Category Archives: Carnivals

It’s the World Oceans Day

So, it is fitting that Carnival of the Blue kicks off today. The first edition (already huge!) is up on Blogfish. Lots of great posts!

Space Out!

The Carnival of Space #6 – ISDC Edition – is up on Music of the Spheres.

Skeptic’s Circle is up

It’s Thursday, so it’s that time of week for Thursday to host the Circle.

Today’s carnivals

Tangled Bank #81 is up on Behavioral Biology Blog (darn, I forgot to send my entry this time).
Grand Rounds Vol 3., No. 37 are up on Inside Surgery.
Pediatric Grand Rounds 2:4 are up on Adventures of An Awesome (Sometimes) Mother.
Bio::Blogs #11 is up on Nodalpoint.
The Festival of the Trees 12 – Meditations – is up on Arboreality.

EduBlogging of the week

The Carnival Of Education #122 is up on Educaton Wonks.
Carnival of Homeschooling #75 is up on HomeSchoolBuzz.

AnthroBlogging of the Week

15th edition of the Four Stone Hearth is up on Testimony of the spade

Carnival of the Liberals #40

Dr. Snedley, the Mr.Hyde to Dr.Biobrain’s Dr.Jeckyll (confused yet?) has taken over the blog and compiled the latest Carnival of the Liberals accompanied by his right-wing snark!

EnviroBlogging of the week

Carnival of the Green #80 is up on Groxie

NeuroBlogging of the Week

Encephalon #24 is up on The Phineas Gage Fan Club

Invertebrate Blogging of the Month

Circus of the Spineless #21 is up on 10000 Birds

GenBlogging of the week

Double-dose today:
Mendel’s Garden #15 – Summer Reading Edition – is up on The Daily Transcript
Gene Genie #7 is up on Eye on DNA.

HIV/AIDS blogging of the Month

International carnival of pozitivities #12 is up HIV HEALTH AND SUPPORT NETWORK COMMUNITTY NEWS

MathBlogging of the Month

Carnival of Mathematics #9 is up on JD2718.

Plants, Animals, People…

The Festival of the Trees #12 – Meditations – is up on Arboreality.
Friday Ark #141 is up on Modulator.
Scientiae #7 – How We Are Hungry – is up on FemaleCSGradStudent

Space is Amazing

The Carnival of Space # 5 is up on Why Homeschool.

Nursing Blogging of the week

Change of Shift: Volume 1, No. 25 is up on Emergiblog

I And The Bird #50

Welcome to the Fiftieth edition of I And The Bird. It’s been a while since I last hosted an edition of this carnival (#19) and it has obviously grown a lot since then. With such diversity of posts, I decided it was impossible to categorize them, so they are presented here in the order I received them. So, to cut my unimportant intro short, let’s dig in:
Grrrl of Living The Scientific Life reports on a conservation triumph story in The Return of the Rimatara Lory.
The Ridger of The Greenbelt took pictures of some goslings walking around looking like little feathered dinosaurs (post in two parts): Dino babies and Geese in the summer.
YC of the Bird Ecology Study Group wrote about an Adult koel feeding a juvenile. “This is a strange situation where the feeding should be done by the juvenile’s foster parent, the crow.”
Dr. Jeff Wells of the Boreal Bird Blog discovered Boreal birds In Bush’s Backyard, i.e., on the grounds of the White House.
Going birding with Duncan (Ben Cruachan Blog) sounds like great fun: Dirty work at the crossroads.
Sometimes one sees the most birds on those days when one is “not seriously looking”. This happened to Rob of Rob’s Idaho Perspective the other day. The Pied-bellied Grebe with chicks was not the only bird he saw, either: Casual Birding, Great Results.
Bill Eley of Gulf Coast Bird Observatory tries to stay away from politics, but this one is important: Another aspect to the ‘border fence’: “The proposed fence will plow through some of the most unique and valuable habitat in North America.”
Many have commented on the adoption of a chick by a pair of gay male flamingoes. Greg Laden goes the distance by explaining the Ultimate Causes, Proximate Mechanisms and putting the story in the context of evolutionary theory.
Dana of Backyard Birding reports sad news: Bird Expert Clark Moore dies.
John Trapp of Birds Etcetera searched the ‘birdwatching’ category on Amazon.com and discovered some… let’s say ‘unusual’ books listed there:Strange But True.
Celeste Pinheiro aka Wyldthang (Dzonoqua’s Whistle) heard the divine song of a Thrush: The Thrushes Arrive.
Bevson of Murmuring trees was lucky – she saw a Yellow-billed Loon: Surprise!
All’s well that ends well. Robin and Roger of Dharma Bums had quite a crisis at hand in Of All The Nest Boxes…In All The World, but they managed to solve it with some knowledge and ingenuity.
Rick Wright of Aimophila Adventures took some more great bird pictures in Panama: Panama: Purty Pitchers.
Jochen of Bell Tower Birding finds musical associations when confronted with an odd-looking Yellow Warbler: Doin’ the Britney.
WrenaissanceWoman of Wrenaissance Reflections has an easy answer to the question Why maintain a backyard wildlife habitat?
From Drew at the Nemesis Bird, sound advice for everyone, especially a rank amateur like me: 10 Ways to See more Birds.
Liza from The Egret’s Nest is Ravin’ about Ravens, one of my favourite birds. Great shots!
Lisa, the Bird Nerd, is still looking for the elusive Tri-Color, but one can learn a lot from a two-colored bird instead as well: On the hunt for Tri-colored Blackbirds.
Susannah A. of Wanderin’ Weeta posted some great shots of a Great Blue Heron in Great Blue Heron, Gunderson Slough.
Amazing close-up shots of Red-Tailed Hawks by Jayne of Journey Through Grace in Beauty in the trees.
On Trevor’s Birding blog, a pictorial view of the ontogeny of a male Rufous Whistler.
Patrick of The Hawk Owl’s Nest wrote a Book Review: The Complete Birder by Jack Connor.
Roger and Liz (Words and Pictures) had a great birding trip while in the Scottish Highlands, listing more than a hundred species they spotted there: Highland Hundred (plus four).
Mike of 10000 birds, the founder and General Editor of this fine carnival, got out of the City to the Long Island Sound for a great day of birding: Turnstone Turn-out.
Scottcatskill of Lovely dark and deep may have just saved a hurt bird’s life: Almost Squished Wood Thrush (and a fox).
“Early last week the gulls started arriving in Arctic Bay.” That is how Clare (The House & other Arctic musings) starts his post: Nauja – The difference a day makes.
Paul Ollig of The Wandering Tattler finally got to see a Painted Redstart and has pictures to prove it: One Bird at a Time.
Who is eating the Brood 13 cicadas? Cuckoo For Cicada Puffs!. Where? Cicadas are on the Menu. Who wrote this? The Birdfreak Team of the Birdfreak Birding Blog.
Pamela Martin of Thomasburg Walks was walking around the field and made a big discovery, with interesting evolutionary implications: I’ll sing what I want to sing. “The story of a bird singing the song of another species–in a song duel with a bird of yet another colour.”
Nuthatch of Bootstrap Analysis tries to evaluate the effects of exceedingly long ‘Easter Freeze’ in the Eastern USA on migrants: Where I’ve been & who I’ve been seeing.
Rob Fergus (The Birdchaser) knows my weakness for clocks (if I had more walls and less books, I’d have more clocks), but I never really wanted the Audubon Bird Clock. I’d much rather have the clock Rob proposes instead.
A good time for birding during the night and the following morning at Rock Creek Park Bioblitz for John of A DC Birding Blog.
John Riutta is a Born Again Bird Watcher. Why should an amateur join a professional birders’ society? Or read the ornithological scientific journals the way John does? Find out in High Societies.
James is birding in Tanzania and it is not easy to post (especially the pictures) from there, so it took a couple of days until this saw the light of day, but just in time for the inclusion in this week’s edition of the carnival: Camel Safari to Lake Natron.
I hope you enjoyed the wealth, quality and diversity of posts in this week’s edition of the carnival. The next edition will be hosted by Rob on The Birdchaser on June 14th, 2007 so send your entries at: birdchaser AT hotmail DOT com.

EduBlogging of the week

The Carnival Of Education: Week #121 is up on The Education Wonks
Carnival of Homeschooling, the Alaska edition, is up on About:Homeschooling

An exciting new carnival!

Carnival of the Blue:

World Ocean Day is June 8, and blogfish will host an ocean blog event. Please send links to some of your best recent work, and I’ll post a list of links together with a brief comment.
This is a chance for all of you ocean bloggers out there to come together in one place. I’ve asked around, and there seems to be enough interest to call this a carnival, as the first installment in a regular (monthly) event. Dare we call it carnival of the blue?
Send your links to mpowell at oceanconservancy dot org, and I look forward to hearing from all of you ocean bloggers that I know, along with (hopefully) some that I don’t know.

Carnivalia

I And The Bird is not the only carnival coming soon. You should also send your submissions to Panta Rei, Mendel’s Garden, Encephalon, Circus of the Spineless, Festival of the Trees, Oekologie and Gene Genie very soon…

MedBlogging of the Week

Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 36 are up on From MedSkool

EnviroBlogging of the week

Carnival of the Green #79 is up on Sustainablog.

I And The Bird – last call for submissions

You have only about a day and half to send me your entries for the 50th edition of the wonderful carnival I And The Bird. The deadline is tomorrow night, May 29th at 11:59pm EDT. E-mail: coturnix AT gmail DOT com

Medical Imaging of the Month

Radiology Grand Rounds #11 are up on Sumer’s Radiology Site.

Today’s carnivals

Philosophia Naturalis #10 is up on Daily Irreverence.
Friday Ark #140 is up on Modulator.

Today’s carnivals

Skeptic’s Circle #61 is up on Skepchick.
Carnival of Space #4 is up on Universe Today.
Carnivalesque #27 is up on Aardvarchaeology.

Today’s carnivals, vol.2

The latest Four Stone Hearth is up on Greg Laden’s blog.
4th Postdoc Carnival is up on Minor Revisions.
Carnival of Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Mental Health Journeys is up on Mental Health Source Page.

Today’s carnivals

Tangled Bank #80 is up on Geek Counterpoint
Carnival of Education #120 is up on I Thought a Think.
Carnival of Homeschooling #73 is up on The Lilting House.
Scroll down this page to see the latest Carnival of the Liberals.
And don’t forget to send me your entries for next week’s I And The Bird: coturnix AT gmail DOT com

Carnival of the Liberals #39

Well, it’s been a while…. since I hosted the CotL #3 about a year and a half ago. It’s ripe time to do it again. Not that it was ever easy to choose ten best written and most creative posts out of dozens of great entries! I spent the last few days agonizing and wishing I could include 20 or 30 or 40…but rules are rules, so here it goes, the brand new Carnival of the Liberals:
The Ridger of The Greenbelt digs for deeper causes in Not slavery – abolition:

Upsetting tyrants is noble, isn’t it?

Charles H. Green knows that Trust Matters and right now you should trust me that his post is well worth your time to read: Does Business Squeeze the Poor?:

Their arguments have the sound of 18th century English political theorists writing about natural law.

(Th)read carefully when Hell’s handmaiden goes subversively satirical before turning deadly serious: Guns and killin? And knives and garden tools, cars, rat poison?

Even good, well adjusted, happy people can be volatile sometimes.

Dave of Daveawayfromhome has a nine-point plan for Iraq. You may not agree with each point, but it will surely make you think (out of the box): My baby’s nation wont return my calls, redux:

The Iraqis are not a bunch of children.

GreenSmile of The Executioners Thong has a radical idea: Strangers in a strange land:

Only adults should ever study such dangerous stuff.

Faith of the gorgeous That is so Queer… blog wrote a post in two parts, one going in, the other pulling out (yes, you have to learn in slow, easy steps): Logic…or, ‘Hello? Is this thing on?’ and Oh no they didn’t:

Essentially it’s about the big abstinence pull-out…

Zeno is almost Halfway There, or, actually was 100% there in 1980 when the story takes place: Farewell to Falwell:

He pulled all of our strings simultaneously, carrying the unwilling along with the perfervid true believers.

Romeo Vitelli of Providentia provides a lesson in history: Becoming Lili:

The resulting furor when this reached the media was all that could be expected.

Steppen Wolf is The skeptical alchemist and she shows how everything is interconnected in, well, every country in the world. Perhaps a look at Italy can help jumpstart some inquiries closer to home, wherever that may be: Map of power in the Country of Jokes:

No, it is not going to be cheesy: it is going to be scary.

Now we can finally understand the root causes of all of Jon Swift’s problems: My Mother Is a Terrible Person:

Thank goodness my father made an honest woman out of her and saved me from being a bastard.

Everything you wanted to know about the Carnival of the Liberals you can find on its homepage. The next host will be the Grand Champion of the Carnival, Dr.Biobrain, so start sending your entries today using this easy submission form.

Grand Brains

Encephalon #23 is up on Madam Fathom
Grand Rounds Vol. 3, No. 35 are up on ImpactED Nurse

Green Kids

Carnival of the Green # 78 is up on Everydaytrash
Pediatric Grand Rounds 2.3 are up on Ami Chopine

GenBlogging of the week

Gene Genie #7 is up on Gene Sherpas.

Mothers and Others

Scientiae #6 is up on On Being a Scientist and a Woman.

SpaceBlogging of the fortnight

Carnival of Space #3 is up on Universe Today

Nightingales – both of the Florence and of the feathered kind

Change of Shift: Volume 1, Number 24 is up on Nurse Ratched’s Place
I and the Bird #49: the Wordchaser, is up on Via Negativa. In two weeks, the 50th edition will be hosted here by me, so start sending your entries to: Coturnix AT gmail DOT com.

CotL – call for submissions

The 39th edition of the Carnival of the Liberals (the peer-reviewed one) will be hosted by me here next Wednesday. Please send your entries by using the blogcarnival.com automated form. The deadline is Monday at 11:59pm EDT.

Today’s carnivals

The Carnival Of Education: Week 119 is up on The Education Wonks.
Carnival of the Infosciences #71 is up on Confessions of a Science Librarian.
The 72nd Carnival of Homeschooling: In My Backyard is up on PalmTree Pundit.

Oekologie #5

The latest edition of Oekologie is a real feast – a chockfull of great posts wrapped around the snippets of ancient and medieaval Arabic science for the history buffs, courtesy of Jeremy Bruno. Enjoy!

Green Rounds

Grand Rounds (Vol 3, No. 34) are up on Medical Humanities Blog
Carnival of the Green #77 is up on Natural Collection

Carnivalia

Panta Rei #5 – Chemical Sciences – is up on Nonoscience. Next edition is a Life Sciences special, planned for May 28, 2007 also at Nonoscience.
Carnival of the Godless #66 is up on The Atheist Experience.
Oekologie #5 – last call for submissions for tomorrow’s edition on The Voltage Gate.
The next Carnival of the Liberals will be hosted by me on May 23rd.
The International Carnival of Pozitivities (HIV/AIDS) is now accepting submissions for its 12th edition to be published in June, 2007. on HIV Health and Support Network Community News

Learning in the Great Outdoors!

The first and the second editions of the new Learning in the Great Outdoors carnival are already up on Alone On A Limb. It’s time to set up the homepage with archives, instructions for submissions and hosting, etc.

Today’s carnivals

The 60th Skeptic’s Circle is up on Infophilia.
The Carnival of Space #2 is up on Why Homeschool.
Friday Ark #138 is up on The Modulator

Today’s carnivals

Tangled Bank #79 is up on Epigenetics News
Four Stone Hearth #4 is up on Anthropology 2.0
118th edition of the Carnival of Education is up on NYC Educator
38th Carnival of the Liberals is up on That is so queer….
The latest Carnival of Homeschooling is up on Homeschoolblogger

Grand Green Garden

Mendel’s Garden #14 is up on Epigenetics News
Grand Rounds, Volume 3, No 33 are up on The Blog That Ate Manhattan
Carnival of the Green #76 is up on Eco-Worrier

NeuroBlogging of the Week

Encephalon #22 is up on John Hawks Anthropology blog

Mike has a great idea

Three out of ten Republican presidential candidates raised hands in the recent debate indicating they do not believe in evolution. Jason has an excellent round-up of responses (Arianna Huffington rocks!) with some good comments by readers as well. How can you help combat scientific ignorance? If your blog is NOT a science blog, try to do what Mike suggests and link to five science-related posts every week.
There is plenty of stuff here at scienceblogs.com, but you can also use this page when you are looking for science posts, especially the science-related carnivals listed at the very bottom of that page. Carnivals act as filters, showcasing the best that science/nature/medical/environmental blogosphere has to offer on any given week.

Gene Genie

Gene Genie, the carnival of human genetics, now has a homepage and the Sixth issue is now up on ScienceRoll

Panta Rei

Panta Rei is back with a new concept. Send your entries and apply to host.

Carnival of the Liberals update

Next Carnival of the Liberals will not be held here as previously announced. I will host on the 23rd of May instead. Next week the carnival will be hosted by That Is So Queer… instead.

HIV/AIDS blogging of the month

International Carnival of Pozitivities #11 is up on Living In The Bonus Round