Why being wrong makes us angry. Christie Aschwanden is a science journalist. Last month, she joined a lot of other science journalists at the National Association of Science Writers conference and gave a short Ignite presentation about why people get angry when presented with evidence that their beliefs are wrong. She's posted a storyboard of the presentation to The Last Word on Nothing blog.
It's definitely worth a read. I’m married to an amazing guy. Dave is like those honeybees that always know the way back to the hive. Ouch. What's interesting to me about this, though, is that I don't react this way when I prove my own beliefs wrong. I came away from this thinking two things. Frost Flowers Come to Life. By Jody Deming Figure 1. Frost flowers growing on thin new sea ice in the Amundsen Gulf, as observed from the CCG research icebreaker Amundsen in December, 2007, during the International Polar Year (IPY) Circumpolar Flaw Lead (CFL) system study.
Credit: Eric Collins. Biofilms are the hallmark of microbial life in all manner of natural and engineered settings. The defining features of a mature biofilm include high densities of microbes, association with a surface, and extracellular polysaccharide substances (EPS)—often very specific compounds—that give architectural structure to these habitats. For literally centuries, polar explorers have been aware that in the springtime the bottom of seasonal sea ice becomes visible discolored.
Figure 2. Sounds rough. Figure 3. But wait. Prof. Collins RE, Rocap G, & Deming JW (2010). Science Blogs. Community Blog - Equalis - Your Mathematics Community. The Bubble Chamber | Where history and philosophy of science meet society and public policy. Whewell's Ghost. New HPS Blogs!! « From the Hands of Quacks: The Official Weblog of Jaipreet Virdi. Historians and philosophers of science got two new treats in the blogosphere this week, with the launching of two different collaborative blogs: Whewell’s Ghost is a blog dedicated to the History and Philosophy of Science and was launched by Rebekah Higgit, John M.
Lynch and John Wilkins. The blog is also available to any scholar, teacher, or researcher interested in HPS or related disciplines to cross-post relevant information from other blogs. The Bubble Chamber is founded by the University of Toronto’s Science Policy Working Group, and is managed by IHPST graduate students seeking to connect their work more directly to the public sphere: The idea is that we, as historians and philosophers of science, can create new applications for our specialized knowledge by bringing it to bear on social, political, and policy issues of general interest in ways that engage with a variety of people, from the general public to business people to working scientists.
Like this: Like Loading... Bad Science. I'm a Scientist blog · Read about our session at Science Online conference. Awards - Research Blogging. Seed Media Group's Research Blogging Awards honor the outstanding bloggers who discuss peer-reviewed research. With over 1,000 blogs registered at ResearchBlogging.org and 10,000 posts about peer-reviewed journal articles collected, it is time to recognize the best of the best. By February 11, 2010, readers had made over 400 nominations. Then our expert panel of judges painstakingly assessed the nominees to select 5 to 10 finalists in each of 20 categories. Then our registered bloggers chose the winners. Congratulations to the winners and finalists, who represent the best blogging about peer-reviewed research on the Internet!
Finalists for each award are listed in random order. Are you a winner? Are you a finalist? Want a Research Blogging Awards 2010 logo for your blog? Why science blogs give me hope. Lately I've been watching the Democratic party implode because they've stopped talking about their plans and vision for the future, and they won't stop talking about whatever ridiculousness the other side dreams up. Sadly, it's an all-too-common problem I see from companies facing PR crises - "Hi, I'm [name], and before I tell you anything meaningful about myself, I'd like to outline all of the criticism that's been leveled against me in great detail and then provide my lawyer-approved response. " For a while now I've thought the online community of science writers was caught in a similar trap. I heard (and sometimes still hear) bloggers complain about how the mainstream media gets the facts wrong so often. How critics stack the deck against science with false attacks cleverly planted on television.
And so on. This has concerned me because science is so critical to solving the world's most pressing problems, and science writers are the societal interface for the rest of us. Knight Science Journalism Tracker.
Lone science bloggers. Blog carnivals.