Link: Science blogs back!
Nature this week has a nice feature article on blogging in science, by Eryn Brown and Chris Woolston: “Why science blogging still matters”.
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Link: Blogging and careers
This is a nice piece in ChronicleVitae by Terry McGlynn: “Why Blogging Is Still Good for Your Career”.
Science blogs changing with the times?
A short piece “On the evolution of the science blogosphere” by the Andy Extance of the ScienceSeeker team has some interesting notes on current statistics in...
Quote: Dave Winer on blogging
From Dave Winer: “A note about blogging”.
An eleventh year of blogging
I don’t have an official anniversary date for blogging. I had many false starts, and I spent a good part of 2004 developing the current iteration of the blog...
Rising Star Expedition update
For the past five days, I’ve been cataloguing dozens of fossils from the Rising Star site. The National Geographic Rising Star Expedition blog has some incre...
The brains behind an exhibition
Sara Perry writing on Savage Minds, this time with an interesting historical story about the Wellcome Collection’s recent “Brains: Mind as Matter” exhibition...
Backreaction on science blogging advice
Sabine Hossenfelder gives some useful advice about “Should you write a science blog?”.
Speak up and matter
Current Biology is running a short editorial by Geoffrey North, wishy-washing its way through a non-opinion about the value of blogging in science (“Social M...
Blogging in biological anthropology profile
Nature’s “SpotOn” feature has interviewed University of Rhode Island biological anthropologist Holly Dunsworth about her social media mastery: “Social Media ...
Anthropology's online ecology
Jason Antrosio has composed a short report on the “Anthropology Blogosphere 2013 Ecology of Online Anthropology”. I appreciate his kind words about my work ...
Blog of the seven veils
Why should academics consider blogging, and when should they band together to work on a group blog? An interview from early 2012 helps to answer those questi...
Ceramics in the Epigravettian of Croatia
I’ve had a paper on my desktop for more than a week expecting to write a comment on it, and now happily I discover that the first author, Becky Farbstein, ha...
Quote: Dave Winer on the power of blogging
Software designer and blogging pioneer Dave Winer:
Making a difference via blogging
Paul Knoepfler, a UC-Davis cell biologist, runs a very active blog in which he discusses the science of stem cells. One of his recurrent themes is strong cri...
"The print edition of any article is little more than a trophy version"
Jack Hitt writing in the NY TImes writes some thoughts on the way that online post-publication commentary and review are changing the authority of scientific...
Zeigarnik, bane of bloggers
Maria Konnikova takes a psychological experiment on memory into an excursion on literature: “On writing, memory, and forgetting: Socrates and Hemingway take ...
Re-prioritizing faster communication
Two experts on social policy from the London School of Economics comment on the importance of blogging and public outreach for academics, in an interview rep...
Session notes from our ScienceOnline2012 classroom blogging session
Andrea Novicki has published some of her notes on the session that I organized with Jason Goldman at ScienceOnline2012: “Blogging in the undergraduate classr...
Blogs rank high in online education
This morning I read a notice from our Division of Continuing Studies, pointing to how their online resource library had received more than one million visits...
XMRV saga develops
John Timmer’s reporting on the rise and fall of the hypothesis that XMRV causes chronic fatigue syndrome is the best I’ve seen so far on the topic: “How a Co...
Digital anthropology panel
Daniel Lende reports on the AAA panel on Digital Anthropology: Projects and Platforms.
Growing teeth
Zachary Cofran has been dissertation blogging about his work on dental development in robust australopithecines: “Data, development and diets”. An interestin...
Social texting
My essay in Anthropologies (“What’s wrong with anthropology”) is cited by Monalisa Gharavi in a review for Social Text of David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The...
Blogs, academic discourse in economics
Paul Krugman comments on how the growth in academic blogs in economics is a continuation of publication trends that long predate the World Wide Web: “Our blo...
(someone else's) Tips on finding an audience
Consultant and former humanities student James Mulvey offers advice for how to make your online writing have more impact: “Expand your blog’s reach”. Yes, I’...
How to blog for your lab
Christie Wilcox makes a case that every lab should be doing science outreach on social media: “Social media for scientists Part 1: It’s our job, and Part 2: ...
An arsenical profile
Popular Science writer Tom Clynes gives us a long profile of Felisa Wolfe-Simon, who became a lightning rod for criticism after she authored an article claim...
Changing how academia works
An interesting conversation has emerged over the last few weeks on several economics and legal blogs, usefully encapsulated by Kim Krawiec at The Faculty Lou...
Blogging for scholars
Stephen T. Casper writes on “Why academics should blog”, with an interesting historical perspective. Once upon a time, faculty clubs, dining facilities and p...
Conference blogging by Sci
Scicurious has written a very nice howto giving concrete advice about blogging a conference: “How To Blog a Conference”. Lots and lots of good ideas and advi...
Users, not readers
Recently Jay Rosen tweeted (via Storify):
Social media in science
Last month, Virginia Gewin put an article in Nature about social media and science, which is now available online for free: “Social media: Self-reflection, o...
Best open letter ever
I so totally wish I’d thought of this first: “An Open Letter To People Who Think They Have Found The Artifact That Will Change Archaeology As We Know It”
Blogging archaeology
Following up on Nicolas Laracuente’s Storify collections of tweets from the SAA meetings, I wanted to point to his compilation from the Blogging Archaeology ...
The person attached
Colleen Morgan is preparing for a session on blogging and archaeology at the SAA meetings later this month and has started a carnival to highlight posts from...
Good science writing helps make good science
More than most will admit, scientists today depend on good science writing. What they read is coming from other scientists, from bloggers and students, and f...
The long tail
Do texts and tweets “change the nature of in-depth analysis”? Wired commentator Clive Thompson thinks so, because they take away the impetus for “middle-form...
Peerless critiques
Nature last week posted an open access editorial, “Response required”, on the need for authors of high-profile papers to engage with online commentary on blo...
Public engagement
Nature’s Gene Russo has a nice article this week about scientists’ attitudes toward colleagues who do lots of public outreach: “Outreach: Meet the press”.
Quote: John Lachs on blogging
From a piece in The Tennesseean, worthy of a place in the Onion except it’s apparently serious: “Internet bloggers uncrafted output completely self-serving”
This is a blog
Farhad Manjoo at Slate enters an essay, “This Is Not A Blog Post” hand-wringing about the convergence of blogs and magazines.
Field primatology
Noah Snyder-Mackler’s continuing series in the NY Times’ “Scientist at Work” blog has been providing a journal of his fieldwork on gelada baboons.
Saving science writing
Wired editor David Rowan wrote last week about “How to save science journalism”. It’s a long essay, discussing the problems traditional media outlets have su...
Blogging and teaching
If you’re an instructor curious about how to introduce blogs in your courses, you may want to read this post by Daniel Lende at the new Neuroanthropology. He...
PLoS Blogs
PLoS now has blogs. The announcement accentuates that they have an equal representation of scientists and science journalists.
Guardian science blogs
The Guardian now has a small network of science blogs. Their launch announcement includes this surprising factoid:
"Why do I need a big Web site to benefit from this?"
Kent Anderson: “Do you really need all that website?”
Blog networks' problems links
I’ve collected several links over the past few days to people thinking about the role of blog networks in the science blogome. Several essays worth reading i...
Quote: Dave Winer on bootstrapping
From Dave Winer’s discussion of bootstrapping and Web 2.0 technologies:
Opening a bibliography database for human evolution
UPDATE (2015-01-02): After moving the site to a different platform (Jekyll), I am no longer using the inline bibliography function. If you are looking for th...
Siphoning the firehose
Bora Zivkovic leaves ScienceBlogs and reminds us of the imprint that blogging has made on some careers in the last five years. Reading his thoughts on bloggi...
Snark and trade
If you haven’t had your fill of angsty petulance, then Scienceblogs and its stable of writers have been wading through Edward versus Jacob territory. Jonatha...
Meeting casts
I’m just back from the physical anthropology meetings. What a lot of interesting things there were – a few in the sessions, and many outside of them!
Has Technorati suddenly gotten useful again?
I had a surprise this weekend. After years of declining value through increasing noise, I’d essentially stopped checking my Technorati stats. What had degrad...
Bloggers and embargoes
An interesting factoid from Bora Zivkovic, writing about PLoS media coverage:
Your online presence
The Times Higher Education supplement:
Book notes: Free, by Chris Anderson
I read Chris Anderson’s book because it was, well, “Free”. The book’s thesis is simple: Sometimes people profit by giving things away.
Write with a knife
It’s that time of year again, when students all over the country are facing their first writing assignment. I always encourage a bloggy style – concise, jour...
Nature on conference blogging
Nature’s editorial, “How to stop blogging” (which might sound like a self-help piece), takes a position on the conference blogging issue:
Conference blogging, continued
Today’s Nature picks up the conference blogging story that I covered last week. An interesting perspective:
Blogging and reporting from meetings
No, I’m not doing that right now. Elizabeth Pennisi reports that some science writers are miffed about bloggers at scientific conferences:
Blogging not for everyone
The New York Times has a story in its Fashion section: “Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest”
Photoshop web colors
This is off the usual topics, but I mentioned once how poorly colors were coming out when I save sketchbook pieces as JPG. They look great in Photoshop, but ...
Science journalism, blogging, and the web
Nature (open access) discusses the decline of science journalism and the rise of blogs. The article profiles John Timmer, whose stuff at Nobel Intent I read ...
Sharing your work with the world: a workshop
I’m writing this post live from the Kaleidoscope program here at UW. My part of today’s program is a workshop on sharing your work with the world, using blog...
Nature: Don't worry, be bloggy
This week’s Nature has a surprising editorial about the value of scientific blogging:
Some blogging essays
Andrew Sullivan reflects in an essay in this month’s Atlantic about how blogging has evolved for him. I don’t usually read Sullivan, but this is well put tog...
Open science profile
The Boston Globe runs a piece on “open science” (big in the Boston area) and hits on an obvious problem: