An Academic Says Goodbye To All That
On seeing when it’s time to say goodbye to something you love, because there’s so much you hate about it. Very fine piece by @scicurious. I could ha...
Tag: Science
Chickens, William Blake, and Why The Limits of Science Don’t Matter
I’ve been slowly reading Roy Bedichek’s splendid and horrifically overlooked Adventures With A Texas Naturalist — a 50-year-old book fresh as any ...
How The Deniers Win: Question Motives
Updated 06/17/2013 11:16am EDT (see tail end of story) James Gilbert has the goods over at The Conversation: Climate sceptics have won, Martin Wolf lamented in ...
Glowing Maps of Scientific Collaboration
This lovely map of scientific collaboration is done by research analyst Olivier Beauchesne at Science-Metrixm who examined scientific collaboration around the w...
Unveiling Middle East Science – A Reading List
June 26: See key additions at bottom. For those heading to or curious about the World Conference of Science Journalists starting on Monday in Doha, here’s...
Science Publishes “Arsenic is Life” Critiques. Game On.
Alert readers will remember the scuffle that broke out last summer December over the “arsenic-is-life” paper by Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues th...
The Wrong Stuff: NASA Dismisses Arsenic Critique Because Critical Priest Not Standing on Altar
A NASA spokesperson has dismissed a major critique of the Science arsenic bug paper based not on the criticism’s merits, but on its venue — it appeared in...
Is That Arsenic-Loving Bug — Formerly an Alien — a Dog?
You know that arsenic-loving bacteria briefly mistaken for an alien? The bug, which roiled the science press earlier this week when it rode an unusually high an...
Why Publishing the Paper is Only Half the Scientist’s Job
The scientific paper is a wonderful thing. So how is it holding science back? I’ve got a guest post over at the Guardian science blog network pondering j...
Guardian announces new blog network and scidom over the blogosphere
The Guardian launched a new blog network yesterday, with a strong lineup: GrrlScientist covering matters evo and orni (bird lovers, take note), Evan Harris cove...