Growing teeth
Zachary Cofran has been dissertation blogging about his work on dental development in robust australopithecines: "Data, development and diets". An interesting look at how the skimpy pattern of data in...
View ArticleDigital anthropology panel
Daniel Lende reports on the AAA panel on Digital Anthropology: Projects and Platforms. Golub also advocated for anthropology to embrace a home grown approach to our online projects. Rather than...
View ArticleXMRV 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 Collapsing Scientific Hypothesis Ended in an...
View ArticleBlogs 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 so far this year ("Vast distance education...
View ArticleSession 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 classroom". I'll write up my own notes when I have...
View ArticleRe-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 reporting the startup of a new public policy...
View ArticleZeigarnik, 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 on Zeigarnik". In this view, talking...
View Article"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 statements: "Science and Truth - We're All...
View ArticleMaking 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 criticism of clinics and physicians who provide...
View ArticleQuote: Dave Winer on the power of blogging
Software designer and blogging pioneer Dave Winer: Then something great happened. Gates read my email, and responded with a total Bill Gates rant, and of course I sent it back to my readers. I would...
View ArticleCeramics 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, has described the work in a blog post: "First...
View ArticleBlog 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 questions: "Five minutes with Patrick Dunleavy and...
View ArticleAnthropology'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 here, and love how he has connected the new...
View ArticleBlogging 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 for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Blogging...
View ArticleSpeak 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 Media Likes and Dislikes") [1]. North gives a...
View ArticleBackreaction on science blogging advice
Sabine Hossenfelder gives some useful advice about "Should you write a science blog?". Advice #8: Don’t be afraid of your readers.If everybody would like what you write, somebody would hate it just...
View ArticleThe 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: "The travels of a head".In seeking out...
View ArticleRising 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 incredible video shorts from the site, and some...
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