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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – on that TIME cover…, stem cells, invasive beetles, drowned Cretaceous birds, onset of autism, and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:28:35 +0000

- Eric Michael Johnson – Out of the Mouth of Babes

- Samer Fakhri – Empowering the Body to Fix Its Parts

- Miller Zou – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The Invasion of the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle

- Darren Naish – A drowned nesting colony of Late Cretaceous birds

- Dana Hunter – When You’re Doing Geology, You’ve Got To Break a Few Rocks

- Judy Stone – TEDMED: Tougher topics to chew on

- Erin Podolak – The SA Incubator: Helping Hatch Science Writers Since July 2011

- Bora Zivkovic – The SA Incubator, or, why promote young science writers?

- Scicurious – ADHD: behavioral and cognitive therapies

- DNLee – Diversity in Science: Celebrating the people who do science

- Brendan Borrell – The Most Exciting Moment of My Scientific Career

- Mariette DiChristina – Searching for the Onset of Autism

- Michael Moyer – The Mathematician’s Obesity Fallacy

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#SciAmBlogs Monday – decaying aluminum, living photography, science movie consultant, octopus on ice, ugliest experiments, and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:03:54 +0000

Today we are happy to announce the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs – check out Molecules to Medicine!

And as usual on Mondays, we have the new Image of the Week.

- Harold Johnson – Time to can the round numbers

- Stephanie Zvan – The Gravity of the Situation

- Christina Agapakis- Living Photography

- Bora Zivkovic – How barley domesticated its clock and Why social insects do not suffer from ill effects of rotating and night shift work? and Domestication – it’s a matter of time (always is for me, that’s my ‘hammer’ for all nails)

- Jennifer Ouellette – Prime Suspect: Did the Science Consultant Do It?

- S.E. Gould – Ancient Diseases of Human Ancestors

- Scicurious – Methylating Your Muscle DNA

- Lucas Brouwers – Livestock bacteria are as old as the livestock they kill

- Ferris Jabr – Know Your Neurons: The Discovery and Naming of the Neuron

- David Bressan – The Ghosts of Catastrophes Past

- Katherine Harmon – Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Recorded In Octopus DNA

- Bonnie Swoger – Wikipedia + Journal articles

- Jim Perkins – Dots, Spots, and Pixels: What’s In A Name?

- Melissa C. Lott – Energy Storage – For More Than Renewables

- Alyssa Dykman – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The California Spiny Lobster

- Ben Linhoff – Following the Ice: Greenland

- John Horgan – What Are Science’s Ugliest Experiments?

- Judy Stone – Welcome to Molecules to Medicine!

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Essay Competition By The Journal Development

- Joanne Manaster – A Biologist’s Mother’s Day Song and “King of the Nerds” TV Game Show Casting-Urgent

- Kelly Oakes – What I missed: Juice, supernova origins, Vesta’s secrets and an invisible exoplanet

- Bora Zivkovic – Welcome Molecules to Medicine – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs and Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far and ScienceOnline events this month

- Mariette DiChristina – How Neuroscientists and Magicians Are Conjuring Brain Insights

- Gary Stix – Walking as Search: Google Glasses May Not Be a Good Idea

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Welcome Molecules to Medicine – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs

Bora Zivkovic — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:26:10 +0000

I am very excited to announce the latest addition to the #SciAmBlogs network – Molecules to Medicine, by Dr. Judy Stone.

Judy Stone, MD is an infectious disease specialist, experienced in conducting clinical research. She is the author of Conducting Clinical Research, the essential guide to the topic. As she says, ‘she survived 25 years in solo practice in rural Cumberland, Maryland, and is now broadening her horizons. She particularly loves writing about ethical issues, and tilting at windmills in her advocacy for social justice. As part of her overall desire to save the world when she grows up, she has become especially interested in neglected tropical diseases. When not slaving over hot patients, she can be found playing with photography, friends’ dogs, or in her garden.’

You can check out many years’ worth of archives on her old blog Politics, Science, and Other Assorted Musings, or follow her on Twitter @drjudystone.

If you are a regular reader of the Scientific American Guest Blog, you have probably read several of Dr.Stone’s previous posts:

Now go and say Hi to Judy in the comments on her first post, then subscribe to or bookmark her blog so you don’t miss the future posts.

Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

Bora Zivkovic — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:53:32 +0000

It is now expected by the science blogosphere that I post the full updated listing of all the submissions every Monday morning. This serves as a reminder for bloggers to submit their (and other people’s) posts, and to some extent prevents duplicate entries. But most importantly, it presents a growing listing of some of the most exciting work on science blogs. This is a weekly post where bloggers can discover each other and discover blogs they were not previously aware of. Thus it is also a promotion for all the bloggers involved.

The submission form for the 2013 edition of Open Lab is now open. Any blog post written since October 1, 2011 is eligible for submission. We will close the form on October 1st, 2012.

We accept essays, stories, poetry, cartoons/comics, and original art.

Once you are done submitting your own posts, you can start looking at the others’, including on aggregators like ScienceSeeker.org, Scienceblogging.org and Researchblogging.org.

The 2012 edition can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com and Amazon UK. You can buy the last five annual collections here. You can read Prefaces and Introductions to older editions here.

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3 Quarks Daily (Julia Galef): My Little Pony: Reality is Magic!

The II-I- blog: We, the pioneers.
The II-I- blog: The Great Revolution

A Blog Around The Clock: The New Meanings of How and Why in Biology?
A Blog Around The Clock: #scio12: Multitudes of Sciences, Multitudes of Journalisms, and the Disappearance of the Quote.
A Blog Around The Clock: Books: ‘Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science’ by Michael Nielsen
A Blog Around The Clock: Myths about myths about Thanksgiving turkey making you sleepy

A Hippo on Campus: Why men don’t listen and women are great at maths

A Schooner of Science: Fever dreams – the true tale of Richard Spruce

Addiction Inbox: Reward and Punish: Say Hello to Dopamine’s Leetle Friend
Addiction Inbox: Army Doctor Sees Victory, and a Dangerous Drug Bites the Dust—Almost.
Addiction Inbox: Night Owls Get a Coffee Break

Almost Diamonds: About Those Gay Homophobes
Almost Diamonds: Writing Fiction with Science: Pedophilia
Almost Diamonds: About That Evo Psych Polygamy Stuff

Anole Annals: If You Want A Lizard To Run Fast, Yell At It

Anthropology in Practice: Beware: The Ides Have Come. No, Really. This Time It’s True.

Artologica: From the Cells to the stars

Beach Chair Scientist: An important call for more forage fish to remain in the sea
Beach Chair Scientist: Dear Online Science Writing Community: A reminder for ‘call to actions’ because your perspective is priceless

Beatrice the Biologist: How the Brain Works (cartoon)

Biobabel: On Transposable Elements and Regulatory Evolution

The Bug Chicks (Michael Barton): A taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!

Bug Girl’s Blog: How to get free media coverage for a bogus beehive design
Bug Girl’s Blog: Transcript of my ESA talk about Social Media

Byte Size Biology: The Search for Small finds Life on a Gradient
Byte Size Biology: So what’s new with humans?
Byte Size Biology: Using phylogenetics to reconstruct a 59 million year old drug
Byte Size Biology: Life is short
Byte Size Biology: The Origin of Gender Symbols in Biology

Cedar’s Digest: Purple Doesn’t Exist: Some thoughts on Male Privilege and Science Online

The Cellular Scale: The “Human Neuron”, not so special after all?

CENtral Science IYC 2011: Chemistry Carnival: Your Favorite Chemical Reactions!

Chemjobber: How do institutions change? Not easily

Chimeras: Another genetic puzzle: why is mitochondrial DNA only inherited from the mother’s side?

Cocktail Party Physics: The Science of Mysteries: Of Granular Material and Singing Sands

Contagions: Mapping Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England
Contagions: Did India and China Escape the Black Death?

Cosmic Variance (Sean Carroll): Everything is Connected

Curiouser and Curiouser: James Randi: An Honest Liar
Curiouser and Curiouser: On Stanislaw Burzynski, the Streisand Effect, and Standing Up for Skeptical Bloggers
Curiouser and Curiouser: On Codes of Conduct, Part II

The Curious Wavefunction: The unstoppable Moore hits the immovable Eroom

Deep Sea News (Miriam Goldstein): A wicked bad idear: National Geographic hunts bluefin tuna for entertainment and Eating Wicked Tuna: A marine scientist tries to figure out what the heck is going on fused into a single post.
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): On common names
Deep Sea News (Kevin Zelnio): #IamScience: Embracing Personal Experience on Our Rise Through Science
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): No fish is an island
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets
Deep Sea News (Alistair Dove): A (fetid) river runs through it, the Brooklyn edition
Deep Sea News (Alexis Rudd): True Confessions of a Dolphin-Loving Marine Biologist
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain): Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Deep Sea News (Craig McClain and Alistair Dove): James Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy’s junket?

Deep Thoughts and Silliness: The Problems of Interpreting Data

Denim and Tweed: Baby steps versus long jumps: The “size” of evolutionary change, and why it matters

DiverseScholar: #SCIO12 Policy Report: Academia is Productive but Messy – Effects on (Mis)Communication

Eruptions: Looking Back at the 1982 eruption of El Chichón in Mexico
Eruptions: The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.

EvoEcoLab: The Message Reigns Over the Medium
EvoEcoLab: Trying to Catch His Breath With a Hole-Ridden Safety Net

The Febrile Muse: Inflammatory Language No 1. The ongoing cycle

From The Lab Bench: Google Search Engine Software goes ‘Chemistry’
From The Lab Bench: Old News for Carbon Dioxide, New Threats for Climate Change

Gaines, on Brains: Seeing into the future? The neuroscience of déjà vu

Galileo’s Pendulum: If You Love a Flower Found on a Star

GeoSphere: The Art of Geology

Green Tea and Velociraptors: What is a Fossil Species..?
Green tea and Velociraptors: Dinosaurs: Then and Now

The Happy Scientist: Teach It Right the First Time.

The Haystack: How Jagabandhu Das made dasatinib possible
The Haystack: On Birth Control,“Plan B,” and…Batman
The Haystack: Biogen Idec Reveals Clinical Data for (Really) Small Oral MS Drug BG-12

ICBS Everywhere: Science and Spin Are Very Bad Bedfellows
ICBS Everywhere: Are Atheists More Compassionate or Prosocial Than Highly Religious People?

In the Company of Plants and Rocks: Taxonomy of Agaves and Vino-mezcal

io9 (Maria Konnikova): What Happens When Alice and Anti-Alice Meet? (A Celebration of Lewis Carroll’s 180th Birthday)
io9 (Annalee Newitz): You are bitching about the wrong things when you read an article about science

Iqsoft science blog: Dilemma

Just Like Cooking: Petition Expedition – Cancer in Laundry Detergent?
Just Like Cooking: This Just In – File Under ‘Huge Marine Polyethers’
Just Like Cooking: Did Someone Say Pink Slime?
Just Like Cooking: hERG: Legs, Drugs, and Heartbeats
Just Like Cooking: Super Tasters and Smells in Space
Just Like Cooking: The Chemistry Popularity Conundrum

Katatrepsis: Why are there imperfect mimics?

KatiePhD: What exactly is a genetically modified plant?
KatiePhD: The Trouble with Teeth…
KatiePhD: Pain-free but itchy: Morphine’s alter ego

LabHomepage: Getting in on the ‘what they think’ meme

Last Word on Nothing (Sally Adee): Better Living Through Electrochemistry
Last Word on Nothing (Christie Aschwanden): What beer and running taught me about science (part 1 of 2) and/or Life without beer: part 2 of my beer & running science experiment

Life Traces of the Georgia Coast: Georgia Life Traces as Art and Science

Listen to Us!: Moby the Manta Ray

Literally Psyched: Our Storytelling Minds: Do We Ever Really Know What’s Going on Inside?

Lithics: Fault Dynamics 101

Magma Cum Laude: This is what a geologist looks like

My Growing Passion: When Plants Parasitise Fungi: myco-heterotrophy

Neurophilosophy: Sleights of hand, sleights of mind

Neurotic Physiology: Do you love Science? Well, that depends, do you like sleep?
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Does your menstrual blood attract BEARS?!
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: Laptops and WIFI are coming for your SPERM. Again.
Neurotic Physiology: Overeating and Obesity: Should we really call it food addiction?
Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: The Social Psychology of Flatulence

Observations (Ferris Jabr): Animals Exposed to Virtual Reality Hold an Emergency Meeting

The Organometallic Reader: Ligand Field Theory & Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory

Oscillatory Thoughts: Automated Science, Deep Data, and the Paradox of Information

Powered by Osteons: From Birth to Burial: the Curious Case of Easter Eggs
Powered by Osteons: Childbirth and C-Sections in Bioarchaeology
Powered by Osteons: Line on the left, one cross each: Bioarchaeology of Crucifixion
Powered by Osteons: A Brief History of Bioarchaeology – Part I: America
Powered by Osteons: Lead Poisoning in Rome – The Skeletal Evidence

Providentia: That X-ray Vision
Providentia: Why Are People So Skeptical About Psychology?

PsySociety: Why Jersey Shore Won’t Make You Dumber: The Importance Of Responsible Science Journalism
PsySociety: If I Were A Well-Off White Man… I Might Not Understand Other People Very Well.

Quantum Diaries: Error Control in Science

Reciprocal Space: What’s your favourite colour?

Reportergene: Where are your cells from?
Reportergene: Packaging madness

The Scicurious Brain: Cocaine and the sexual habits of quail, or, why does NIH fund what it does?
The Scicurious Brain: It hurts so good: the runner’s high

Science Calling: Seeing through sound

Science. How hard can it be?: A tale of generations
Science. How hard can it be?: When we become nature’s mice.

Science Is Everyone’s Story: The Health Cost of Black Women’s Hair Products
Science Is Everyone’s Story: Energy Journalism: Cleaning up the Numbers

Science Sushi: Evolution: The Rise of Complexity
Science Sushi: Time – and brain chemistry – heal all wounds
Science Sushi: The Joke Isn’t Funny – It’s Harmful

The Scorpion and the Frog: The “Love Hormone” Pageant and The “Love Hormone” of 2012 fused into one.

Skulls in the Stars: François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world!

Social Dimension: New Ways to Measure Science
Social Dimension: The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes

Southern Fried Science: If fish evolved on land, where did they all go? Evolution and Biodiversity in the Ocean

Speakeasy Science: Cough Syrup, Dead Children, and the Case for Regulation

Squid A Day: Neurotoxins In Stranded Squid (With Bonus Rant About Academic Publishing)
Squid A Day: Why Aren’t Humboldt Squid Giant?

Starts with a Bang: So, you’ve learned that the Sun is going to explode…

The Starving Neuron: Fooled by the senses.
The Starving Neuron: 24 hours in the lab
The Starving Neuron: Bad behaviour

This View of Life: There is Grandeur (Really)

Token Skeptic: Eye-Witness To A Crime And Not Raisins – Reflections On The Bystander Effect In Helping Behaviour
Token Skeptic: The Special-Ness Of Species
Token Skeptic: Live-Blogging #ASC2012 – Monday Morning At The Australian Science Communicators National Conference

Trauma Recovery: Parents tell about their children’s recovery from trauma

The Virtuosi: A Very Small Slice of Pi

Watershed Moments: Tree die-off in western North America
Watershed Moments: C is for Communication
Watershed Moments: Food, water & energy

We Beasties: Allergies 101
We Beasties: Allergies 101 – Part deux
We Beasties: Allergies 101: Part the Third

Words in mOcean: I’m a marine biologist, but sometimes I wish that what I did sounded a bit less interesting…

Zoonotica: How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 1 and How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 2

ScienceOnline events this month

Bora Zivkovic — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:59:15 +0000

There will be several ScienceOnline events over the next month or so:

ScienceOnlineSeattle is tonight, Monday, May 14th at 9:30pm EST (6:30pm PST), at William H. Gates Hall (Law), University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.

This month’s topic is Dances with Data with panelists Eugene Kolker, Dustin Smith, Hunter Hadaway and Rob Fatland. If you are in Seattle, sign up and go. If not, tune in to the livestream and follow the #soSEA hashtag on Twitter.

ScienceOnlineVancouver will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, May 15th at 10pm EST (7pm PST), at Science World at TELUS World of Science 1455 Quebec Street, Vancouver, BC Canada V6A 3Z7.

This month’s topic is Making Contact, with panelists Eric Michael Johnson and Raul Pacheco-Vega. If you are in Vancouver, sign up and go. If not, tune in to the livestream and follow the #soVAN hashtag on Twitter.

#NYCSciTweetUp #9 will be on June 2nd (most likely – but check the Facebook page in a few days for confirmation). No topic – this is an informal networking event. Everyone is welcome. The location depends on how many people indicate on Facebook they will show up. This is the week of the World Science Festival, when many guests out of town will be in New York, and the locals are all excited about science. So, this is usually the biggest NYCSciTweetUp of the year and our usual locations may not be large enough.

The exact dates of other events, e.g., evening events in New York City and San Francisco, and tweetups in Washington D.C., Chicago and Raleigh, have not been set yet. I will let you know when they are.

#SciAmBlogs Friday – eavesdropping, science education, dugongs, sunspots, Black studies, and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:20:43 +0000

- Jennifer Verdolin – The Art of Eavesdropping: Nature’s silent sniffers, watchers, and listeners

- Janet D. Stemwedel – Is it worth fighting about what’s taught in high school biology class?

- Jennifer Ouellette – Frost Flowers and Hot Capillary Action

- Christina Irvin – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Palauan Mermaids

- Jennifer Frazer – Postcards from Rangitoto, Part 2

- Allen Frances – Why Are There No Biological Tests in Psychiatry?

- DNLee – Black Studies is not a Course, it’s a Cause. Is it?

- Anna Kuchment – Evolution and Climate Change Must Be Taught in Schools, Say States

- Scicurious – Friday Weird Science: Any volunteers?

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Khalil’s Picks (11 May 2012)

- Bora Zivkovic – The Scienceblogging Weekly (May 11, 2012)

- Krystal D’Costa – Editor’s Selections: Reopening Graves and Understanding Attraction

- John Matson – Earth-Facing Sunspots Could Erupt This Weekend

- Sarah Fecht – Vaccination Campaign Addresses Need for Life-Saving Inoculations in Developing World

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#SciAmBlogs Thursday – sea cucumbers, brittle stars, polar bears, man-eating lions, Woody Allen and other charismatic megafauna.

Bora Zivkovic — Fri, 11 May 2012 03:55:43 +0000

- Jessica P. Hekman – Moving the Prestige to Open-Access Publishing

- Kate Clancy – Trade Time and Energy So You Can Live Slow, Reproduce Fast

- Darren Naish – The Man-Eater of Mfuwe

- John R. Platt – New Polar Bear Counting Method Creates Confusion

- Ingrid Wickelgren – The Gloom-and-Doom Disease: Should Woody Allens Have a Home in the Manual of Mental Illness?

- Roxi Aslan – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Global Sea Cucumber Fisheries

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Mary Beth Griggs

- Khalil A. Cassimally – I, Science: Student Science Magazine of Imperial College London

- DNLee – In Memoriam: MCA of The Beastie Boys

- Joanne Manaster – “It’s so FLUFEEEE!”: Otter 501, A must-see movie!

- Katherine Harmon – 5-Armed Brittle Stars Always Face Front [Video]

- John Matson – Israel’s Science Minister on Space Technology–for Peaceful and Militaristic Aims

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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday – upper-lower jaw mixup, data in the cloud, origins of war, DSM-5, separations, jewel caterpillars, mangroves and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:53:29 +0000

- Ricki Lewis – Body-Altering Mutations – In Humans and Flies

- Alan Woodward – Cloud Storage

- Krystal D’Costa – The Meaning of Goodbye

- John Horgan – What Thieving Seals Can Tell Us about War’s Roots

- Edward Shorter – Trouble at the Heart of Psychiatry’s Revised Rulebook

- Stephen Holle – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Human Impacts on Mangrove Forests

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Introducing: Smitha Mundasad

- DNLee – Checking in: good news, bad news, great news

- Scicurious – Experimental Biology Blogging: self-promotion and “self-promotion”

- Jason G. Goldman – ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections: Gateway Sex, Ghosts, and Texting

- Ferris Jabr – The Biology of the Translucent Jewel Caterpillar, The Nudibranch of the Forest

- David Biello – How to Rid the World of the “Element from Hell”

- Katherine Harmon – DNA Fingers Real-Life Captain Ahabs for Precipitous Decline of Gray Whales

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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – Where Wild Things Are, animal mimic robots, Haldane’s goat with ‘bends’, DSM-5, and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:19:27 +0000

In memory of Maurice Sendak, we have a new Video of the Week.

- Maria Konnikova – The Power of “Once upon a Time”: A Story to Tame The Wild Things

- Carin Bondar – Where the Wild Types Are – A Biology Parody Dedicated to Maurice Sendak

- Kara Rogers – Machine Counterpart: Nature’s New Creatures

- Madi Swayne – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The Contributions of J. S. Haldane to Dive Safety

- David Wogan – Remembering MCA of the Beastie Boys with a documentary about global water crises

- David Bressan – May 8, 1902: La Pelée

- Jason G. Goldman – Human Superpowers: The Vision Revolution by Mark Changizi [Book Review]

- John R. Platt – Amazing Video: First Camera Trap Footage of Critically Endangered Cross River Gorillas

- Anna Kuchment – Catch a Scene From “Charlotte’s Web” in Your Backyard

- Kevin Zelnio – Sweden Journal: Dunsjömåla

- Ferris Jabr – Science Remains a Stranger to Psychiatry’s New Bible

- Bora Zivkovic – What is: Generation Anthropocene?

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Douglas Main

- Robin Lloyd – Bronx Girl Scouts Pepper Scientific American with Smart, Science Questions

- Kalliopi Monoyios – Hangin’ with Theoretical Physicists

- George Musser – Particles for Peace: Iranian, Israeli, Turkish and Arab Physicists Lay Plans for a Joint Particle Accelerator

- Kate Wong – Could a Renewed Push for Access to Fossil Data Finally Topple Paleoanthropology’s Culture of Secrecy?

- David Biello – How to Feed the World While the Earth Cooks

- Larry Greenemeier – Google Is My Pilot: Nevada Gambles on Self-Driving Cars

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What is: Generation Anthropocene?

Bora Zivkovic — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:14:21 +0000

Invited guest-post by Miles Traer, producer for Generation Anthropocene

As I was walking through the wide, quiet, and unusually warm corridor of Braun Hall – Stanford University’s Geology building – I was stopped by one of the professors. He had recently contributed to our podcast, Generation Anthropocene, where we discuss the new geologic age with experts from a diverse set of fields. He mentioned the section in nearly every NSF grant that requires an outreach or science communication component – and that everyone who applies for these grants rolls their eyes or at least allows a short guffaw when they reach this section, knowing that its objective will seldom be fully met. So, what is Generation Anthropocene? At least partly, our podcast series is a way for scientists and other academics to keep the communication and lose the eye roll.

Generation Anthropocene is also an expression of the curiosity, enthusiasm and concern of 14 students, most of them undergraduates, who selected contributors and conducted in-depth interviews for the series. And it’s an expression of creative frustration on the part of two late-stage PhD candidates who wanted to do something outside the lab. And lately, it has become a pretty thrilling ride, as an idea cooked up listening to comedy podcasts while processing paleoclimate data to its release into the world and finding an audience much larger than we could have imagined.

Our podcast Generation Anthropocene is an experiment in interdisciplinary science communication. Over the past 4 months, creator Mike Osborne along with co-producers Miles Traer and Thomas Hayden offered a course to undergraduate students where they approached Stanford University faculty members who in one way or another are dealing with 21^st century environmental issues.

Our students elicited their expertise on the evolving perceptions of environmentalism, sustainability, and science. We spoke to geologists, engineers, ecologists, doctors, project managers, oceanographers, and historians on a wide variety of topics ranging from biodiversity loss to historical perceptions of the environment to agricultural systems to urban design to conservation philosophy. Generation Anthropocene became a cross-generational conversation, and perhaps at times even an interrogation, initiated by the curiosity of the new generation of students who will inherit the world we have created – all with the goal of furthering the public and academic discourse of global change through the lens of the newly proposed geologic boundary called the Anthropocene.

Make no mistake, the Earth is old and a lot has happened in its four-and-a-half billion-year history. Glaciers advance and retreat with each ice age, continents collide and extend, tropical belts expand and contract, mountains crawl skyward and erode back down, and oceans spread and shrink with each new tectonic configuration. All of this takes staggering amounts of time and with each event, the Earth changes the terms of life. These forces are geological, primal, and astonishingly powerful. And with the Anthropocene, geologists now debate humankind’s global impact as comparable to these forces and events.

A colleague of mine once said, “the failure to understand global environmental change is in many ways a failure of imagination.” Visualizations of the Anthropocene vary: Sprawling cityscapes where residences and commercial warehouses look like fungi growing upon a mossy hill – seemingly endless rows of pulsing steel oil platforms piercing the desert – greenhouses etched as neat polygons into the landscape that now appears broken and fractured like glass with each crystalline crack some tendril of a no-longer-natural stream. Such visualizations are visceral, but still somewhat local. Imagining your own residence is easy, your city more difficult, and an entire country bombarding you with a myriad of visual cues becomes nearly impossible.

Likewise, looking back through four-and-a-half billion years is not easy. The most common analogy I’ve heard is that of a clock, where the whole of Earth’s history is compressed onto a twelve hour face and humans appear only in last 2-3 seconds. Seconds we can understand, but each second on this abstracted façade represents roughly 100,000 years or 3,155,692,597,470 seconds. Try to explain the scale of 3 trillion anything and you end up with an unbearable university admissions essay. But to understand the magnitude and the importance of a potentially new geologic boundary caused by the global footprint of humankind, we must learn to reconcile the immense time scales of earth history with everything we know about human history. Communicating these concepts becomes all the more important.

If you ask any scientist about the quality of science communication, chances are they will say, “not very good,” or something akin to that. But media outlets are changing as the old paradigms of newspapers and magazines continue their gradual decline. In this new age, everyone has unprecedented access to the public through new media outlets such as twitter, blogs, and podcasts. Scientists need to take advantage of these new media to communicate their own work rather than waiting patiently for other outlets to discover their contributions. Generation Anthropocene is our attempt to do this.

What we like about podcasts is that they can be digested somewhat passively, taken in during a commute or while processing hundreds of samples. Whatever it is you take from listening to a conversation seems to us a very different animal than what you take from the written word. It is somehow more intimate. As the conversations evolve, your ears adjust to expect a pause, a drawn out hmm, or a quiver in the voice. Excitement becomes palpable, distress more personal, and that beautiful moment of hesitation before addressing a difficult question offers the listener a unique moment of personal reflection. It makes the contributors easier to empathize with, easier to identify… more human. Audio is the theater of the mind – of the imagination. Our hope is that the conversations we have recorded for Generation Anthropocene inspire the imagination and help connect our listeners to these global phenomena that are geological, primal, powerful, and human.

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Previously in this series:

What is: Open Laboratory 2011
What is: Science Online London
What is: #NYCSciTweetUp
What is: Science Online New York City
What Is: ScienceBlogging.org
What is: The Story Collider
What is: NASW
What is: #SciFund Challenge
What is: Journal of Science Communication
What is: ScienceOnline2012 – and it’s coming soon!
What is: ScienceSeeker.org
What is: ResearchBlogging.org
What is: The Young Australian Skeptics’ Skeptical Blog Anthology
What is: SciBarCamb?
What is: Petridish.org?
What is: USA Science & Engineering Festival
ScienceOnline NOW!
What is: ScienceOnline Seattle
What is: ScienceOnline Bay Area
What is: ScienceOnlineVancouver

#SciAmBlogs Monday – cartography, Impact Factor, social pressure, blood-thirsty microbes, ferns, supermoon, DSN-5 and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:47:27 +0000

Today we introduce Information Culture – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs.

As usual on Monday, we have a new Image of the Week for you to enjoy.

- Kate Prengaman – What Cartography taught me about science writing

- Elizabeth Preston – The deep [poem]

- Jessica Morrison – Can science save us? Mourdock sees a savior in science

- Bonnie Swoger – You have to share

- Hadas Shema – Introduction post – Hadas Shema and Understanding the Journal Impact Factor – Part One

- Krystal D’Costa – The Science of Social Pressure

- S.E. Gould – Pathogens that feed off human blood

- Jennifer Frazer – Ferns, Secret Ninja Ferns, and their Alluring Asexual Bits

- Christie Wilcox – Conservation is important – for the sake of our health

- Ilana Yurkiewicz – When practicing on patients can have real consequences

- Melissa C. Lott – Supermoon and a Unique View on Energy

- Caleb A. Scharf – Lonely Planets: Hot Jupiters Are Isolated

- Scicurious – Depressed mice, gene therapy, and p11

- Austin Hay – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Palau Water Supply

- Darren Naish – Thor Hanson’s Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

- Alex Wild – Techdirt: photographs of nature shouldn’t be copyrighted

- Bora Zivkovic – ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Sarah Chow

- Bora Zivkovic – Welcome Information Culture – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs and Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Audrey Quinn

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Call For Pitches To Nature, Guardian and Research Fortnight

- Ingrid Wickelgren – Psychiatrists Are About to Shift the Boundaries Between Sane and Insane

- Ferris Jabr – Field Tests for Revised Psychiatric Guide Reveal Reliability Problems for Two Major Diagnoses

- Mariette DiChristina – Champions of Science in Lancaster, Pa.

- Gary Stix – All Things Brain: Click on BrainFacts.org

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Welcome Information Culture – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs

Bora Zivkovic — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:29:41 +0000

How to do an efficient search? How can a librarian help you find obscure references? What is this “Open Access” thing all about? Why is there a gender gap among Wikipedia editors? How do science bloggers link to each other? Can tweeting a link to a paper predict its future citations? How to track down an un-linked paper mentioned in a media article? What is going on with eTextbooks?

Are these and related questions on your mind?

If so, now you have a place to go to get all of that information and more – a brand new blog here on the Scientific American blog network: Information Culture!

Information Culture is written by two co-bloggers – one is a science librarian and one is an information scientist, so the two of them will wonderfully complement each other to bring you up to date on every aspect of information technology.

Bonnie Swoger (Twitter) is a Science and Technology Librarian at a small public undergraduate institution in upstate New York, SUNY Geneseo. She teaches students about the science literature, helps faculty and students with library research questions and leads library assessment efforts. You can get a better feel for topics Bonnie covers if you look at her old blog – the Undergraduate Science Librarian.

Hadas Shema (Twitter) is an Information Science graduate student at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She studies the characteristics of online scientific discourse and is a member of the European Union’s Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN) project. To get a better idea what to expect from Hadas, dig through the archives of her previous blog – Science blogging in theory and practice.

Now go and say Hi to Hadas and Bonnie in the comments on their first posts, then subscribe to or bookmark their blog so you don’t miss the future posts.

Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

Bora Zivkovic — Mon, 07 May 2012 11:09:35 +0000

The submission form for the 2013 edition of Open Lab is now open. Any blog post written since October 1, 2011 is eligible for submission. We will close the form on October 1st, 2012.

We accept essays, stories, poetry, cartoons/comics, and original art.

Once you are done submitting your own posts, you can start looking at the others’, including on aggregators like ScienceSeeker.org, Scienceblogging.org and Researchblogging.org.

The 2012 edition can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com and Amazon UK. You can buy the last five annual collections here. You can read Prefaces and Introductions to older editions here.

Help us spread the word by displaying these badges (designed by Doctor Zen):

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Or take the Open Lab 2011 submission bookmarklet – Open Lab – and drag the link to your browser’s toolbar to have it always handy as you browse around science blogs.

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3 Quarks Daily (Julia Galef): My Little Pony: Reality is Magic!

The II-I- blog: We, the pioneers.
The II-I- blog: The Great Revolution

A Hippo on Campus: Why men don’t listen and women are great at maths

A Schooner of Science: Fever dreams – the true tale of Richard Spruce

Anole Annals: If You Want A Lizard To Run Fast, Yell At It

Anthropology in Practice: Beware: The Ides Have Come. No, Really. This Time It’s True.

Artologica: From the Cells to the stars

Beatrice the Biologist: How the Brain Works (cartoon)

The Bug Chicks (Michael Barton): A taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!

Bug Girl’s Blog: How to get free media coverage for a bogus beehive design
Bug Girl’s Blog: Transcript of my ESA talk about Social Media

Cedar’s Digest: Purple Doesn’t Exist: Some thoughts on Male Privilege and Science Online

The Cellular Scale: The “Human Neuron”, not so special after all?

CENtral Science IYC 2011: Chemistry Carnival: Your Favorite Chemical Reactions!

Chemjobber: How do institutions change? Not easily

Cocktail Party Physics: The Science of Mysteries: Of Granular Material and Singing Sands

Contagions: Mapping Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England
Contagions: Did India and China Escape the Black Death?

Cosmic Variance (Sean Carroll): Everything is Connected

The Curious Wavefunction: The unstoppable Moore hits the immovable Eroom

Deep Thoughts and Silliness: The Problems of Interpreting Data

Denim and Tweed: Baby steps versus long jumps: The “size” of evolutionary change, and why it matters

DiverseScholar: #SCIO12 Policy Report: Academia is Productive but Messy – Effects on (Mis)Communication

Eruptions: Looking Back at the 1982 eruption of El Chichón in Mexico
Eruptions: The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.

EvoEcoLab: The Message Reigns Over the Medium
EvoEcoLab: Trying to Catch His Breath With a Hole-Ridden Safety Net

The Febrile Muse: Inflammatory Language No 1. The ongoing cycle

From The Lab Bench: Google Search Engine Software goes ‘Chemistry’
From The Lab Bench: Old News for Carbon Dioxide, New Threats for Climate Change

Gaines, on Brains: Seeing into the future? The neuroscience of déjà vu

Galileo’s Pendulum: If You Love a Flower Found on a Star

GeoSphere: The Art of Geology

Green Tea and Velociraptors: What is a Fossil Species..?
Green tea and Velociraptors: Dinosaurs: Then and Now

The Happy Scientist: Teach It Right the First Time.

Iqsoft science blog: Dilemma

Katatrepsis: Why are there imperfect mimics?

KatiePhD: What exactly is a genetically modified plant?
KatiePhD: The Trouble with Teeth…
KatiePhD: Pain-free but itchy: Morphine’s alter ego

LabHomepage: Getting in on the ‘what they think’ meme

Life Traces of the Georgia Coast: Georgia Life Traces as Art and Science

Listen to Us!: Moby the Manta Ray

Literally Psyched: Our Storytelling Minds: Do We Ever Really Know What’s Going on Inside?

Lithics: Fault Dynamics 101

Magma Cum Laude: This is what a geologist looks like

My Growing Passion: When Plants Parasitise Fungi: myco-heterotrophy

Neurophilosophy: Sleights of hand, sleights of mind

Observations (Ferris Jabr): Animals Exposed to Virtual Reality Hold an Emergency Meeting

The Organometallic Reader: Ligand Field Theory & Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory

Oscillatory Thoughts: Automated Science, Deep Data, and the Paradox of Information

Providentia: That X-ray Vision
Providentia: Why Are People So Skeptical About Psychology?

PsySociety: Why Jersey Shore Won’t Make You Dumber: The Importance Of Responsible Science Journalism
PsySociety: If I Were A Well-Off White Man… I Might Not Understand Other People Very Well.

Quantum Diaries: Error Control in Science

Reciprocal Space: What’s your favourite colour?

Reportergene: Where are your cells from?
Reportergene: Packaging madness

The Scicurious Brain: Cocaine and the sexual habits of quail, or, why does NIH fund what it does?
The Scicurious Brain: It hurts so good: the runner’s high

Science Calling: Seeing through sound

Science. How hard can it be?: A tale of generations
Science. How hard can it be?: When we become nature’s mice.

Science Is Everyone’s Story: The Health Cost of Black Women’s Hair Products
Science Is Everyone’s Story: Energy Journalism: Cleaning up the Numbers

Science Sushi: Evolution: The Rise of Complexity
Science Sushi: Time – and brain chemistry – heal all wounds
Science Sushi: The Joke Isn’t Funny – It’s Harmful

The Scorpion and the Frog: The “Love Hormone” Pageant and The “Love Hormone” of 2012 fused into one.

Skulls in the Stars: François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world!

Social Dimension: New Ways to Measure Science
Social Dimension: The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes

Southern Fried Science: If fish evolved on land, where did they all go? Evolution and Biodiversity in the Ocean

Speakeasy Science: Cough Syrup, Dead Children, and the Case for Regulation

Squid A Day: Neurotoxins In Stranded Squid (With Bonus Rant About Academic Publishing)
Squid A Day: Why Aren’t Humboldt Squid Giant?

Starts with a Bang: So, you’ve learned that the Sun is going to explode…

The Starving Neuron: Fooled by the senses.
The Starving Neuron: 24 hours in the lab
The Starving Neuron: Bad behaviour

This View of Life: There is Grandeur (Really)

Token Skeptic: Eye-Witness To A Crime And Not Raisins – Reflections On The Bystander Effect In Helping Behaviour

The Virtuosi: A Very Small Slice of Pi

Watershed Moments: Tree die-off in western North America
Watershed Moments: C is for Communication

We Beasties: Allergies 101
We Beasties: Allergies 101 – Part deux
We Beasties: Allergies 101: Part the Third

Words in mOcean: I’m a marine biologist, but sometimes I wish that what I did sounded a bit less interesting…

Zoonotica: How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 1 and How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 2

#SciAmBlogs Friday – cat contraception, cat geology, neuroscience coverage, cyber attacks, #openlab, diving bends and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:57:54 +0000

Have a great weekend!

- The Dog Zombie – The Science and Policy of Contraception… in Cats

- Dana Hunter – Angular Unconformkitty

- David Wogan – The Yale Environment Review wants to brief you on the latest in environmental research

- Gerry Smith – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber

- Bora Zivkovic – Open Laboratory…getting closer!

- Bora Zivkovic – Bora’s picks (May 4, 2012)

- Scicurious – Friday Weird Science: When the going gets tough, the tough get a foot fetish

- Larry Greenemeier – Indian Researchers Develop Software to Stop Cyber Attack Bots

- Gary Stix – Neuroscience Coverage: Media Distorts, Bloggers Rule

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#SciAmBlogs Thursday – Monstersauria, Security Risk Analysis, CSI Volcano, smart alien dinosaurs, and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:11:35 +0000

There is a new Video of the Week for you to watch and enjoy.

- Darren Naish – Monstersauria vs Goannasauria

- Reut Rory Cohen – Security and Commerce: Finding a Balance in a Post-9/11 World with Risk Analysis Science

- Nature – Why Nature Published the Controversial Mutant Bird-Flu Paper

- David Bressan – Geology Scene Investigation: Death by Volcanic Fire

- Christie Wilcox – Playing in Tide Pools | Scientist in vivo

- John R. Platt – New Conservation Plan Will Protect Endangered Zebra Species

- Ian Le Guillou and Khalil A. Cassimally – BlueSci: Student Science Magazine of Cambridge University

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Jordan Gaines

- Charles Q. Choi – Worth Pitching? Intelligent alien dinosaurs and Worth Pitching? Intelligent alien dinosaurs, redux

- David Ginsburg – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Marine Ecology from Antarctica to Micronesia

- Bora Zivkovic – ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Joe Kraus

- Krystal D’Costa – Editor’s Selections: Properties of eyeliner, Rituals, Tales told by pottery, and Roman diets

- Ferris Jabr – Tiny Electronic Chips Restore Sight to Two Blind British Men and APA Announces New Changes to Drafts of the DSM-5, Psychiatry’s New “Bible”

- Daisy Yuhas – A Rose is a Rose, Until it Isn’t: Five Reasons Plant DNA is Totally Crazy

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#SciAmBlogs Wednesday – food, tweets in space, trepanation, bird flu, solar-powered catamaran and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Thu, 03 May 2012 04:59:20 +0000

- Diana Gitig – Having Your Meat and Eating it, Too?

- Scicurious – High fat diets and depression: a look in mice

- Robynne Boyd – Spring’s First Harvest: local organic produce

- Bora Zivkovic – ScienceOnline2012 – interview with Lali Derosier and Best of April at A Blog Around The Clock

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Natalie Wolchover

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Au Science Magazine: Student Science Magazine of University of Aberdeen

- Caleb A. Scharf – Tweets In Space!

- Charles Q. Choi – Worth Pitching? Lost civilization that punched holes in skulls

- Carin Bondar – Meet Science-Film Phenom Sophia Pink

- Jason G. Goldman – ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections: Neuronal Migration, Saying “I Love You”, Worm VR, and Light-up Sharks

- Mark Fischetti – Solar-Powered Catamaran Circles the Earth

- Fred Guterl – Controversial Bird-Flu Research Published: How Worried Should We Be?

- Gary Stix – Speculation Arises about the Role of Concussions in Another NFL Player’s Suicide

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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – Lovelock, evolution cartoons, pitching stories, pesticides, and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:23:51 +0000

May Day, but not everyone takes a day off from blogging

- Melanie Lenart – Visionary or Vision-Impaired? Lovelock Is Both

- Kalliopi Monoyios – Evolution Ha-Has (minus Gary Larson)

- Kevin Zelnio – Sweden Journal: Hem Igen

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Abby McBride

- Charles Q. Choi – Worth Pitching? Deception on LinkedIn and Worth Pitching? Two pitches that made it to The New York Times

- David Biello – Common Pesticide “Disturbs” the Brains of Children

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#SciAmBlogs Monday – dogs’ tools, digital divide, interdisciplinarity, CatCam, mentoring, rhino porn, impossible math and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Tue, 01 May 2012 05:30:54 +0000

Welcome back from the weekend. Also, welcome to our newest blogger – Ferris Jabr at Brainwaves!

Monday – time for the new Image of the Week!

- Jason G. Goldman – Dogs, But Not Wolves, Use Humans As Tools

- John R. Platt – The Most Eagerly Awaited Rhino Porn of All Time

- Maria Konnikova – On writing, memory, and forgetting: Socrates and Hemingway take on Zeigarnik

- Krystal D’Costa – The Diminishing Digital Divide

- Christie Rowe and Louise Anderson – A glimpse of what’s below: Logging While Drilling

- Susan Swanberg – A Scientific American

- Kirk Klocke – A Noble Betrayal

- Kate Clancy – I Can Out-Interdiscipline You: Anthropology and the Biocultural Approach

- S.E. Gould – Niches of Sunlight

- John Horgan – CatCam Probes Philosophical Puzzle: What Is It Like to Be a Cat?

- Janet D. Stemwedel – Whither mentoring?

- Dana Hunter – A Landscape in a Hand Sample: To Transform

- Cassie Rodenberg – Letter from a Marijuana Addict and Faces of Addiction Recovery in the Bronx (Photos)

- Kelly Oakes – A week in space: Mining asteroids, boats on Titan, bubbles inside bubbles inside bubbles, and more

- Jennifer Frazer – Postcards from Rangitoto

- Charles Q. Choi – Worth Pitching? Impossible Math

- Glendon Mellow – Science Art History: Glints in the Ghent

- Alex Wild – 6 Sources of Free Images for Science Blogging and When an artist copies a photograph, who gets the credit?

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Jessica Gross

- Bora Zivkovic – Welcome Brainwaves – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs and Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

- DNLee – Diversifying science and confronting my Impostor Syndrome

- Ferris Jabr – Welcome to Brainwaves

- Kevin Zelnio – Sweden Journal: A Long Road For a Breath of Fresh air

- Scicurious – Diversity in Science Carnival: Imposter Syndrome

- Darren Naish – Putting petrels in their place and the possibly weird evolution of albatrosses (petrels part IV)

- Robert English and Jim Haw – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: The International Policy Rationale for the Military Buildup on Guam and Some Environmental Drivers

- Larry Greenemeier – Mobile Apps Offer 3-D Printing Via the Cloud [Video]

- Christine Gorman – Global Health: Don’t Slap Your Name on Everything If You Want to Get Things Done

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Welcome Brainwaves – the newest blog at #SciAmBlogs

Bora Zivkovic — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:40:24 +0000

I am super-happy to announce the newest addition to our blog network!

Brainwaves is the new blog by Ferris Jabr (old blog, Twitter), the associate editor for neuroscience and psychology here at Scientific American.

Ferris got his MA from New York University in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting and a Bachelors of Science from Tufts University in psychology and English literature. At his new blog he will experiment with all sorts of things – starting first with a series of posts about different types of neurons.

Please go and say Hi to Ferris in the comments on his first post and bookmark/subscribe to his blog so you don’t miss his future posts.

Open Laboratory 2013 – submissions so far

Bora Zivkovic — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:14:03 +0000

The submission form for the 2013 edition of Open Lab is now open. Any blog post written since October 1, 2011 is eligible for submission. We will close the form on October 1st, 2012.

We accept essays, stories, poetry, cartoons/comics, and original art.

Once you are done submitting your own posts, you can start looking at the others’, including on aggregators like ScienceSeeker.org, Scienceblogging.org and Researchblogging.org.

You can buy the last five annual collections here. You can read Prefaces and Introductions to older editions here.

Help us spread the word by displaying these badges (designed by Doctor Zen):

http://openlab.wufoo.com/forms/submission-form/”>http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/network-central/files/2012/02/Open_Lab_2013.png>

Or take the Open Lab 2011 submission bookmarklet – Open Lab – and drag the link to your browser’s toolbar to have it always handy as you browse around science blogs.

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3 Quarks Daily (Julia Galef): My Little Pony: Reality is Magic!

The II-I- blog: We, the pioneers.
The II-I- blog: The Great Revolution

A Hippo on Campus: Why men don’t listen and women are great at maths

A Schooner of Science: Fever dreams – the true tale of Richard Spruce

Anthropology in Practice: Beware: The Ides Have Come. No, Really. This Time It’s True.

Artologica: From the Cells to the stars

Beatrice the Biologist: How the Brain Works (cartoon)

The Bug Chicks (Michael Barton): A taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!

Bug Girl’s Blog: How to get free media coverage for a bogus beehive design
Bug Girl’s Blog: Transcript of my ESA talk about Social Media

Cedar’s Digest: Purple Doesn’t Exist: Some thoughts on Male Privilege and Science Online

The Cellular Scale: The “Human Neuron”, not so special after all?

CENtral Science IYC 2011: Chemistry Carnival: Your Favorite Chemical Reactions!

Chemjobber: How do institutions change? Not easily

Cocktail Party Physics: The Science of Mysteries: Of Granular Material and Singing Sands

Contagions: Mapping Malaria in Anglo-Saxon England
Contagions: Did India and China Escape the Black Death?

Cosmic Variance (Sean Carroll): Everything is Connected

The Curious Wavefunction: The unstoppable Moore hits the immovable Eroom

Deep Thoughts and Silliness: The Problems of Interpreting Data

Denim and Tweed: Baby steps versus long jumps: The “size” of evolutionary change, and why it matters

DiverseScholar: #SCIO12 Policy Report: Academia is Productive but Messy – Effects on (Mis)Communication

Eruptions: Looking Back at the 1982 eruption of El Chichón in Mexico
Eruptions: The Mysterious Missing Eruption of 1258 A.D.

EvoEcoLab: The Message Reigns Over the Medium
EvoEcoLab: Trying to Catch His Breath With a Hole-Ridden Safety Net

The Febrile Muse: Inflammatory Language No 1. The ongoing cycle

From The Lab Bench: Google Search Engine Software goes ‘Chemistry’
From The Lab Bench: Old News for Carbon Dioxide, New Threats for Climate Change

Gaines, on Brains: Seeing into the future? The neuroscience of déjà vu

Galileo’s Pendulum: If You Love a Flower Found on a Star

GeoSphere: The Art of Geology

Green Tea and Velociraptors: What is a Fossil Species..?
Green tea and Velociraptors: Dinosaurs: Then and Now

The Happy Scientist: Teach It Right the First Time.

Iqsoft science blog: Dilemma

Katatrepsis: Why are there imperfect mimics?

Life Traces of the Georgia Coast: Georgia Life Traces as Art and Science

Listen to Us!: Moby the Manta Ray

Literally Psyched: Our Storytelling Minds: Do We Ever Really Know What’s Going on Inside?

Lithics: Fault Dynamics 101

Magma Cum Laude: This is what a geologist looks like

My Growing Passion: When Plants Parasitise Fungi: myco-heterotrophy

Neurophilosophy: Sleights of hand, sleights of mind

Observations (Ferris Jabr): Animals Exposed to Virtual Reality Hold an Emergency Meeting

The Organometallic Reader: Ligand Field Theory & Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory

Oscillatory Thoughts: Automated Science, Deep Data, and the Paradox of Information

Providentia: That X-ray Vision
Providentia: Why Are People So Skeptical About Psychology?

PsySociety: Why Jersey Shore Won’t Make You Dumber: The Importance Of Responsible Science Journalism
PsySociety: If I Were A Well-Off White Man… I Might Not Understand Other People Very Well.

Quantum Diaries: Error Control in Science

Reciprocal Space: What’s your favourite colour?

Reportergene: Where are your cells from?
Reportergene: Packaging madness

The Scicurious Brain: Cocaine and the sexual habits of quail, or, why does NIH fund what it does?
The Scicurious Brain: It hurts so good: the runner’s high

Science. How hard can it be?: A tale of generations
Science. How hard can it be?: When we become nature’s mice.

Science Is Everyone’s Story: The Health Cost of Black Women’s Hair Products
Science Is Everyone’s Story: Energy Journalism: Cleaning up the Numbers

Science Sushi: Evolution: The Rise of Complexity
Science Sushi: Time – and brain chemistry – heal all wounds
Science Sushi: The Joke Isn’t Funny – It’s Harmful

The Scorpion and the Frog: The “Love Hormone” Pageant and The “Love Hormone” of 2012 fused into one.

Skulls in the Stars: François Arago: the most interesting physicist in the world!

Social Dimension: New Ways to Measure Science
Social Dimension: The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes

Southern Fried Science: If fish evolved on land, where did they all go? Evolution and Biodiversity in the Ocean

Speakeasy Science: Cough Syrup, Dead Children, and the Case for Regulation

Squid A Day: Neurotoxins In Stranded Squid (With Bonus Rant About Academic Publishing)
Squid A Day: Why Aren’t Humboldt Squid Giant?

Starts with a Bang: So, you’ve learned that the Sun is going to explode…

The Starving Neuron: Fooled by the senses.
The Starving Neuron: 24 hours in the lab
The Starving Neuron: Bad behaviour

This View of Life: There is Grandeur (Really)

Token Skeptic: Eye-Witness To A Crime And Not Raisins – Reflections On The Bystander Effect In Helping Behaviour

The Virtuosi: A Very Small Slice of Pi

We Beasties: Allergies 101
We Beasties: Allergies 101 – Part deux
We Beasties: Allergies 101: Part the Third

Words in mOcean: I’m a marine biologist, but sometimes I wish that what I did sounded a bit less interesting…

Zoonotica: How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 1 and How do we know what causes an infectious disease? Part 2

#SciAmBlogs Friday – Stendra, Irrationality, Quantum Encryption, Sharks, Javan Rhinos, Crown-of-Thorns, Space Shuttle Enterprise, Shift Workers and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:57:28 +0000

- Samuel McNerney – The Irrationality of Irrationality: The Paradox of Popular Psychology

- Judy Stone – Molecules to Medicine: Public Health or Impaired Penises?

- Alan Woodward – Privacy through Uncertainty: Quantum Encryption

- Christie Wilcox – Mounting Evidence Suggests Sharks Are In Serious Trouble

- Kate Clancy – Why We Shouldn’t Prescribe Hormonal Contraception to 12 Year Olds

- DNLee – Attending the Experimental Biology meeting helped me clarify my STEM career path

- John R. Platt – 160 Video Cameras to Help Monitor Last 35 Javan Rhinos

- Max Martinez – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Crown-of-Thorns Outbreaks and Anthropogenic Pollution

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Khalil’s Picks (27 April 2012)

- John Matson and Michael Battaglia – Space Shuttle Enterprise Graces New York City with a Flyby

- Katherine Harmon – Shift Workers in Dangerous Industries Most Likely to Be Short on Sleep

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#SciAmBlogs Thursday – flying monkeys, amoebas, raptors, Turing, Mars, Saturn, Pygmies, Klout, and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:11:33 +0000

- Rob Dunn – Occam’s Razor, Flying Monkeys and Musings on Lager Beer

- Ian Watson – How Alan Turing Invented the Computer Age

- Psi Wavefunction – Pond water microforay: amoebae gone wild

- Laura Walsh – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: My Walden South of Los Angeles

- Matthew Sturm – SnowSTAR-2012: Convergence

- Scicurious – Experimental Biology Blogging: Every once in a while, a double cheeseburger might not be so bad for the heart.

- Caleb A. Scharf – Saturn Is Alive, No CGI

- Darren Naish – Raptor vs raptor

- Kelly Oakes – They came from Mars

- Cassie Rodenberg – Addiction Through Local Voices

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Maggie Pingolt

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Klout Is Important Even If You Aren’t Using It

- Bora Zivkovic – Thank you, Matthew and the rest of the SnowSTAR-2012 team.

- David Biello – More People on a Finite Planet: Royal Society Sees Limits to Growth

- Gary Stix – Why Pygmies Are Short: New Evidence Surprises

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Thank you, Matthew and the rest of the SnowSTAR-2012 team.

Bora Zivkovic — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:02:57 +0000

I hope you have enjoyed the last few weeks at the Expeditions blog, with Matthew Sturm and his colleagues having fun studying snow on the North Slope of Alaska, conveying to us the beaty of the scenery, the cool wildlife around their camp, the wonderful technology they used, and the excitement of doing important science in such an environment. Perhaps they’ll come back next year for another round. For now, see their posts:

Alaskan North Slope Snow LiDAR Campaign: SnowSTAR-2012
SnowSTAR-2012: Hoars and Drifters
SnowSTAR-2012: Questionable Monuments and Widespread Cratering
SnowSTAR-2012: Big “N” – The pursuit of snow data and high honor
SnowSTAR-2012: Convergence

#SciAmBlogs Wednesday – G-Spot or Not, conservation refugees, hallucinating fish, meteors, vervet crybabies, early Anthropocene, Mad Cow, and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:27:24 +0000

It’s Wednesday – time for the new Video of the Week! Have fun!

Today we also say good-bye to one of the original network bloggers, James Byrne, who explains in his farewell post what comes next in his life and career. Good luck, James, in all your future endeavors, and thank you for helping the network with a strong start.

- Ricki Lewis – A Tale of 2 G-Spots

- Judy Stone – Molecules to Medicine: Have You Thanked a Clinical Researcher Today?

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Chagos: When Conservation Makes Refugees

- Kali Staniec – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Why Experiential Learning is Vital to Academic Life

- Dana Hunter – Sumatra: A World-Record Earthquake, but Thankfully No Tsunami

- Cassie Rodenberg – Russell Brand’s Insight on Crime and Addiction

- Scicurious – Experimental Biology Blogging: Hallucinating Zebrafish

- Jason G. Goldman – When Faced With A New Problem, Vervet Monkeys Look To Mom

- David Bressan – Rocks from Outer Space!

- Melissa C. Lott – Windmill Shows the Power of Access to Knowledge

- John R. Platt – Critically Endangered Colombian Parrot Doubles Its Protected Habitat

- Kevin Zelnio – Sweden Journal: Good Bye Blue Skies of Carolina

- James Byrne – Goodbye SciAm Blogs

- Bora Zivkovic – Introducing: Francie Diep

- Bora Zivkovic – What three science questions do you think the Presidential candidates need to answer before November 6th?

- Kate Wong – Rise of Humans Two Million Years Ago Doomed Large Carnivores

- Mark Fischetti – Views from Space Show A Fragile Earth

- Philip Yam – The 4th U.S. Case of Mad Cow Disease: Should You Be Concerned?

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#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – Open Science, history of the zipper, being social, brain on cocaine, and more.

Bora Zivkovic — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:24:43 +0000

- Jalees Rehman – Open Science and Access to Medical Research

- Nancy Chen – How a Love of “Story Problems” Changed the World of Breast Cancer

- Khalil A. Cassimally – Introducing: Jack Scanlan

- Kelly Oakes – Cassini spots snowballs punching through one of Saturn’s rings

- Dawnielle Tellez – USC Dornsife Scientific Diving: Why USC Dornsife was the Right Decision For Me

- Leonard Mlodinow – The Importance of Being Social

- Kevin Zelnio – The Symbol of Ibiza and Formentera

- David Wogan – Is water on the public’s mind? Not really. Not yet.

- Scicurious – Experimental Biology Blogging: Cancer chemotherapy and cognitive deficits

- Jason G. Goldman – ScienceSeeker Editor’s Selections: Epilepsy, Corn Syrup, Science Writing, and Trichotillomania

- Katherine Harmon – Cocaine Habit Ages Brain Prematurely

- Michael Moyer – Planetary Resources’ Crazy Plan to Mine an Asteroid May Not Be So Crazy

- Philip Yam – Google Pays Homage to Zipper Engineer Gideon Sundback

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