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November 25, 2009
bioephemera
The ephemeral newspaper: giving thanks fog 10 Steven Hight In the growling gray light (San Francisco still has foghorns), I collect the San Francisco Chronicle from the wet steps. I am so lonely I must subscribe to three papers - the Wall Street Journal,...
November 24, 2009
The Book of Trogool
Peer review, data quality, and usage metrics Another case of things connecting up oddly in my head— "How do we know whether a dataset is any good?" is a vexed question in this space. Because the academy is accustomed to answering quality questions with peer review, peer...
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Best Science Books 2009: Strategy+Business Obviously, Strategy+Business is not going to be core science books, but I've always included social media, technology and innovation books in my very broad definition of science books. There are a couple of categories that have some very fine books...
A Blog Around The Clock
November 23, 2009
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Best Science Books 2009: Library Journal Unfortunately, LJ's Best Books 2009: 31 Titles, Plus Best Genres & How-To doesn't have a dedicated science section but there are a few good recommendations nevertheless. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman The Strangest Man:...
Neurotopia
Book Review: Don't be SUCH a Scientist Sci had a LOT of trouble with this book. It took me a long time to read it. This is mostly because Sci, unlike many people on the internet, actively avoids things that make her mad or negatively impact her...
November 21, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
National Day of Listening (and blogging about it) The second annual National Day of Listening - celebrated on Friday, November 27, 2009 - is just around the corner! With your help, we hope to make the National Day of Listening an ongoing holiday tradition, when all Americans...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - Program highlights 3 Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 11:30am - 12:35pm: A. Legal Aspects of publishing, sharing and blogging science - Victoria Stodden Description: Not giving legal...
November 20, 2009
The World's Fair
O.K. For what it's worth - I'm finally on twitter. Send on some suggestions for science scout badges... ... because I have tuesday afternoon cleared for updating the science scout site a bit. Plus, although I'm a bit apprehensive jumping into this media (more from a time suck perspective), I am keen to see if it has any...
bioephemera
TGIF: Annals of Gullibility If I weren't so darn busy, I'd be tempted to read this book: As you can tell from the photo, I've been spending a lot of time in the library. Sorry for the low post volume - I have quite...
The Primate Diaries
The Primate Diaries on Facebook Now At 400! You just crossed the 400 mark at The Primate Diaries facebook fan page. If you're on facebook and follow this blog you should stop in and say hello. Comments here are always appreciated but if you would like to share...
November 19, 2009
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Ask Dr. Isis - How Do You Make Time to Write? For the record, I almost titled this blog post, "Ask Dr. Isis - How are You So Hot?" But, man, that would have taken hundreds of thousands of words. My amazing science aside, there are a bazillion reasons I am...
DrugMonkey
The #retweetFAIL The smart bet is that this complete and utter screwup is driven entirely by some scheme to monetize rather than by what they think users actually want.
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants Continuing with the series (I get more and more feedback that people love this) introducing, a few at a time, the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what. Anil...
November 18, 2009
Christina's LIS Rant
Science journal publishers experimenting with different models It seems like there was nothing new from the established publishers for a while - nothing with their core business. Some experimented with ways to communicate and most updated content management systems, but it seemed like most weren't touching their...
DrugMonkey
Repost: A Modest Proposal on Impact Factors People argue back and forth over whether Impact Factor of journals, the h-index, Total Cites, specific paper cites, etc should be used as the primary assessment of scientific quality. Many folks talk out of both sides of their mouths, bemoaning the irrelevance of journal Impact Factor while beavering away to get their papers into those journals and using the criterion to judge others. In this you will note people arguing the case that makes their CV look the best. I have a proposal:
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Librarians and social media engagement Or, Twitter & blogs as ways of knowing, Part 2. A month or so ago, I poked a little gentle fun at social media extremists, basically exploring the idea that engaging online is the be-all and end-all of the library...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants I have to say I am myself enjoying doing these introductory posts. I get to Google people, see who they are and what they've been up to lately, discover stuff about friends' past careers I did not know, find them...
November 17, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
NESCent Travel Award - only two weeks left to submit your entries! The application deadline for the NESCent blogging competition and travel award to ScienceOnline2010 is December 1, 2009. So hurry up - see the contest conditions and entries so far and meet the judges. So, hurry up. Write (or choose an...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...
DrugMonkey
When was the last time I bashed the Impact Factor, anyway? There's a new entry up over at the Golden Thoughts blog (she's a nephrologist, so..yes) that talks about the all important journal Impact Factor, Harold Varmus' opinion of same and journals gaming the system. Dr. Varmus pointed out that many...
A Blog Around The Clock
Introducing the (rigorously peer-reviewed, of course) PLoS store! If you ever saw me at a conference, you probably asked me for one of the famous PLoS t-shirts. Or you did not even have to ask - I just gave you one. Or perhaps you won one of our...
The Primate Diaries
The Giant's Shoulders #17 - Darwin Sesquicentennial Edition On November 24, 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Then, as now, many people were made uncomfortable to think that human beings could be related to the "lower" animals and this discomfort was regularly represented in popular...
November 16, 2009
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Top 5 Must-Read Social Media Books Sort of related to my ongoing series of Best Science Books 2009 lists, here's a nice list of the top 5 social media books I found on Mashable, via Tara Hunt. They're all 2009 books, after all. The list is...
November 15, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Every session at ScienceOnline2010 has its own page If you go either to the page that lists all the Friday morning Workshops or the main Saturday/Sunday Program page you will see that each session has a title, names (and links to homepages) of moderators and a brief...
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