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Citing blogs on scientific papers
I was recently asked if one of my post could be cited as a personal communication (pers. comm.) on an upcoming scientific paper, that is, instead of citing the blog post directly. The authors of the paper foresee (quite rightly I believe) that the journal will not accept the reference to this electronic media, hence the need for the well accepted and common alternative. › Continue reading
RSS feeds for Zootaxa
In trying to stay afloat up-to-date on the scientific papers in my areas of interest I find that Table of Contents (TOCs) e-mail alerts and RSS feeds offered by the journal publishers are all I need (well, that and a lot of time to read through all those papers, take some notes and sort them out into my nifty digital filing system).
On being an editor for Nature
Nature editor Henry Gee has an honest post about how is it like to hold such an important job (important for us at the other side of things):
Every now and then I get asked to a lab or seminar to give a talk about what I do as an editor at Nature, apart from lie on my back being fed grapes by flying babies.
I see before me a wall of faces, agog and drooling amazed to discover that Nature editors are almost really human.
Macromite’s Blog: scanning electron micrograph perfection
A spruced-up version of a dirty box mite. 2009 © DEWalter.
A new blog just sprung into life. Macromite’s Blog:
Evolution today and tomorrow – Lisbon’s conference
I spend last Thursday and Friday attending a conference held at the University of Lisbon: Evolution today and tomorrow: Darwin evaluated by contemporary evolutionary and philosophical theories. 23 – 24 April 2009. Don’t let the event’s webpage design fool you, the conference was well organized and brought together a diverse array of interesting speakers, both Portuguese and from abroad. › Continue reading
Cladistics wars 2.0
There is a skirmish going on at Dechronization blog right now1. This is a coauthored blog about phylogenetics. I like used to like this blog (its was right there on my blogroll —->2). There are surprisingly very few blogs about phylogenetic methods these days, despite the wide use that phylogenies currently have in evolutionary biology and beyond (e.g., linguistics). I will complain that, for nine authors, they post little, sometimes not a single post during a month.
- 1. Update 12:00pm GMT, April 22nd, 2009. Original post on Dechronization deleted.
1.2. Update, May 2nd, 2009. It seems that the original poster did not agree with the removal of his posts and reposted the Dechronization announcement of the Cladistics Workshop here. ↩
- Update April 23nd, 2009. I took the link out of my blogroll to show a dear friend that I care more about him than a silly blog. ↩
Photo Synthesis: new site for your feeds and blogrolls
ScienceBlogs started a new blog with an interesting dynamic, the title of which is either a very clever use of terms or a super-geeky pun, depending on your level of causticity: Photo Synthesis.
New open access journal in Evolutionary Biology
I received some word about an upcoming open access journal called Trends in Evolutionary Biology.
I have to confess that by the journal’s name and cover design I initially thought, with excitement, that it was a new open access experiment by Cell Press, publisher of the high-end and successful family of “Trends” journals. I was particularly intrigued since Cell Press already publishes Trends in Ecology and Evolution or TREE as it is called inside the cool geek1 circle of evolutionary biologists.
It turns out to be a journal published by PAGEPress, located in Pavian, Italy. PAGEPress seem to be starting a whole series of titles in medicine and biology.
The journal description is a little odd though:
Trends in Evolutionary Biology is a new Open Access journal concerned with the origin of species from a common descent and descent of species, as well as their modifcation[sic], multiplication and diversity over time.
- Please excuse the contradiction. ↩
Ants vs Termites
In this fantastically rendered futuristic landscape, from the mind of Ricky Parker, mechanical ants fight mechanical termites over the dominion of the forest.
Gravatar
If you are reading this chances are you find it worthwhile to surf and participate on the ever expanding information cloud known as the blogosphere. And I thought I’ll share a little nifty web-service called Gravatar that is fun to have for such purpose.
