New Gibraltar blog by Clive Finlayson
Clive Finlayson has started a new blog featuring some of the day-to-day story of ongoing fieldwork at Gorham’s and Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar: “Clive Finlayso...
Clive Finlayson has started a new blog featuring some of the day-to-day story of ongoing fieldwork at Gorham’s and Vanguard Caves, Gibraltar: “Clive Finlayso...
Jason Antrosio has composed a short report on the “Anthropology Blogosphere 2013 Ecology of Online Anthropology”. I appreciate his kind words about my work ...
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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...
Anthropologist Barbara J. King has begun a stint as a writer at the NPR science and culture blog, 13.7. In her introductory post, she gives a prècis of the f...
I don’t read Spanish well, but I read it well enough to know that Millán Mozota’s blog, “EL NEANDERTAL TONTO QU TIMO!” (the stupid Neandertal – what a con jo...
Stephen T. Casper writes on “Why academics should blog”, with an interesting historical perspective. Once upon a time, faculty clubs, dining facilities and p...
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...
Recently Jay Rosen tweeted (via Storify):
On the topic of the archaeology of South Asia, I want to point readers to Sheila Mishra’s blog. She has picked up a number of topics of recent interest, incl...
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 ...
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...
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...
Conservation biologist Eleanor Sterling is running a blog of field notes from a survey for langurs in Vietnam, in the NY Times “Scientist at Work” blog zone.
May I just say, I’m really enjoying Junk Charts lately? Nothing specific, just consistently good postings.
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...
This is part 2 of my four-part series on blogging and tenure. In the last installment, I mentioned the kinds of motivations that might drive a tenure-track ...
I’ve received a tremendous response to my essay earlier this week, the first part of my series on blogging and tenure. I wanted to thank everyone for their c...
This is the first of a series on blogging and tenure. Each installment covers a different portion of the tenure process, from starting and establishing the t...
Carl Zimmer has moved his blog, The Loom, to Discover magazine’s stable of blogs.
The Scientist is asking you to vote for your favorite life science blogs. Razib was kind enough to mention yours truly. They are giving you a chance to list...
For the next week, the Just Science aggregator (feed) will be picking up posts from a few dozen science blogs, who have committed to a post a day of just sc...
I found out from a reader this morning that Dennis Etler has a blog called "Sinanthropus" -- and it's excellent! If you haven't seen his long-standing websi...
Another in the series of "10 questions" interviews, this one with Steven Pinker. It touches on the politics of gender at Harvard, his upcoming book, and inc...
The Jane Goodall Institute has a blog, which has been updated daily for some time. According to the description:
Dienekes came up with his own set of predictions for next year. I have to say I love this one:
The American Museum of Natural History has set up a Darwin website to accompany their Darwin exhibit. It's pretty good -- not too heavy on detail, and nicel...
The Freakonomics guys have a blog, and this week they are having guest posts from Seth Roberts, who has developed a new diet through self-experimentation. U...
August seems to be a month of self-reflection. Maybe it's that everyone is on vacation. There certainly hasn't been much anthropology news, although work he...
I posted on the three-part PBS special "Guns, Germs and Steel," but I didn't watch it myself. I tried for a few minutes, but it didn't grab me. Maybe I'll c...
The Chronicle of Higher Education is running this pseudonymous column discussing the perception of blogs by academic hiring committees. It includes some imp...
A very interesting post by Pharyngula scribe P. Z. Myers that helps to put the geologic legacy of western Kansas into perspective. This is the part of the s...
A blog carnival is a selection of self-submitted articles following a theme of topics. A good one in the area of science and medicine is The Tangled Bank.