Off topic - or not?
20-01-2008 10:10
My newspaper had this weekend an
article
on blogging by scientists. (Sorry, it is in Dutch
only, but read on for the international links....).
It seems that quite some scientists are writing about
their discipline and their work, though not sharing
research ideas. They might be copied and published
sooner than one could actually do it yourself. I
might be bloody naive, but I can't see the point of
hiding a worthwhile idea if it could become even a
better idea by sharing with a colleague. The same
applies to keeping someone from the conclusions in a
paper in press instead of sharing them right away.
Must be bloody big egos....
Anyway, it seems that there are more biologists blogging than any other scientists together :-)
Exploring some of the links from the article I noticed that there was even a conference on scientific blogging this weekend in the USA, with more than 200 people attending. For some, it seems even to be a new job. Science communication in the age of Web 2.0...
Accidentally, I found a remarkable mollusk item, with amazing mimicry in cephalopods. Just click on the image to view the video.
Always wondered about mimicry in land snails... They can't be that fast like cephalopods ;-)
Some selected links (not at all on malacology):
www.johnhawks.net/weblog/
scienceblogs.com/sciencewoman/
blog.wired.com/wiredscience/
scienceblogs.com/clock/
scienceblogs.com/sciencesociety/
Anyway, it seems that there are more biologists blogging than any other scientists together :-)
Exploring some of the links from the article I noticed that there was even a conference on scientific blogging this weekend in the USA, with more than 200 people attending. For some, it seems even to be a new job. Science communication in the age of Web 2.0...
Accidentally, I found a remarkable mollusk item, with amazing mimicry in cephalopods. Just click on the image to view the video.
Always wondered about mimicry in land snails... They can't be that fast like cephalopods ;-)
Some selected links (not at all on malacology):
www.johnhawks.net/weblog/
scienceblogs.com/sciencewoman/
blog.wired.com/wiredscience/
scienceblogs.com/clock/
scienceblogs.com/sciencesociety/