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...
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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 ...
Mailbag: Graphing software
Re: graphics
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...
An anthropologist invades NPR
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...
Tonto? Que timo!
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...
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):
India archaeology blog
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...
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 ...
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...
Vietnam langur notes
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.
Junk Charts fan
May I just say, I’m really enjoying Junk Charts lately? Nothing specific, just consistently good postings.
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...
How to blog, get tenure and prosper: A very useful engine
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 ...
Graduate students and blogging
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...
How to blog, get tenure and prosper: Starting the blog
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...
Zimmer moves Loom to Discover
Carl Zimmer has moved his blog, The Loom, to Discover magazine’s stable of blogs.
Do you like the site? Here's your chance to vote
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...
"Just Science"
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...
A little touch of Etler
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...
Pinker interview on Gene Expression
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...
Gombe chimpanzee blog
The Jane Goodall Institute has a blog, which has been updated daily for some time. According to the description:
Definitely one for the top ten
Dienekes came up with his own set of predictions for next year. I have to say I love this one:
Darwin exhibit website
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...
Acne and anthropology
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...
The drive behind science-blogging
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...
The great Guns, Germs and Steel debates
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...
Academic job-seeking and weblogs
The Chronicle of Higher Education is running this pseudonymous column discussing the perception of blogs by academic hiring committees. It includes some imp...
P. Z. Myers on the Niobrara formation
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...
The Tangled Bank
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.