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I posted 8 times in November. That is, on A Blog Around The Clock only (not counting the posts on The Network Central, The SA Incubator, Video of the Week, Image of the Week, or editing Guest Blog and Expeditions). New stuff: Nate Silver and the Ascendance of Expertise The other kinds of expertise #sci4hels [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Every year I ask some of the attendees of the ScienceOnline conferences to tell me (and my readers) more about themselves, their careers, current projects and their views on the use of the Web in science, science education or science communication. So now we continue with the participants of ScienceOnline2012. See all the interviews in [...] - Bora Zivkovic

If you are a really regular, diligent reader of this blog, you may remember back in September when I announced a panel I have organized for the next year’s WCSJ2013. The eighth World Conference of Science Journalists, organized by World Federation of Science Journalists will be held in Helsinki, Finland on June 24-28th, 2013, and [...] - Bora Zivkovic

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If you read my old and new posts about the media, science journalism, etc., you know I come down strongly on the side of specialists and against generalists. But it is a caricature, a simplification I have to use to make my posts clearer, and to cut my posts down to a semi-manageable length Yes, [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Nate Silver is now a meme (also source of the image on the left). I usually pepper my posts with links, but today I feel lazy, so I listed a bunch of links at the bottom – hours of fascinating reading you can have after you read my post! Who is Nate Silver? Nate Silver [...] - Bora Zivkovic

WUNC is the local NPR station. The State Of Things is one of the popular North Carolina programs, usually featuring local people doing interesting stuff. This week is the Science Week there. I will be on today. The show starts at 12 noon EST, but my segment is at the end, so around 12:40pm or [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Last week, in the wake of superstorm Sandy, I saw a number of people asking questions on social media (and some traditional media picking up on it) about a potential for ratpocalypse, i.e,. the possibility that hordes of rats will come out of the sewers and subway tunnels and flood the streets of New York [...] - Bora Zivkovic

I posted 9 times in October, and it seems I am really back in the groove, with a nice rhythm of weekly decent blogging. That is, on A Blog Around The Clock only (not counting the posts on The Network Central, The SA Incubator, Video of the Week, Image of the Week, or editing Guest [...] - Bora Zivkovic

How many of the NYC rats survived hurricane Sandy? This question has been asked in the wake of Sandy’s flooding of lower and east Manhattan. See, for example, articles in Huffington Post Green, Forbes, National Geographic, Business Insider, Mother Nature Network and NYMag. The short answer is: some rats drowned, some survived. The complicated question, [...] - Bora Zivkovic

It seems we like dichotomies when discussing changes in the media. We pick two words, and then fight over them. I have no intention to revisit the stale old debate about journalists vs. bloggers, as it was silly to begin with, and was resolved back in 2005, oh wait, in 2008, or was it in [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Back on October 10th, I skyped in a keynote address to the inaugural event of the ScienceRewired group in Adelaide, Australia. Here is a fast liveblog of my talk, and here is the video of the talk in full: Kylie Sturgess has blogged and storified the entire event here. ========= On October 13th, I participated [...] - Bora Zivkovic

If you are not a vertebrate paleontologist, or play one on TV, what do you think vertebrate paleontologists do? If you were a kid who knew all dinosaur names, but now only remember that period occasionally when paleontology appears in the media, what would you expect you’d hear if you suddenly appeared at the annual [...] - Bora Zivkovic

I am at the 72nd annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Raleigh, NC, this week. My colleague Kate Wong will be covering the most interesting presentations from the meeting on the Observations blog, while I will do more impressionistic stuff here later in the week. The Twitter hashtag is #2012SVP if you [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Every year I ask some of the attendees of the ScienceOnline conferences to tell me (and my readers) more about themselves, their careers, current projects and their views on the use of the Web in science, science education or science communication. So now we continue with the participants of ScienceOnline2012. See all the interviews in [...] - Bora Zivkovic

“Don’t touch those webs!” A couple of decades ago, my wife and I worked on a horse farm where everyone was explicitly instructed not to ever clean the cobwebs inside the barn. Sure, the owners themselves would occasionally, very carefully, almost surgically, remove a few targeted old cobwebs here and there, but the majority of [...] - Bora Zivkovic

One of the most effective methods for the control of spread of malaria is the use of bed nets infused with insecticides. Most species of mosquitoes (the Anopheles genus) that carry the malarial parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) are considered to be strictly nocturnal – they are active only during the night. Thus, sleeping under the net [...] - Bora Zivkovic

I posted 6 times in September. That is, on A Blog Around The Clock only (not counting the posts on The Network Central, The SA Incubator, Video of the Week, Image of the Week, or editing Guest Blog and Expeditions). New stuff: Tigers take to the night – for peaceful coexistence with humans #sci4hels – [...] - Bora Zivkovic

This week, I am on vacation. #NYCSciTweetUp #13 will be on October 9th at Peculier Pub in NYC. On October 10th, I will Skype in a Keynote at the inaugural ScienceRewired meeting in Adelaide, Australia. On October 15-20, I’ll be at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting in Raleigh NC. Kate Wong and I [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Finland, Finland, Finland! Every now and then, a meeting happens somewhere in the world, and I am not there but watching the tweets with the official hashtag makes me thoroughly jealous I am not. It just seems like there is interesting stuff going on, important information exchanged, and everyone is having great fun. I know, [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Hello, lots of news today. ScienceOnline ScienceOnline now has a new homepage and URL at http://scienceonline.com – check it out. Registration for ScienceOnline2013 opens on Monday morning at 9am EDT (followed by two more windows of opportunity later in the week). Get more information here. The Program is now public – see it here. OpenLab [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Every year I ask some of the attendees of the ScienceOnline conferences to tell me (and my readers) more about themselves, their careers, current projects and their views on the use of the Web in science, science education or science communication. So now we continue with the participants of ScienceOnline2012. See all the interviews in [...] - Bora Zivkovic

In an ideal ecosystem, each species has its own niche – a different “job description”: what it does, what it eats, where it sleeps, and more. But world is often not an ideal place. In many instances, two species may live in the same spot, yet overlap in some of their roles or needs. They [...] - Bora Zivkovic

I posted 13 times in August. That is, on A Blog Around The Clock only (not counting the posts on The Network Central, The SA Incubator, Video of the Week, Image of the Week, or editing Guest Blog and Expeditions). Updates, News and Announcements: Blogging and social media on Rhode Island Upcoming events It is [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Every year I ask some of the attendees of the ScienceOnline conferences to tell me (and my readers) more about themselves, their careers, current projects and their views on the use of the Web in science, science education or science communication. So now we continue with the participants of ScienceOnline2012. See all the interviews in [...] - Bora Zivkovic

The week was too busy to finish this on Friday. Then on Saturday the news broke that Neil Armstrong died – something I wanted to highlight as a special topic – so I decided to wait another day and give people a chance to wrote posts and articles about Neil. So, with a delay, the [...] - Bora Zivkovic

After some years on Usenet newsgroups, commenting on other people’s blogs, writing diaries on campaign blogs and places like DailyKos, I finally started my own first blog on this date in 2004. Compared to a bunch of my friends, eight years of blogging makes me a relative new-comer. But I understand how eight years might [...] - Bora Zivkovic

What’s in the box? Let’s open it, shall we? It is here! The Open Lab 2012! Official publication date is September 18th. There will be a lot of interesting promotional events, online and offline, before, on and after that day.You can pre-order right now! Related links: The Best Science Writing Online 2012 The Best Science [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Blog of the Week: Do you believe in dog? is a brand new blog. It is written by two dog researchers, one in New York City, the other in Yarra Valley just outside of Melbourne, Australia. Julie Hecht you may already know from her wonderful blog Dog Spies, her writing in The Bark, or her [...] - Bora Zivkovic

Every year I ask some of the attendees of the ScienceOnline conferences to tell me (and my readers) more about themselves, their careers, current projects and their views on the use of the Web in science, science education or science communication. So now we continue with the participants of ScienceOnline2012. See all the interviews in [...] - Bora Zivkovic