Reflections on Obama and Science
Dennis Overbye writes in the New York Times essay Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy To be honest, the restoration of science was the least of it, but when Barack Obama proclaimed during his...
View ArticleWikipedia and Ecology
Journal Watch Online reports on a recent TREE paper Callis et al Improving Wikipedia: educational opportunity and professional responsibility (DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2009.01.003 ) in Open Source Ecology A...
View ArticleEcology and Wikipedia pt 2
To follow up on my post Wikipedia and ecology, the ESA blog EcoTone has posted an interview with the authors of the recent TREE paper on wikipedia (DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2009.01.003): Why don’t you think...
View ArticleCaribbean reef fish decline in wake of coral collapse
A recent paper by Paddack et al in Current Biology (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.041) that shows that observed declines in fish populations in the Caribbean are consistent across all subregions of the...
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Clickstreams to map scientific knowledge production
Johan Bollen and collegues (2009) use “clickstreams” to map science interaction in their latest PLoS article. And they find in Figure 5 that “Ecology” sits in-between as a broker between social science...
View ArticleEconomics as a complex systems science
An interesting interview of Paul Krugman by Edward Hugh is on A Fistful of Euros: E.H. : The late Sir Karl Popper used to contrast what he regarded as science with ideologies like Marxism and...
View ArticleNaomi Oreskes on Merchants of Doubt
Historian of science Naomi Oreskes recently gave a talk at Brown University, based on her new book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to...
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Mapping Science
A nice 2008 PNAS paper Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure (PNAS 105, 1118) [pdf] by Martin Rosvall and Carl T Bergstrom creates beautiful and informative...
View ArticleAn Algorithm for Discovery
A decade ago in Science, Paydarfar and Schwartz, neurologists from University of Massachusetts, wrote about an An Algorithm for Discovery (DOI:10.1126/science.292.5514.13). They suggest that there is...
View ArticleBP wins ’2010 Accidental Earth Experiment’ Prize
Bill Chameides Dean of the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke awards BP his 2010 Accidental Earth Experiment’ Prize!!! on his blog the Green Grok. His award recognizes that BP’s incompetence...
View ArticleEric Idle on “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” : The New Yorker
In the New Yorker, former Python, Eric Idle writes “Who Wrote Shakespeare?”. He explains: While it is perfectly obvious to everyone that Ben Jonson wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays, it is less known...
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Seeds of a Good Anthropocene
My colleagues and I are running an international scientific synthesis experiment that aims to collect example of projects, productions, or initiatives that people believe are examples of “seeds of a...
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