. Causation: video1 and video2
The eScience revolution - Rensselaer researchers to create semantic Web platforms for massive scientific collaboration
M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree
Which university has the…