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August 7, 2008
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
American Avocets 3 Another astonishing image for you to enjoy, courtesy of a talented photographer!
Greg Laden's Blog
Bad speling 'should be accepted' Common spelling mistakes should be accepted into everyday use, not corrected, a lecturer has said. Ken Smith of Bucks New University says the most common mistakes should be accepted as "variant spellings". He lists the 10 most commonly misspelt words, which include "arguement" for "argument"...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Carnivalia more coolio blog carnivals for you to read and enjoy!
Dynamics of Cats
"use-inspired research" reasons for tenure #24952 ORNL fires Distinguished Scientist, UT picks up slack...
Sciencewomen
Incentives for future science teachers? Dear ScienceWoman, I am starting a career as a teacher and would very much like to enroll in a masters specializing in teaching high school science. I am wondering if you could help direct me to some grants or...
The Daily Transcript
A way to break out of the pyramid scheme Boom-bust cycles of NIH funding have caused many hardships especially within the lowest ranks of biomedical academia.
A Blog Around The Clock
Aggregated posts from the best (medical) educational blogs Vedran is on the roll! Here is the aggregator for medical education blogs....
August 6, 2008
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
West 66th/Lincoln Center Subway Art 29 Another lovely glass mosaic mural artwork from NYC's subway system for you to enjoy, courtesy of me!
The Quantum Pontiff
Revolutionary Breakthough in Quantum Computing Hot off the presses!In an amazing breakthrough, which this press release has no room to describe in any real detail, scientists at research university BigU have made tremendous progress in the field of quantum computing. The results mean that quantum...
DrugMonkey
Are Stable Research Career Tracks the Solution to "Structural Disequilibria" in the NIH Racket? A Policy Forum piece by Michael S. Teitelbaum in Science opines at length on the so-called "structural disequilibria" in biomedical research [h/t: writedit]. This is mostly a recitation of all of the familiar NIH funding woes (including reference to the...
erv
Women, Part 1 As I said in my chat with PZ on Blogging Heads, Im probably not the best person to talk to about the problems women face in science. Why? Meh, my parents have always encouraged me in the sciences (CONSTRUX WHOO!)....
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
American Avocets 2 Another lovely image of a delicate and colorful shorebird, thanks to a talented photographer!
Thus Spake Zuska
New Grant Program For White Forgetfulness The National Association of Scholars, in its tireless quest to have the little-noted perspective of the white man represented in our nation's colleges and universities, has succeeded in getting a pet project funded via the Higher Education Act reauthorization. As...
Uncertain Principles
I Love My Job I'm very happy to be an academic scientist. And I'm not alone: a study presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association finds that academic scientists -- in the natural and social sciences -- are more...
Pharyngula
Motivating students (and motivating women) to pursue science careers Peter Wood has an interesting commentary in the Chronicle today. At least, it starts out well, but by the end it turns into a bit of a train wreck. The good part is a discussion of a growing deficiency in...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Carnivalia More blog carnivals for you to enjoy!
Dynamics of Cats
will they come? enrollments are high, term starts soon, but will the students show up?
Uncertain Principles
Self-Esteem Is Not the Problem With Science Education The problem is, people who are actually good with math and science can make five times the money with one fifth the hassle by doing something other than teaching science to kids.
Sciencewomen
Planning for a healthier Year 2 I'm taking the autumn to learn to write mindfully with Robert Boice. Want to join in?
August 5, 2008
Thus Spake Zuska
Sexual Metaphors at Hacker Camp "Penetrate" is a word that appears with some frequency.
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
West 66th/Lincoln Center Subway Art 28 [Detail] Another lovely glass mosaic mural artwork from NYC's subway system for you to enjoy, courtesy of me!
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
More Than Two Million Strong! Sometime today, this blog received its two millionth visitor!
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
American Avocets 1 This species is one of the many birds that are so stunningly beautiful that they defy description
The World's Fair
Of course, the history of science matters. It just doesn't seem to count is the thing. Yesterday, Ben threw out the following question: What does a scientist actually think the history of science offers? To be frank, I don't think it's necessarily a tough question to answer, but I do think that my answer, and...
Discovering Biology in a Digital World
I pick myself up, dust myself off, and I Could social networking help biotechnologists cope with the ups and downs of the industry?
“One has to wonder how many good scientists leave science all together due to unsuccessful efforts to be funded by the NIH. S. Rivlin on "Geez, could NIH Program staff be any less helpful?"
