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Oceanophilia: The Neuroscience of Emotion and the Ocean
But Does Twittering Really Sell Books?
Teabaggers attack Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel
Most popular “Best of” Twitter lists are hopelessly male. So take a look at the Best Women on Twitter lists: One, Two and Three: eclectic, excellent, exciting – that is ~1300 women to pick to follow. Or just follow the lists – perhaps they can break the Top 100 on the ‘most popular lists’ list!
When ‘we are the media,’ how does it change us or society?
Gorbachev on 1989
Science events in the Triangle this week
Publishers Weekly Cover Girl: Rebecca Skloot and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (HeLa) and an excerpt.
Heroina interneta (in Serbian)
NGOs as newsmakers: A new series on the evolving news ecosystem
The Font Kingdom: Search, Explore, Create, and Download Fonts for Free
Real Oklahoma Students Ace Citizenship Exam; Strategic Vision Survey Was Likely Fabricated
Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp’s websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals
Faster route to stem-like cells: All adult cells can be reprogrammed, researchers claim.
Why hyperlocal journalism is easier – and harder – in rural areas
WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS!…And Clean Your Stuff
Call for Submissions: Diversity in Science Carnival
Making Technology Work for People in the Developing World – World-Science Forum with Anu Ramaswami.
Bibliographies-why can’t research papers self-document what they are?
Apple Rejects a Caricature App
Nasty comment threads? That’s why it’s called (in Russian) InterNYET!
What happens to email after you die
Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books.
The Future of Journalism: The Contest!
Where’s my mammelephant?

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Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad
Download PLoS Article Level Metrics from Infochimps.org
Slow Science gets the Shaft – Part I
Internet Antichrist
Why did our species survive the Neanderthals? and Were Neanderthals our enemies or lovers?
The Internet Is a Weird and Wonderful Place
DPAC first-year numbers exceed expectations many times over in profitable start
Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences
Is Your Employer Betting on Your Death? (video) and story and the definition of dead peasant insurance.
Acknowledging Obama’s failures
Some Thoughts on Historians and Contemporary Anti-evolutionism.
Are you game for new way of learning? and Conspiracy Code – Course Overview and 360ed.
Hitting Woman Is Not Ok, Unless You Are Muslim
Synthetic Biology Competition
Wal-Mart bans gay couple for NOT shoplifting
Paul Carr wrote a stupid piece of curmudgeonry: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth which motivated several good rebuttals: Tweeting from the scene: Citizen journalism or ‘tragi-porn’? and Citizen journalism: I’ll take it, flaws and all and Killing straw men. In the same curmudgeounly vein – see Don’t Tweet On Me. And on similar topics: Walking The Story Back, Why the mainstream media is dying and Toward a Slow-News Movement.

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NYC subway system on Google Maps
Did you know that ‘Dance Me to the End of Love’ was inspired by Holocaust?
Deep thinkers: The more we study dolphins, the brighter they turn out to be
26 Scientific Products: From Scientific Cooking Kits to Experimental Lighting
Seriously cool font created out of bacteria wins prize
Best Hand Painting Art Ever
America Eats its Young: First and Ten at Fort Hood
Barbara Ehrenreich on the swine flu supply problem

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Scientwists Twitter List by David Bradley on Listorious
FLOTUS: Elevating the social status of nerds everywhere
An open letter to the medical community – Some passionate debate about personal genomics!
The Genomic Ark: 10,000 vertebrate genomes
Beautiful electron microscopic and computer modelling images from the new book by Frankel & Whitesides
Claiming to be unbiased is a patronising fairytale, so let’s just own up to our agendas
International Wolf Center Podcasts
Knowledge as a public good
Get with the times, Jay Rosen tells journos
LOL – Republicans come up with their own Healthcare plan: Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan. Embarassing!
This is bad, this is very bad – shooting at Ft. Hood
Polarized News? The Media’s Moderate Bias
For improving early literacy, reading comics is no child’s play
The age of informavore
Deals and their consequences, reports on green technology & personalized medicine
Calculating Animal Intelligence and Top 10 Smartest Mammals
On the media (or press) – science journalism, right and wrong.
Reflections on Science 2.0 from a distance – Part II
Awesome computer animation (wmv download) by Animusic.
The Secret to Learning is Unlearning
Responsibility: Shane and Joe – Health Care Organizational Ethics: “For every lone cowboy, there’s a community of support”
Response to Dan Ariely’s Duke Sex Toy Study Is Predictably Irrational
World-Science podcast: Swine Flu in the Amazon, Fixing Technological Fixes, Tsavo Lions and forum: Making Technology Work — for People with Anu Ramaswami.
Student journalists wage battle for H1N1 death certificates
Year of Energy 2009
Can We Talk About Science? I Mean, Really?
Pseudo-quackery in Pain Management: a field with a large gray zone between overt quackery and evidence-based care
How Would Los Angeles Look with No Cars?

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Global warming worries drive biofuels research
Research participants have a right to their own genetic data
Time to talk periods
RT @maninranks: Idea for TheRTP: Recent Imagine Science film festival in NYC. Why not here? Replay theirs? Do our own?
Another post on distributed science v. open source science: Distributed Science, Part 2
New House Bill Rejects ‘Spiritual Care’
Dangerously irrelevant libraries
The picture pretty much says it all: Wife discovers allergy to husband’s sperm on wedding night
2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Safety
Only the Village media can spin a 98% sweep into a Dems “election loss” as in this The Fix story. Mentioning GOP in an article at all and especially without warning they are insane is dereliction of journalistic duty that keeps GOP alive. But of course, keeping GOP zombie alive is needed for the ‘conflict’ storytelling and HeSaidSheSaid false balance “reporting”. To paraphrase: Stories about Republicans must always be written as though they aren’t liars for some reason…
Rebooting the News 31
Falklands Wolf First Appeared in North America, Researchers Say
Students and faculty don’t see eye to eye about state of technology use in classroom: Technology in the Classroom: Not always what you think.
Angry german kid vs how things work in busy town (video)
Professor Jay Rosen on his innovative journalism school class
A relieved and jubilant Kleinschmidt basks in Chapel Hill mayoral win
Wanted: rejection letters – “How quaint. A relic from when editors actually replied to say “No””
DPAC Exceeds Expectations
Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics and Ethics Creep, Soft Law and Positivism: The Problems of Regulatory Innovation in the Governance of Human Subjects Research
You know what else is an abomination, Maine? Lobster
Lovin’ the Numbers – Amory B. Lovins talk at Duke last night.
Discriminating butterflies show how one species could split into two
Where’s My Elephant?
Rebooting the News System in the Age of Social Media
Shining a light on dark data – publishing the unpublished and/or unpublishable?
Reflections on Science 2.0 from a distance – Part I – “natural unit of science research is the blog post”
Google, Waves and Fireflies – Totally awesome Firefly/Serenity/biology/GoogleWave connection!
Native language shapes the melody of a newborn baby’s cry
Horse genome sequence and analysis published in Science – Where’s the gene for bucking the rider off?

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More on science journalism: Mind the spin – muttering on about spin and some suggestions.
How the Internet Enables Intimacy
The temporary web – “Twitter makes us forget”
Behold the human search engine
As usual, the press gets it all wrong
Lashing out at Latisse® and Latisse®: Tell me more about my eyes.
Journalists have problems matching practice with ideals
Radio Reaches More People Than The Web
The new Lay Scientist site is fantastic.
Responding to community feedback – DeepDyve and PLoS – Q & A
The Politics of Drug Abuse Research Funding
A long-time print journalist finds her voice in blog
The Devil in the Details, Part II – Who can afford health insurance after reform?
Funding scientific research that people ‘don’t approve of’
Techie Tuesday and World AIDS Day

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The future of news is entrepreneurial
Tribune Co. papers rewiring for experimental week without AP
Politicians Use Social Media to Bypass the Press Corps
The first great mammoth
Welcome to ScienceOnline2010
Worth Watching – three great eco movies for the weekend.
The End of Impact Factors as a Measure of Research Quality
Genes as weather vanes for disease
Good news – Dan Delong will be back in the classroom today
GOP Rep.: Health Reform Scarier Than Terrorists
And the Healthcare Reform Disaster Continues…
NIH seeds scientific networking projects with $27M
DonorsChoose 2009 Social Media Challenge: How we did
Research subjects should have access to their own data
The Obamas’ Marriage and Questioning the mom in chief
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King (for a Time)
Retrospective News: An Example – The Garbage Patch Story
Pay walls never may come at some papers
One in five mammal species on extinction ‘red list’
This is sick: Doctor: I built myself a wife

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I went to this today (8:30am-2:50pm only) and will blog about it later.
Mission Improbable: A Concise and Precise Definition of P-Value
Columnist Quits After Newsday Starts Charging for Its Web Site
The accidental science blogger
How do birds sense the Earth’s magnetic field?
Contemplating ScienceOnline 2010 Sessions on Medical Journalism and Science 2.0
Light Directs Zebrafish period2 Expression via Conserved D and E Boxes
Richard Smith: The beginning of the end for impact factors and journals
Counting the global burden of foodborne disease
Article Level Metrics: What They Are and Why You Should Care
On Friday, I’ll be on the radio talking about ScienceOnline2010. Tune in.

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Doctors’ Lack of Respect Weighs on the Obese
Frogs in Boiling but Confusing Water: A Review of Climate Cover-Up
List of cognitive biases
Top Twitter Lists are very male…let’s make a women-in-STEM and/or women-bloggers lists and such and push them.
A room of her own – ‘Incredible story about a teacher who left a student $75K’
From sanctuary to snake pit: the rise and fall of asylums
The History of Birth Control

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Every plastic bag and bottle you’ve ever used still exists
Deal in Senate on Protecting News Sources
Are you a ‘messy thinker’?
The Complete Guide to Google Wave
Found one of these today. Obviously written by a coward. Boo!
A Must-Read for journos: There may be a future for the news business, but it’s going to be unrecognizable: We Just Don’t Know: An Interview with Jonathan Glick – “It was the monopoly that created the journalism, not the journalism that created the monopoly.”
A Must-Read for journos: Narrative is dead! Long live Narrative!
A Must-Read for journos: Toward post-Journalism journalism
A Must-Read for journos: Wild guesses won’t solve journalism crisis
Another Must-Read for journos: The Only ‘Journalism’ Subsidy We Need is in Bandwidth
Constraining America’s Brightest
Global/national and hyperlocal papers will thrive, metros will die, I always say. Perhaps I’m right:Most national papers in America are faring better than metropolitan ones
Global warming is not a liberal issue. GW Denialism is a conservative issue, though: Do two reporters have a conflict on the beat? – Equal voice=dereliction of journo duty.
For The Future Of The Media Industry, Look In The App Store

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On science writing and journalism: Scientists can’t write? and Science journalism–critical analysis, not debate and Three kinds of knowledge about science and journalism. Recommended.
A new treatment for chronic wounds
Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science?
Pretty Greeting Cards Warble, Tweet to Readers
Big-headed tiger snakes support long-neglected theory of genetic assimilation
UNC-CH, NCSU professor, entrepreneur Joseph DeSimone to receive top N.C. award
Seed article about animal homosexuality got an IL teacher suspended. Former students of the suspended teacher have set up a Facebook group in support.
The Data Explosion and the Scientific Method
China outperforms US on green issues
The recession is turning more people into paid clinical trial volunteers
Bio crude, a potentially lethal brain infection and asthma…
Don’t Get Cocky, Twitter – on Twitter lists and why they are not “ready” yet.
As journalists, are we our own brands?
Five reasons corporations are failing at social media
New Science Journalism Project – collaborative science news by journalism students worldwide.
Journalist Amy Wallace Welcomes ‘Conversation’ She’s Started About Vaccines
Sex and hand differences in circadian wrist activity are independent from sex and hand differences in 2D:4D
Study Surprise Yields New Target for Assessing Genes Linked to Autism
Prof replaces term papers with Wikipedia contributions, suffering ensues
Extreme Pumpkins – the ultimate guide to carving pumpkins – I wish I saw this site earlier!
Big Breasts: An Indicator of Dangerous Fat Deposition?
Malaria Vaccines: Where Next?
Make nominations for NC Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center Awards.
No news to report? Are you sure about that?
Russ Campbell starts a series of interviews with participants of #sciwri09 with the interview with Deborah Blum: People I met at the World Conference of Science Journalists
Casual Fridays: Is political wishy-washiness a general phenomenon?
PLoS at ASTMH 2009 – Booth 501
Nurse Ratched:Your Byline Has Blogger Envy – “There was a time when only journalists wrote the news….”
Social networks – are they useful or pointless? For scientists, you cannot collect people. You collect data and people will collect themselves, attracted to the data.
The Incredible Macro Bug Portraiture of Thomas Shahan
Basic concepts: Truth. (this one’s for bookmarking)
Jonah Lehrer: Outsider Intelligence – got hard problems? Don’t turn them over to experts – ask outsiders.
Do scientists encourage misleading media coverage? PR officers, not scientists.

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Science journalists, bloggers and the Brave New World we live in
Whispers Offstage? Could Be Actor’s Next Line
College Newspaper Writing in the GoogleAge
Information technology boosts popular science education in poor areas
Building an open Carolina news network
The Mammoths in Spain Lived Mainly on the Plains
Venomous shrews and lizards evolved toxic proteins in the same way
Dunbar number – misunderstanding it and understanding it and understanding it really well.
Open Access is the short-sighted fight
The global impact of OA week 2009
Concerning pseudonymity on blogs, it is always a good idea to revisit The Pseudonymity Laboratory
Coming to #scio10? Start signing up for Workshops: just edit that wiki page, add number and your name.
“If you want to help re-boot the news you should know about Studio 20, a new NYU Masters program”
Med students hoist P2P Jolly Roger to get access to papers: A study provides evidence that file sharing takes place with some very specialized media: the research papers published in scientific journals.
Should Scientists be Tweeting and Should You Be Tweeting?
Type of work affects the level of stress in horses (about this paper)
“Would be great to have this sorta thing in the Triangle”: The Imagine Science Film Fest
Need funding for a postdoc, sabbatical, or meeting? NESCent welcomes your proposals; due Dec1.

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Science Fiction has no necessary connection with Science: Your Mind Tricks Won’t Work On Me, Jedi and ScienceOnline’09 – interview with Blake Stacey.
The Atlantic article: sur rebuttal
If FriendFeed does not die by then, we’ll use this Room for live coverage of #scio10, if not – GoogleWave? I am wondering if it will become ubiquitous by mid-January….
UNC and NCSU generate three biomedical engineering spinoffs since 2007: Chasing an idea
What Obama’s Doing With Fox News
Mammoths in the news – Woolly mammoths in Spain? – sure just vacationing. It’s a beautiful coast…
Nasty BCBS anti-public-option fliers backfire: BCBS plea to customers on reform hits a nerve
Flu Self-Assessment:”Could I have H1N1 flu (swine flu)?”
This is why children need the H1N1 flu vaccine
Wired posts Amy Wallace love/hate mail compiled from Twitter feed
How to explain science to your friends
What women want may change during her cycle: Eye of the Beholder
12 Awesome Social Media Halloween Pumpkin Carvings – yes, I also love the Fail Whale the best.
Product placements in movies: When they work, and when they don’t
If you don’t get what the problems with plastics in the ocean are, check this out: A Tale of Entanglement (video)
Circadian Surprise: Mechanism Of Temperature Synchronization In Drosophila
Birds Use Light, Not Magnetic Field, to Migrate – biomagnetite vs. cryptochrome debate is far from over. Overstated PR?
Magic and Marvelous Boxes, and the Future of Newsrooms
Correction Fluid – Lessons from the Scalia misquote heard ’round the Web
Amazing pics! RT @tdelene: Wow: Barn swallow clears two inch opening on the way home – at 35 MPH! A job for superswallow
‘Hey Jude’ Flowchart
A Happy Family of Pachycephalosaurus

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Defending Science Isn’t Always Pretty and When critics disagree with me, I’m a Pharma Shill. When critics disagree with a woman, it gets sexual.
How I Find Time to Write
Why The (Impure) Public Option is (Probably) Gaining Momentum and Don’t Bother Waiting for Bloggers to Get Credit for the Public Option
A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades
What 15 freshmen taught me about social media.
Author of ‘Encyclopedia of Evolution’ is now blogging: Honest Ab: Evolution and Related Topics
College Newspaper Writing in the GoogleAge
That’s not an unfair question!
The Irony of Henry Adams: The most misunderstood quote evah!
When Do Immigrants Learn English? Likely, not when you think.
Medical Education Evaluated With Twitter
The Fate of the Incompetent Teacher in the YouTube Era and Lectures Are a Small Part of Learning
Sick Damselflies Hit the Road

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Swine flu parties: I doubt anyone is that dumb, but I’ve been surprised before
Run, do not walk, to register for ScienceOnline2010
A PhD is not a 9-to-5
Wowd – a Real-Time search engine of ‘what’s popular’. Interesting….
RT @Bex_Walton: Images related to #PLoS ONE spider study in the NYT; 3rd story in 3 weeks: Science in Pictures: Spider Glue and Kinky Nanowires –
Time to Register for ScienceOnline2010!
Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease and Will genomics help prevent the next pandemic? and Will genomics help prevent the next pandemic? and Scientists say genomics research essential to preventing next pandemic.
At Slate, small is the new big – ‘Editor David Plotz sees a future with a smaller, highly engaged audience for the online magazine’
ScienceOnline 2010: geobloggers required
Only 5 days left till the end of the DonorsChoose action.
Looking for something to do Jan 15-17th?
A Natural Obsession: “Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology–and a widespread mistrust of science–won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture.”
If you are looking for journalists to follow on Twitter, check out these lists
The Part Of Social Media That Freaks Out Freelance Writers
Barack Obama Boosts Testosterone and Republican Losers Have Lower Testosterone.
In Search of an Optimal Peer Review System
Science enters the age of Web 2.0 – Mendeley, Cameron Neylon, and Google Wave in the BBC.

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Collaboration across news organizations: National (climate) The Climate Countdown and Local (healthcare) Madison media launch All Together Now with a collaborative reporting project on health care.
How to talk about human evolution to lay audience? Dawkins and Hewitt – John is onto something there, methinks….
Bachmann being ‘an authentic representative of the Republican base’ is the only thing George Will got right in this screed.
Discussing end-of-life care in the ICU and saving Medicare money
Projectile weapons and carnivores – I also saw that talk, but @tdelene explains it better than I possibly can.
Communicating Science in the 21st Century (video) – Excellent panel except for the minute 71:57-72:45 which demonstrates exactly what is wrong with journalism: View From Nowhere.
Stop Your Search Engines mentions MacFreedom.
Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists and Prosecutors Attack Innocence Project Journalism Students.
Visual representation of dinosaurs as it changed over the years (movie)
Mantis shrimp eyes outclass DVD players, inspire new technology
Amy Wallace in Wired on Dr Paul Offit and the Anti-Vaccination Movement: Superb, Engaging Science Journalism
Museum of Animal Perspectives – cameras in nature, on animals.
The Accidental Cyberjournalist – Why do so few j-school students plan to go into online news? Topic of today’s CollegeJourn chat.
Register for Science Online 2010 before it’s too late! and Upcoming conference ScienceOnline 2010
A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear
A field guide to the microbes?
The History and Evolution of Social Media
TheStar.com Redesign
John Hagel on The Social Web – “Social Web feels ‘a bit like Back to the Future’ for people who have a long history with the Internet.”
RT @mistersugar ScienceOnline2010 attracting int’l participation – 9 countries represented so far. See who’s coming.

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Open Source Science Commons
ScienceOnline2010 Hotel information is now up.
No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund
RT @eroston “Dangerous article for not saying–whatever US thinks–temps are rising and industry is responsible”: Survey Says: Americans Not Worried About Global Warming
Journalists sink in The Atlantic article on vaccines
Why Journalists Shouldn’t Be Defending Fox News and NPR’s Ken Rudin Apologizes for ‘Boneheaded Mistake’ and 8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization.
A Short-Faced Bear’s Mammoth Picnic and Mammoth toes – Why would a bear waste its time eating a mammoth’s foot?
Dr. Isis and PalMD on Bloggingheads!
RDFa on PLoS – ‘We just added Dublin Core RDFa to all our articles’
Croatia – an emerging birding destination! and so is Serbia.
A very detailed summary of ScienceWriters 09, workshops & Sunday morning New Horizons: Science Writers 2009 Conference
Superfreakonomics not just wrong on climate change, but also on prostitution: Prostitution, for fun and profit – Juicy smackdown!
RT @ccziv @PaulaRobinson Nurses Needed – “Ever wonder why there are so many new “nursey” shows? Media manipulates public, as usual”
The Accidental Cyberjournalist – Why do so few j-school students plan to go into online news? I wonder if situation changed in the past 3 yrs especially with closing of so many outlets & vigorous discussion of “The Future”…
Listen to Duke Radio show – @maninranks interviewed @mistersugar and me about #scio10, #SITT and science blogging
Here’s a list of NC museums by county.
Will Open Access inhibit innovation?

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Science as a Religion that Worships Doubt as its God and Science and the Worship of Truth
Designing for the wrong target audience (or why Drupal should be a developer tool and not a consumer product)
The first African open access institutional mandate story (pdf)
Open Access Week – the challenge from the Wellcome Trust – ‘Major UK funder comments on scale & pace of OA development “probably now an unstoppable movement” ‘
Cal Academy of Sciences spotlights OA and PLoS (new video features our CEO): Open Access and PLoS
Wakeful Orcas – whales/dolpins do not sleep for two months after giving birth!
ICU stay before death common in the U.S. – ‘People who die in US hospital nearly 5X as likely as in UK to have spent part of final hours in ICU’
For those who can see Twitter lists, I just made a ScienceOnline2010 attendees list.
Richard Dawkins’ View of Random Genetic Drift
Open Access Week: a researcher’s perspective part II
‘Fox News was founded to de-legitimate journalism’: Fox among the pigeons – “Fox is to news what pro wrestling is to sports: only idiots can’t see that the fix is in. Also lots of shouting & fake blondes”
A powerful photography exhibition: Pollution in China
The Science of Retweets on Twitter – ‘Meme contagion gets the scientific treatment’

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‘Connecticut Republicans create 33 fake accounts using names of Dem legislators; Twitter shuts them down’: Republicans Overtweet – Twitter shuts down 33 fake accounts created by state Republicans in an attempt to lambast Dems.
Parents More Comfortable Talking Drugs than Science – Intel Survey Reveals Majority of Parents of Teens Find it Difficult to Help their Kids with Math and Science.
A Chef Discovers Science.
RT @arikia It’s official #scio10: Arikia Millikan and Nate Silver will be moderating a session together on Web Science at ScienceOnline2010.
Important read: In which the Millikan thinks on her feet and Thoughts on predatory males and safety in the ‘hood

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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 student is winner in national Future of Southern Agriculture essay competition
Are the Days of Independent Political Bloggers Numbered? Digby and Atrios Chime In
Matt Thompson on the problem of Journalism Overload
Time Travel Through the Brain
Duke study: McCain loss to Obama hit supporters in testes
Cornell starts the 70th or so “facebook for scientists”: Scientists hope to network Facebook-style. Why? Why? Why? Dilution of services, they all FAIL.
Gates Foundation grants support unusual research and Gates Foundation Funds 76 New Ideas to Improve Global Health, From Chewing Gum to Chocolate and Grand Challenges Explorations

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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 journalism report: Who are they writing for?
Stuart Shieber: Is open-access journal publishing a vanity publishing industry? – ‘Not likely’
PLoS article citations per day, colored by publication year – Shows that PLoS ONE has an overall equal rate of citation to PLoS Biology.
£2 million more for Wellcome Trust author fund and German Research Foundation funding for university author funds.
Interactive 3D Molecules in PLoS ONE articles
The anti-vaccine war on science: An epidemic of fear and The New Plague.
Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays
‘Guerrilla OA’ done right. and discussion.
PNAS will publish controversial papers, journal says – PNAS paper conclusion like saying if “humans had sex with fish and then you get whales”
I never thought of a 404 page as an opportunity!
Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter
Superfreakonomics: How did they get climate change so wrong? – “…contrarianism may be fun, but it’s not for amateurs.”
PLoS Medicine is 5 this week
Lasers used to write false memories onto the fruit fly brain
Notebooks Aside…Science writers grapple with digital media at annual meeting
The incompetent workplace bullies – Psychologists have found that bullying happens more when bosses don’t feel up to the job.
CREE LED Creates NC Jobs
Are We Playing Telephone With Our Information? – In the media, Non-Scientists are deciding what is important.
Wellcome Trust calls for greater transparency from journals on open access publishing costs
The Growth of Citizen Science – How amateurs are contributing to research.

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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 Reached!
US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Adopts OA mandate
Support for Vaccination Has a Well-Known Liberal Bias and An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
John Wilbanks: I have seen the paradigm shift, and it is us (PDF)
Tim Berners Lee gets award at start of OA week
Gorgeous @blprnt visualization of when people say “Good morning” on Twitter: GoodMorning!
Research Remix video contest for OA week
Joanne Loves Science: October Science So Far (video)
Farmers are women! Absolutely brilliant photo essay: Female Farmers
Can Google Earth save an indigenous tribe with maps?
RT @Scobleizer: FriendFeed’s Paul Buchheit says that it isn’t dead yet.
School children’s performance is influenced by their chronotype
Video: NIH director has big plans for autism research
Columbia Suspends Environmental Journalism Program
The Reconstruction of American Journalism
Digital Geoscience links from GSA, part 1
Stitching science together – Google Wave for scientists
Emergent Universe
How To: Extract DNA from your Halloween pumpkin
The Symphony of Science – Spreading scientific knowledge & philosophy through music

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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 Apocalypse #ZA
RT @arvindsays Found this lovingly written piece while reading on the Montana wolf hunt: Looking for 527.
England’s libel laws don’t just gag me, they blindfold you.
Gay Manners and Etiquette.
Science Writers 2009: Day 1
Sharkwater (video)
Twitter Lists; Limitations, bugs, impact, and brilliance
How brains generate variable behavior.
Where there’s a (George) Will there’s a way (to be a preening, pompous ass).
RT @smalljones Class to react to Seth Godin’s Tribe talk tomorrow. Contrast & compare with Duncan Watts’ critique? The Tribes We Lead – Seth Godin
Kermit the Frog’s Conflicts of Interest.
Mice navigate a virtual reality environment.
Skeptical Blog Anthology.
‘Ethical’ stem cell crop boosted
If you are doing a session/demo/workshop at ScienceOnline2010 & do not yet have a description please add it today to the Program page. Yup, gotta finalize the Program – session titles/descriptions – by tomorrow so we can open Registration Tue or Wed.

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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 tomorrow night when @ccziv comes back home.
And I indulged in a lot of conversing and retweeting and other stuff, so what follows is just a selection of interesting links I tweeted today:
Tampon scarcity in Brooklyn.
Nurse whistleblowers face jail time for reporting quack to medical board
Jerry Coyne’s View of Random Genetic Drift
Nasty and mean with a side of stupid . Yup, the guy is a school teacher in the USA!
Big Plastic Jugs for victims of Health Insurance Business deaths panels: The plastic jug meme
The Republican Party is an iPhone application! LOL: video.
New GPS tracker opens doors for marine research in sunfish.
Signing a public petition means taking a public stand.
Mental health in Kenya.
What problems does Google Wave solve?
PBS Botany of Desire
Defining blogs and blogging.
Scientists on Twitter: Science Pond
Chiropractors cause controversy.
Balloon Boy Saga Offers Lesson in Eyewitness Testimony and Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax and Sheriff: Charges to be filed in balloon saga.
Excellent: Mesopredators gone wild.
At ScienceOnline2010 we’ll have session “how journos know which scientists to trust”. How about turning the tables? Burned many times before, how should scientists figure out which, if any, journalists to trust?
Chimpanzees Are Altruistic – But Only If You Ask Nicely.
Build a high resolution spectrograph in 15 minutes – Awesome!
Map of social media.
Blogging, tweeting and conferences and On Twitter and perhaps Web 3.0. Perhaps not.
Subject: Our Marketing Plan
The Top U.S. Politics Blogs, Via Technorati’s Update.
The Internet abhors a funnel.
Caution: Health Insurance May Be Hazardous To Your Health
Open Access Week 2009 comes to Wellington!

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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 of Money for content producers an interesting idea? Worth exploring?’ The Big Pool of Money experiment. Your thoughts?

85 wordpress plugins for blogging journalists
UNC Scientists demonstrate link between genetic defect and brain changes in schizophrenia (video)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma for Kids, updated, abridged and illustrated.
David Brooks writes on neuroscience,,,and does not make a fool of himself for a change: The Young and the Neuro.
Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics.
Lovely poem: Someone Is Wrong…On The Internet.
The Flight Of The Falcon, in verse.
‘Lovely visualization of the insights on human beings possible by studying Google Suggest’: The Oracle in Your Browser
Singing mice: Barbara Stebbins, Middle School Science Teacher
Blogworldexpo Keynote panel ‘The death and rebirth of journalism’
RT @jdlasica @Scobleizer on stage now: The Huffington Post surpassed the Washington Post in traffic just yesterday. #bwe09
Hey, I am in this video: CREE Green Jobs Press Conference
Ouch! Gawker: The Washington Post Has the Worst Opinion Section in America.
Reading, E-Books and the Brain– ‘What can E-Books teach us about the reading brain?’
I’d like to teach the world to blog – how to get scientist to start using blogging tools?
Effortless Perfection – “girl on the elliptical machine who is simultaneously highlighting her copy of Alberts”
Why Everything in Superfreakonomics About Global Warming Is Wrong
One More Piece in the VACV Ecological Puzzle: Could Peridomestic Rodents Be the Link between Wildlife and Bovine Vaccinia Outbreaks in Brazil?
Democracy Corps: Republican Base Voters Living In Another World

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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 science – update.
Riding the wave: Rethinking science & technology policy.
Six weeks to submit your blog post for the NESCent travel award. Check here for all entries to date.
Saved the search for #sciwri09 hashtag so I can follow the meeting here.
Darwinopterus and mosaic, modular evolution: It’s yet another transitional fossil!
The Spread of New Diseases:
The Climate Connection.
Contrarian Double-X hires sociopath as friendship expert.
Health insurance: death panel refuses to cover a baby because it is too big!?! video.
The Book of Odds.
Blushing: RT @analauda: Yesterday was OA DAY @ Belgrade University. The most cited was @BoraZ & @PLOS, #PLOS is a hero of the week in Serbia
RT @DoctorZen Better Posters blog: How using http://prezi.com for talks might help your posters.
Evolved for Extinction?
Balloons.
From the Open Access Day in Belgrade, Serbia and OPEN ACCESS 2009 IN BELGRADE.
Why we need congress to pass the Federal Research Public Access Act: Access to Publicly-Funded Research: Why Not Now?
California agribusiness pressures school to nix Michael Pollan lecture.
Senators want tax-funded research online.

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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 student video for OA week which starts Monday.
This is my blog, in three cartoon panels, or, I should have said “This is my blog in a cartoon version sometimes provided by my more critical readers”
The Trafigura fiasco tears up the textbook – ‘A mix of old media and the Twittersphere blew away conventional efforts to buy silence’
Pens, Swords and Peer Review, ‘Have you ever submitted a scientific paper to a journal?’
Animal Rights Extremists Are At It Again and This is how you do ‘militant’.
HPV vaccinination—this is real, people
Call For A National Ocean Policy!
Ridiculous Study Blames Feminism for Non-Existent ‘Happiness Gap’ Between Men and Women by Barbara Ehrenreich – look at this and tell me what you think. And a response by the authors.
Against Transparency: The perils of openness in government by Lawrence Lessig.
Fall of Rome (PDF) “The habit of command is hard to break.” and The Fall of Rome: ABC Managing Director Mark Scott’s Lecture
Worth a Thousand Words – Coalas’ ECG in the presence of tourists.
PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month – halfway there.

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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 comments how ecologists have a very different attitude on “meta” from bioinformatics folks
Why Newspapers are Dying: George Will Has Reached His Sell-By Date edition
“A new and unconventional J-school”: Help Create a New Army of Progressive Journalists
Why Facebook could be the next big news publisher
100 years of Big Content fearing technology–in its own words and Illegal Downloads 150x More Profitable Than Legal Sales and Here’s a Technology That Will Revolutionize Publishing.
Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking – this Saturday!
“Jon Stewart on CNN’s fact checking, signature phrase “we’re going to have to leave it there””: CNN Leaves It There (video)
SfN Interactive: Announcing Neurobloggers – I started counting to see if they picked a hashtag exactly 140characters long – a way to muzzle while appearing ‘modern’…
Funny cartoon by @slowpokejen about an alternate reality where iPhones grow sentient (featuring Sarah Palin and Obama’s Nobel)
Adam & Eve Announces 2nd Annual Sex Toy Halloween Contest
2009 Nobel Conference Keynote: Democracy in the Age of Science (video)
Science journals crack down on image manipulation
Triangle Region’s ranking as “Smartest City” got CNN’s attention…and we’re going to have to leave it there…
Best Places to Launch – The best metro areas for small business startups.
Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel-winning Commons
Factual.com – “A fantastic tool, potentially, for journalists and publishers. Open-source data.”
Clay Shirky answers questions re future of news, complete w/Gutenberg’s rise from the grave: The Future of News (video)
“Grandmother Hypothesis”? Not so fast! How can menopause be an adaptation?!
Two Good Reasons To Always Read the Methods Section of a Scientific Paper
Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists: “Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again.”

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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 DuraSpace/SPARC OA Week Contest Winners
Job: Executive Editor (PLoS ONE)
New report – income models for OA – essential reading for publishers and others (PDF)
Open Access and Social Networking and Open Access in Serbia – slideshows for the OA week on Wednesday.
Watch @p_binfield’s presentation at Let’s Have An Awesome Time Publishing Science conference.
RT @SuePolinsky: #convergesouth 2010. October. Hold the month!
PLoS participating in Webinar on latest developments in OA with five other publishers.
RT @jayrosen_nyu: “Sharpen your pencils, get those flow charts out. Knight News Challenge deadline extended to December 15”: News Challenge deadline extended to 12/15
Rebooting The News #28 – Dave: “I love librarians.”
Twitter feed from LCROSS quotes final thoughts of missile turned into whale – Nasa tweetchannels Douglas Adams.
Sounds good: SeedingLabs is a non-profit venture that works to provide used scientific equipment to labs in Africa.

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‘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 of the beholder… – “A major furor erupted in Britain recently when the government announced that it had introduced measures to eradicate “pointless research.””
“The Times Public Editor attempts to explain health care coverage that does not truly explain health care”: The Health Care Sprawl
Iran. Woman. Finger: BEST. PICTURE. EVER.
How ‘superswarms’ of krill gather
Things you may say about “your lovely partner because you’re a nice person not because its true”: Waiting for clitoromania
Offensive Play: How different are dogfighting and football? – ‘New Gladwell, on football and dogfighting. Heavy focus on great UNC research.’
Being a Clam in Molluscan Zodiac, I should “Avoid cheesecake at all costs this week, except on Wednesday”
Copyright Infringement is NOT Theft
Entire Cities Recreated Using Thousands of Flickr Photos – including Rome, Dubrovnik.
Once again, future-safe archives
Why the epidemiology of swine flu matters
While everyone is on the subject of HPV…, or, why boys should be vaccinated, not just girls.
Student survey on virtual science conferences
Replicators First vs. Metabolism First
I knew that rule back in 1st grade! – Don’t these people have The Google? – “Jim Fallows caught egregious WashPost editorial flub”
Interesting job listing at UNC Chapel Hill: Executive Producer for Digital Student Newsroom
ZOMG what an incredible piece of hyper-adaptationism: On The Belly: Evolution’s Hot Button – he better wish Larry Moran does not see this and tear it apart!
Small African primate possibly sheds light on soft-tissue morphology of Cretaceous diplodocoid

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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 Google Wave – ‘How Google Wave might alter online psychology. Replay in particular’
Is conservative Republicanism epistemically incompatible with science?
iPhone apps every biologist needs
Miriam Goldstein Tracks Plastic in Skiff – The Garbage Patch (video)
First half of This American Life healthcare Explainer today (podcast will appear later). Second half next week.
The Outrage Pandemic – about Obama’s Nobel Peace prize
Thanks to Diana for helping students through my Giving Page
Review of ‘Unscientific America’ in the American Scientist: A Thin Broth
Diagnosis author Lisa Sanders in the Triangle
Porn company names Gingrich ‘Family Values Porn Fan of the Year, 2009.’
Funny: http://ijustmadelove.com/ – I got “Server overloaded, too many people are making love right now.”
ScienceOnline2010 update
The Science of Storytelling
Blowing in the wind – Is wind power bad for birds? Is there a better way?
All the things that Obama has rendered unamerican, by doing them
Randy Olson responds to criticism of “Sizzle” (movie) and “Don’t be such a scientist” (book)
30 GOP Senators Vote to Defend Gang Rape
Is MoDo ‘getting inspired’ by other people’s work? Again? ‘Norwegia’ is Kelly’s line from “Married with Children”, “Nobel for chemistry” is from tweet by @EzraKlein. Not original.

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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 Committee.
– That was the Nobel for medicine, for the organic garden in the White House and hot they try to heal the world.
– Nobel Peace Prize to Obama is really to the American people for getting out of Dark Ages and voting for him. Europe saw the light again.
– Peace prize is an encouragement real work is still to come and World has Obama’s back.
– GOP, treated as legitimate in the USA, was unfathomable to Europeans. They had a deep sigh of relief on Nov.4th. Nobel is a “thank you” note
– Peace Prize, unlike the others, is for Effort. Alfred wrote the strange instructions at a different age in history.
– I also think it’s premature – I am just trying to explain the European mindset/reasoning that led to it, to the Americans.
– Nobel Peace prize is limited to the surface of the Earth. Sending NASA to bomb the Moon does not count.
RT @ccziv Anybody going to American Society for Bioethics and Humanities conf next week in DC?
Genital mimicry, social erections and spotted hyenas
100 Must-Read Blog Posts on the Future of Learning
Is this science journalism?!?!
Education Needs to Be Turned on Its Head – wise philosopher said: best for your kids–stay out of the way.
RT @NESCent The 1st wave of blog entries are coming in! Add yours to the list to win $750 for ScienceOnline2010 #scio10
Bug splatter on your car’s windshield is a treasure trove of genomic biodiversity

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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 Policy for York University Librarians and Archivists
Thanks to HP for helping students through my Giving Page

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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 & The Awesome Power of Natural Products: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath win 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
A big shift in in news: from “site” to “application…”: Research: Social media publications may have advantage over traditional news sites
Eight Public Media 2.0 Projects That Are Doing it Right – w00t! for Scienceblogs.com!
Pre OA Week Activites in Ireland
Readers expect news to find them: “If the news is that important, it will find me.”
What is relevant to my research right now?
Old Media vs. New Media: Let’s call this one off: “The war ended. The prophets turned out to be correct.”
Worth a Thousand Birds
Rational Irrationality – The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone
Thanks to Russ for helping students through my Giving Page

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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 African Apes
How House, M.D. is affecting patients’ expectations of medical care
The Future of Health Care Is Social
Women in Science: A Spot at the Bench
Excellent explanation of telomeres (with a jab at IntelligentDesignCreationists getting it wrong)
RT @mistersugar Join me for #sconc happy hour Thur 10/8 5:30pm @ West End Wine Bar, Durham to meet Lisa Sanders M.D., medical narrative guru
Patient experience – Gel Health 2009 conference Oct.22-23. in NYC
Excellence Everywhere: A Resource for Scientists Launching Research Careers in Emerging Science Centers
‘The Spirit of Open Access’ Haiku Contest
Why I Sent A Guy With A Normal EKG To The Cath Lab
Text Messaging Shows Promise as a Survey Tool – interview with Eszter Hargittai
Re-engineering the Scientific Journal
Trackway Analysis Shows How Dinosaurs Coped With Slippery Slopes
ScienceOnline2010: amazing program almost finalized: Last chance to volunteer to do something.
What is a BarCamp? – where they train bartenders? No.
JMP scientific statistic software is 20 years old today
Scrabble Computer Keyboard – Want!
Plants, Empire and the Ignorance of Western Civilization
Getting a Ph.D. for the money?
Commenting on PLoS: Get noticed

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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 YouTube channel? (to understand why this is idiotic, see:this, this and this for explanation).
Malaria in Africa: The net gains of keeping mosquitoes at bay
Openly atheist candidate for office (Ovittore) given a ‘religious test’ – not kosher!
Tell Me A Story of Science – see excellent discussion.
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill ranked as America’s smartest metro area.
Blogs can be regulated by the Feds but not be protected from the Feds by Shield Laws
AcaWiki (first shown at ScienceOnline09) officially launched: a ‘Wikipedia for academic research.’
UNC doctor Stephen Gamboa will represent North Carolina in a meeting today with President Obama
The Conduct of Science is a Social Science
Weekly PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up
Honeybee Research in PLoS ONE
Japanase production of Spring Awakening on You Tube (video)
BusinessWeek’s Shirley Brady on online communities and crowdsourcing
But Plumber Chicks Are HAWT!
Journalists Become Trainers & Coaches for Local Communities
Why the Stimulus Should Have Been Called Rebuilding: U.S. Falling Behind in Trains and Internet
DonorsChoose Social Media Challenge 2009 Now Underway
Wow! Even high-end glossy magazines are shutting down! Conde Nast Shutters Gourmet After McKinsey Review and Media Decoder: Few Luxuries Left Inside Condé Nast
Best PR for #scio10 are interviews with past participants: 2008 and 2009

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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 “Glance Test”? Stanford Passed (and Failed) the Glance Test. Would you?
Twitter’s New ‘Lists’ Feature Finally Introduces Grouping, Offers An Alternative To The SUL
2009 Summit: Environmentally Responsible Development of Nanotechnology at the NC Biotechnology Center.
ScienceOnline2010 Program is looking better and better.

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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
Will Books Be Napsterized?
Conference blogging redux
Debunking a historically inaccurate circulating e-mail: How old is Grandpa???
It’s Time To Hide The Noise – Sort all Tweets by recent/interesting? @jayrosen_nyu says that’s THE Live Web challenge.

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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 best looking library repository online?
Circadian and social cues regulate sodium channel trafficking in electric fish
The Shifting Demographic Landscape of Influenza
Futurity Imperfect – The science journalism community weighs in as a new website blurs the line between reporting and public relations.
At long last, meet Ardipithecus ramidus
Ardipithecus ramidus
What Newspaper Cartoonists Can Learn from Web Comics
Yes, a tiny but loud niche: The Wizard of Beck – David Brooks explains that rightwing radio is ethereal at best.
Love is like a zoom lens
1st review of Rebecca Skloot’s book
Rescuing The Reporters – Clay Shirky counts the number of news stories produced by his hometown paper with a staff of 59 – 9 stories by all 6 of their reporters. Similar to what Jay Rosen did recently.
If you missed it before – much liveblogging of #scio10 will probably occur in the FriendFeed room
Electronic publication of zoological names: Contributions to the Discussion on Electronic Publication II (pdf) //Hey, I was quoted in it!
World Science Festival 2009: Pioneers in Science: “Harold Varmus answers a question about PLoS and PubMed – video

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Why newspapers fold – a case study: Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News – Text and video of speech delivered at UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit at Google in Silicon Valley – thinking like a newspaper, not like a media org.
UK teenager killed by tumour not Glaxo vaccine
Dramatic Growth of Open Access: September 30, 2009
What sort of ‘trigger’ are they waiting for?
It’s DonorsChoose time and Win a ScienceBlogs Swag Bag when you participate in the Donors Choose 2009 Challenge and ScienceBlogs has overtaken Twitter in the #donorschoose 2009 Social Media Challenge
Hooked on Science at NCSU
The Program page got too big to edit! New, smaller, nimbler page for you. ScienceOnline2010.
Travel Awards for ScienceOnline 2010
PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month – September 2009
Organize your ScienceOnline2010 carpooling and room-sharing by editing this wiki page
Electronic publishing is inevitable and even the ICZN is beginning to accept it
Interesting social media reading
Engineering the shiny digital future – Open Science, Citizen Science, the Future
Art vs. Science, Part Three: A little mystery is a good thing
If you are visiting RTP or Triangle as a whole (e.g., for ScienceOnline2010): Restaurant options near RDU, from quick and cheap to leisurely and upscale
Stimulus jolts Triangle science
Bad for bloggers: Why Did Sen. Schumer Attempt To Limit The Press Shield Law?
PETA has a bone to pick with DonorsChoose.

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Interplanetary paleontology?
Policy change before peer review: OA needed?
A Sick T. rex
Peter Lawrence’s Kafta tale of research grant funding
Ensuring Integrity in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Accentuate the Negative
Obama announces $5 bln for new medical research
Conference travel fellowship for best evolution-themed blog in 2009
Write a blogpost about evolution, compete, get famous and win a ticket to an interesting conference!
The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief
Coming to Twitter: Create Sharable Lists of Users

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The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: PLoS article-level metrics: substantial value add for authors
Is ‘Good Enough’ Good Enough for You?
Almost time for PLoS ONE Blog Pick Of The Month: Hurry up!
This is actually kind of serious: ‘Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research’
How to provide safe, quality hospital care by increasing transparency
Adventures in Academia: On open access, Stanford’s leadership falters
Mark Patterson’s (PLoS) talk ‘Re-Engineering the Scientific Journal’ from the 1st OASPA Conference
The ABC of PLoS ONE – from ‘ant’ to ‘zebu’, we cover it all.
Triangle emerges as hotbed of advanced analytics
Take a Stand: How journalism can regain its relevance
Was Mighty T. Rex ‘Sue’ Felled By A Lowly Parasite?
Electric Fish Turn Down Charge for Energy Efficiency
Truth-seeking professionals and the public: Why is journalism unique? – why are academics/scientists given freedom, but journalists asked to relinquish it?
New Zealand launches a Science blog network! SciBlogs. Here is the press release: NZ’s largest science blog network goes live (Daniel Collins and Fabiana Kubke are familiar names to me – how about you?)
Last day to vote for @GrrlScientist – Who will go to Antarctica to be your official blogger?
Building Blogs of Science: On the virtues of having a lap
Next Generation Science: ScienceOnline2010 – Conference on Science and the Web

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Gordon Conference – Pineal Cell Biology: Mechanisms Of Circadian Rhythmicity And Melatonin Action
Nixon’s prepared speech if Apollo 11 astronauts got stranded on the moon
Free-market idolatry: Government not the only power to resist – “we need to rethink the common belief that says government is always the problem”
500+ science types on Twitter
David Bradley’s brilliant flow chart ‘To Follow or Not To Follow’ on Twitter
Why metaphors:Thinking literally
Understanding the Psychology of Twitter and More on the Psychology of Twitter, both parts focuse entirely on Lifecasting instead of Mindcasting.
Kati London and Kate Hartman demonstrating Botanicalls.
Science Education by Press Release
Circadian and Social Cues Regulate Ion Channel Trafficking
Considering Usual Medical Care in Clinical Trial Design
RT @ccziv Anybody besides me have a problem with James Rachels’ distinction btwn biological and biographical life, or notions of complexity?
Dale Maharidge Interview: Covering The Economic Pain Of Real Americans
greenMeter
Dialogue, not debate. (animal rights)
Testing the water with OA funds

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Washington Post needs social media conversation, not restrictions and WaPo’s Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner; Full Text of Guidelines.
Ukraine’s Got Talent winner brings nation to tears (see video here).
On the inaugural Long Table – A splendid start
Feedback needed for Drupal workshop at #scio10
Charles Darwin Lecture Sept 29th at 6:30 Dale Russell: “Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land” NC Museum of Natural Sciences
New lecture series by Harvard’s Michael Sandel:Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
Science literacy – getting more people into science, innit, Part II
Fact and Friction, interview with Jay Rosen.

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How would Einstein use e-mail?
College students are not as intelligent and Smarter people go to college, so average university students less intelligent?
How blogging has augmented my career
More crappy flu journalism, this time Alternet [rant alert!]
@TrixieTracker @chillnc I remember as a blog is now a very useful phone App
The Secrets of Time Square’s Ridiculous Billboards
Friday Weird Science: The Hyena Mating Game
RT @thegarbagegirl: We’ve reached the garbage patch! [20 minutes ago from web] //the amazing blogging. (hashtag #SeaSaturday)
On the same ship that just entered the Garbage patch, bloggers: The Plastic Ocean and Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita (hashtag #SeaSaturday)
David Brooks: our nation’s premier expert warrior
Terry Tao: A speech for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (on how the internet is changing science, especially mathematics)
The Open PhD – What a Concept (discussion on FriendFeed)
Newswire Analysis: Google Scholar’s Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, and Other Problems
The Buglife Spider Hunt
Three evolution books reviewed and NCSE Reviews and A radio show and three book reviews
Is the best research unfunded research? Does getting a grant make one over-cautious and conservative?
RT @dangillmor More evidence that the old-style print folks have completely taken over WashPost editorial http://bit.ly/NRH1o what a waste – Post Editor Ends Tweets as New Guidelines Are Issued
RT @ccziv Interesting article on pet chickens by @susanorlean in 9/28 New Yorker: The It Bird and Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean
Swinging Chicken Ritual Divides Orthodox Jews
This is an interesting list, by @Scobleizer, of people on Twitter you may be interested in following: You’re not on Twitter’s suggested user list but you are in good company
Tx @jayrosen_nyu for drawing attention to Wilmington StarNews (NC) @MyReporter ‘answerer’ http://www.myreporter.com/ The answer is 42, of course.

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Embargo? Embargo? The case of the missing flu paper – An open-and-shut case for open science?
Blogging geoscience meetings
Congrats to Cary, NC for being named as one of America’s “Next Cities” by Next Generation Consulting: Where Are the Next Cities?
RTP: To understand the history of science/technology parks read the NRC report, for future read ours – Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty Years of Technology-Led Economic Development
News, Medical Students, Social Network Analysis: Digital Histories can’t be Deleted
Beautiful world – award for science images –Lennart Nilsson Award
The best writing mistakes and how to make them.
Good user experience is not optional
fMRI of a dead salmon: Why dead fish have almost nothing to do with ‘voodoo correlations’ in neuroimaging
Coywolf (part wolf, part coyote): Evolution of a coywolf, and range expansion
A challenge for you: Community coworking space and Web worker job training
Clearwater Woman Attacked By Alligator and Gator Attack Way Too Close to Home
Words – Social networking has only added to the power of words.
Stacy Baker, Harold Kroto and Francis Eberle on NPR Science Friday: Building Science Education
Virtual Science University (videos)
Science (and more) to Music
Journey South – global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change.
Sleepless in America – a good blog about biology/medicine of sleep.
Monarch Navigation, Whale-eating Worms, UN Climate Summit – The World Science podcast
How Drinking Is Like Yoga…
Way to go, Charlotte — get out there and boogie down!
The Meaning of Liff By Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
Will The Singularity save journalism? New media virtual interview No. 2 – Chip Oglesby interviews Dan Conover.
Vickie’s Prostitution Blog. Recommended.
Good science, wrong answer – periodicities in the extinction record?
Title decoding, the Jabberqocky method.
How to talk to complete idiots – Three basic options. Choose wisely, lest you go totally insane

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An Ontology for Biological Similarities
Open Access Publishing Is Not Perfect, Yet
Misunderstanding Dawkins: The Role of Metaphor in Science
Which scientists can you trust? (also discussed on FriendFeed) – something I’d like to see discussed at ScienceOnline2010
Page links to newspapers avail 2 UNC folks, including several versions of @dailytarheel
Michael Nielsen & Clay Shirky: Futurologists ‘R Us
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
Happy to announce I got on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Science Communication
There is a fury and and sadness inside that I cannot express via Turning Kids Into Criminals – Horrendous consequences of the statutory laws
On Web, A Most Novel Approach – “I hand-sold at least 2,000 to 3,000 copies.” Modern methods of book promotion.
Blogger Book Explosion
Bridging the Chasm between Two Cultures

The Simplest Way to Reboot Your Brain – take a nap!
Survival of the Kindest and Survival of the Kindest
Year of Science 2009: Science Zine-a-thon Contest
Blog Action Day – Climate Change
Dutch science minister supports OA
Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research – Scientific funding turns researchers into bureaucrats
What I LOVE About…the Triangle (one reason)
American Scientist Pizza Lunches: Pizza Lunch Podcasts
Bloggers’ fault for a newspaper breaking embargo? Leaking moon water is all Twitter’s fault – Times Delhi reporter should have behaved professionally, not blame scientists who are chatting on Twitter. His fault.
Who can research scientific iPhone apps and do a demo of them at ScienceOnline2010?
I love how Patrick Brown doesn’t mince words in the comment#1 of this: New Nature Journal to Offer Open-Access Option
John Wilbanks: It’s the Customer, Not the Container — SSP IN Keynote – good comment thread.
Antennal Circadian Clocks Coordinate Sun Compass Orientation in Monarch Butterflies and Unraveling Traveling and Butterflies Use Antenna GPS to Guide Migration
Scientists transfer ‘insomnia gene’ to mice – horrendous overhyping!
Scientific Photography group on PictureSocial.
Silencing citizen journalists, while using their photos: Dust storm flushes out citizen journalists
SNPwatch: Common Variants May Influence Glaucoma Risk in Individuals of African Descent
Measuring the amphibian meltdown

47 institutions in 14 German Federal States will take part in the Open Access Week 2009.
Prevention of Winter Depression
Iran’s science minister does science the easy way: by plagiarizing [updated]
Glenn Beck and left-right confusion
Getting a jump on journalism bootstrapping
‘You and Your Research’ (PDF), or how to become the ultimate Ivory Tower insider.
Elaine Marshall is running for Senate.
Raleigh News & Observer has a new website – what do you think? Improvement, but is it going far enough?
Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind
Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report – Four models for participatory projects: contribution, collaboration, co-creation, co-option
Participatory Journalism … what’s it all about?
If You Want to Catch a Liar, Make Him Draw
57 College Presidents Declare Support for Legislation to Ensure Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the U.S.
Stunning shots of thirsty bats swooping down for a drink from garden pond
Bad news for bloggers and citizen journalists: Shield law: Definition of ‘journalist’ gets professionalized
NIH Administrators Ignore the Advice of Peer Review Panels- OH NOES!!!!!
Explainers for hire: Research for hire: A revenue model for the news? and Commoncraft – science, PR or journalism?
Clay Shirky on the future of news
There is no single future for scientific journals
RT @jayrosen_nyu: Academics show how media reported ACORN charges “without investigating truth or falsity” – PDF.
Data sharing after publication
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good
No duh: Surgery success is not linked to phases of the moon
I Don’t Want To Hear About Distributed Conversations Any More
Only a week left till next Blog Pick of the Month at PLoS ONE – make sure it is aggregated on ResearchBlogging.org
RT @StacyCBaker Science teachers or anyone interested please call in during my segment on NPR Science Friday this week (2:20-3:00).
EduPunks: RT @academicdave : Washington Monthly, WaPo and NPR.
How Federico Caprilli changed the way we jump horses: and now we have Prix Caprilli and Caprilli School
On Futurity.org and science journalism: Carl Zimmer – Apocalypse Via Press Release and John Timmer – PR or science journalism? It’s getting harder to tell
GOP Favors Public Option for Property, Not People (former NY Times investigative reporter writes at Firedoglake)

Triangle is first stop in U.S. global health revamp
CNN’s New Journalism Strategy: Out-Dumbass The Internet (video)
Why Fall Colors Are Different in U.S. and Europe
Cartooning Evolution Home, 1861-1925 – awesome evolution-themed cartoons from old newspapers.
UNC pharmacy prof Stephen Frye on Ernie Hood’s Radio In Vivo today at noon EDT on WCOM-FM
Survey of Healthcare in America and an Argument for Change
The once-quiet scientist – A former animal researcher decides to speak out.
The Obama Roadblock: Why He’s Sagging Online
The wrong way to do it – Graphing data on healthcare on TV – inept or politically motivated?
Diversity in Science Carnival in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month: Call for Submissions!
Easy + Easy + Easy = Impossible – awesome multi-oscillator system (+ video).
Don’t be such a scientist: A review
Science: Appreciating the process, not just the products
Pigs on the loose outside Stokesdale Elementary
What Birthers Want – Notes From an Exclusive Interview With Orly Taitz.
Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense Contractors, Others Charged With Fraud (Glenn Greenwald says: “If we had real media this would be a huge story: it sums up everything and therefore will be ignored”)
He Traded Company for Caves to Study Effects of Isolation – RIP Maurizio Montalbini, an unorthodox circadian researcher.
Raleigh-Durham area ranks third in U.S. for college degrees
Article-Level Download Metrics–What Are They Good For?
Clay Shirky and accountability journalism and Clay Shirky’s bracing dystopianism and Clay Shirky’s bracing dystopianism.
47 institutions in 14 German Federal States will take part in the Open Access Week 2009.
Google Wave Team Gives Up on Internet Explorer – If you want to continue using Internet Explorer at your own peril….
The First Long Table Dinner – Lenore blogged it. I was there.
I also went to Techie Tuesday at RTP and took a few pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
And I got new glasses and posted a ton of new pictures of myself on Facebook.