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• Students plagiarize, professor publicizes.
• Permanent budget crisis.
• Women, scientists, and ordinary human beings.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: dog days.
• Access rare books without being made to wear white cotton gloves.
• What I've learned so far at the PSA.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: practical thermodynamics.
• Dispatch from an airport terminal.
• Ask a philosopher why you should vote
• Electoral math.
• Happy Hallo-Meme.
• Spooky (but not anatomically correct) cookies.
• DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: last day.
• The mystery of the beans.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: ghosts.
• Physics professor gives common sense the day off.
• The challenges of dialogue about animal research.
• Blogger Challenge 2008 thank-you poem: ethics.
• Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: chemistry.
• Random question for the hive mind.
• Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: astronomy.
• Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: memory.
• Blogger Challenge 2008: funds from Seed and a chance to vote on which propsal should get the money.
• Conditions for ethical therapeutic use of a placebo.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: what big kids know.
• After school experiment: avocado mayonnaise.
• Happy Mole Day! (What's a mole?)
• Why would anybody want to blog under a pseudonym?
• The world is flat. Your adult edibles are adulterated.
• Blogger Challenge update (day 21): running the numbers.
• Blogger challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art: cats.
• My Oxbridge interview.
• Neighbor kids, ergot, and zombies.
• DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: progress toward big incentives.
• Garden update: day 89.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: Elements with Style.
• Scientific literacy: a comment on Revere's rant.
• The myth that will not die.
• URGENT: Help fund a biology proposal that expires at the end of the day!
• From the other end of the pipeline: views of science from Yale's MB&B entering class of 1991.
• DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: fabulous prizes from Seed.
• DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: some BIG incentives.
• DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: more incentives for your donations.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: another science fair contender.
• Prizes for women. Progress for women?
• A drug company, a psychiatrist, and an inexplicable failure to disclose conflicts of interest.
• DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: help fund these projects before time runs out!
• Injustice, misbehavior, and the scientist's social identity (part 3).
• DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: update (day 6).
• Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art: dragonflies.
• Schwarzenegger signs Researcher Protection Act of 2008.
• Injustice, misbehavior, and the scientist's social identity (part 2).
• DVD review: Veterinarians - Speaking for Research.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: of skin and senators.
• DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: more ScienceBloggers roll out challenges.
• Injustice, misbehavior, and the scientist's social identity (part 1).
• Fabulous prizes for your donation to my DonorsChoose challenge.
• Tracking the lag between promise and payoff.
• Blogger Challenge 2007 thank-you poem: narcolepsy.
• Two more ScienceBloggers mount DonorsChoose challenges!
• Book review: Autism's False Prophets.
• DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2008: fund classroom proposals, help kids.
• ScienceBlogs Book Club meets October 1-10.
• Periodic table of wow!
• Comments on the San Francisco millionth comment party.
• Freelance chemistry for fun and (illegal) profit.
• Against over-specialization.
• After school experiment: make your own indicator.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: more science fair brainstorming.
• Argumentation: FAIL.
• San Francisco millionth comment party this Friday night!
• Gimme the money -- hold the oversight.
• Random question about your typing habits.
• How scientists see research ethics: 'normal misbehavior' (part 2).
• How scientists see research ethics: 'normal misbehavior' (part 1).
• Recipe: lemon-chard soup.
• Garden update: day 64.
• Mediterranean jellies.
• Citizen scientists help track bee populations.
• Retired congresscritter offers communication tips to scientists.
• Important advice for academic job-seekers at all levels.
• Sprog art: dreaming of a rat.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: science fair brainstorming.
• The Hellinga retractions (part 2): trust, accountability, collaborations, and training relationships.
• The science fair conundrum.
• The Monty Hall problem and the nature of scientific discourse.
• What's up with the market?
• The kind of thing that makes industry 'science' look bad.
• Science Debate 2008: It's not the candidates' answers that leave me cold
• Seeking advice from stargazers.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: spider silk.
• Garden update: day 52.
• Standards for industry-funded research.
• The Vegetarian's Hundred.
• Come celebrate copious commenting!
• Cell phones, DNA damage, and questionable data.
• Animal poop identification.
• Clinical trials -- or not -- of chelation therapy.
• Earthquake weather?
• Data paparazzi.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: I owe my soul to the classsroom store.
• Random bullets of new school year.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: double trouble.
• Friday Sprog Blogging (bonus reader participation issue): circus detectives.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: overheard on a (buggy) nature walk.
• Dispatch from Wisconsin.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: preparing for Kids Day at SLAC.
• Objectivity and other people.
• Peer review and science.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: just add water.
• Garden update: day 18.
• ScienceBlogs survey, and an invitation to introduce yourself.
• When the tactics become the message.
• NYC bloggers/readers meet-up: venue changed!
• Friday Sprog Blogging: random bullets of sprog.
• Medical research with 'legacy samples' raises ethical questions.
• Details for NYC bloggers/readers meet-up.
• This food doesn't taste right ... or is it me?
• Girls, boys, and math.
• Garden update: day 8.
• Assorted hypotheses on the science-humanities divide.
• Update on NYC bloggers/readers meet-up.
• Fear and loathing in the academy.
• Appropriate use of sources.
• Colleagues behaving badly: symmetry considerations.
• Classroom teachers: get a jump on the school year (and your DonorsChoose proposal)!
• Friday Sprog Blogging: thinking in three dimensions.
• Shameful songs in my music library.
• The pros and cons of screening mammography: reading my 'patient instructions'.
• Blogging my mammogram.
• Want to hang out in Manhattan on August 9?
• New experimental digs
• Saturday Sprog Blogging: fish behavior.
• Minor epiphany about framing.
• This week, Friday Sprog Blogging ...
• What kind of impact do we really have?
• All that's left standing between me and my sabbatical.
• They will know we're people of reason by our ...
• Movie Review: Sizzle.
• Inescapable trade-offs?
• Friday Sprog Blogging: dramatic developments in gene splicing.
• Book review: Ethics for the Real World.
• Aetogate aftermath: paleontologists discuss the norms of their discipline.
• Quantum mechanics for fourth graders.
• Seeing is believing.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: the element of surprise.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: competing expertise.
• The system as it currently exists.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: silkworms.
• Book review: And the Band Played On.
• Considering an ethicist's 'questionable behavior'.
• Science, motherhood, and the Nobel Prize: have things gotten harder?
• Blogging and academic research.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: extinction.
• SVP Ethics Education Committee "best practices" for research, publication, and museum work.
• Work-life balance: not seeing integration as intrusion.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: where's the top?
• The Hellinga Retractions (part 1): when replication fails, what should happen next?
• SVP Ethics Education Commitee statement: lessons learned from 'Aetogate'.
• Why philosophy of chemistry?
• SVP Ethics Education Commitee conclusions on 'Aetogate'.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: what we found by the bay.
• A few thoughts on female academics and children.
• The facts aren't always pretty: doctored images in scientific journals.
• Who are you calling funny looking?
• The letter.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: extra-terrestrial life.
• Sympathy for exam-takers (at least, in some cases).
• Strategies for grading fairly.
• Death is not an option: giving in to temptation.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: pond water.
• How hot was it?
• Connections.
• Ethical considerations in encouraging conservation.
• Why it's so hard to get that course you need.
• Death is not an option: end of semester edition.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: can we dissolve an avocado?
• Busy.
• Cult Book Meme.
• Passion quilt: a meme for teachers.
• Pop quiz.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: experimental results (milk + lemon juice).
• 'Stop snitching' as part of the engineering student ethos.
• Relationships in lab groups.
• The love/hate relationship with academia.
• Simon Blackburn on 'the myth of the scientist'.
• Do jokes reveal something about who you're talking to?
• Evidence that the kids might be getting too much public radio.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: weekend experimentation.
• A question for those who teach.
• Sustainability starts with sustainable habits.
• Considering the science world's 'massive communication problem'.
• Getting students to ask good questions.
• Words of advice for new tenure track faculty.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: book review of 'Tentacles! Tales of the Giant Squid'.
• A dialogue on pseudonymity, personae, and interpersonal relations in the blogosphere.
• A tax-related question.
• It's news that a teenager is skeptical?
• Honesty, diplomacy, independence, and solidarity in public discussions about science.
• Some thoughts on 'Aetogate'
• Friday Sprog Cephalopod
• Friday Sprog Blogging: veterinary medicine.
• Trying to understand framing (III): the example of stem cell research.
• A few observations on the difference between ethics and the law.
• What kind of deception of human subjects is acceptable?
• Silly hypothesis, meet snarky retort.
• Help Kay Weber continue to pursue her case against Fermilab.
• Facts and their interpretation.
• Song chart meme: for two-two-two geeks in one.
• Trying to understand framing (II): draw me a picture.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: do hatching grunion eggs really go 'pop'?
• Trying to understand framing.
• Enough is enough. I quit.
• A message about science worth communicating to the public.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: psychoanimalists.
• Scientists call for public action in support of research with animals.
• Science and belief.
• Movie screening expulsion: whose hearts and minds are up for grabs?
• What students need from their professors.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: are all traits adaptive?
• My world is collapsing to a singularity.
• The women who taught me science.
• Scenes from the science fair.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: there's *what* in the water?
• Recommended reads on women in math, science, engineering.
• If the science pipeline breaks, the rest of us get hurt, too.
• Why more racial diversity in the science blogosphere would be a good thing
• Happy birthday PZ!
• Friday Sprog Blogging: lizards on the rocks.
• A cool science and engineering challenge for curious kids.
• Science fair judges needed.
• Talking with kids about drugs.
• Should researchers share data?
• Should I be ABD before I have a baby? (and other questions about academic motherhood)
• Friday Sprog Blogging: graphic content.
• A moment of navel-gazing about writing a science blog.
• A desk of one's own.
• Basic concepts: scientific anti-norms (part 2).
• How committed are paleontologists to objectivity (in questions of ethical conduct)?
• Basic concepts: scientific anti-norms.
• The future of philosophical discourse.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: psychic visions.
• Senior scientists, give us some good news!
• Ask an ethicist: How can I stand up to misbehavior in my field?
• Book review: Intuition.
• Ask a Science Blogger, sort of: my life in half a dozen words.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: mutants.
• A tangle of controversy -- and a plea to start untangling.
• What's a disease?
• links for 2008-02-12
• Learning student names.
• Graduate students: NSF Debating Science program.
• Blogiversary programming notes.
• A (qualified) 'woo-hoo!'
• Friday Sprog Blogging: random bullets of critters.
• The project of being a grown-up scientist (part 2).
• Rules, community standards, and policing: Casey Luskin and ResearchBlogging.
• Two scientists ('we're not ethicists') step up to teach research ethics, and have fun doing it.
• The project of being a grown-up scientist (part 1).
• links for 2008-02-05
• Who has the biggest snakepit?
• Blogroll Amnesty Day
• links for 2008-02-03
• Superbowl parties, double dipping, and strategies for emerging alive.
• links for 2008-02-02
• Way to represent your professional community, dude!
• Peer reviewer behaving badly (and why it matters).
• Friday Sprog Blogging: explaining eggs.
• Paleontologists behaving badly.
• links for 2008-01-30
• Basic concepts: the norms of science.
• Why I teach.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: the mind-body-self question.
• Noticing class privilege.
• Tracking down a source.
• Help build the science blogging ethics wiki.
• A few thoughs on conferences.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: heat transfer.
• links for 2008-01-12
• Research with vulnerable populations: considering the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (part 2).
• Friday Sprog Blogging: rainy day planetarium show.
• Is a fake university a step up or down from a diploma mill?
• Ethical considerations in the development of a male birth control pill.
• links for 2008-01-10
• Research with vulnerable populations: considering the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (part 1).
• links for 2008-01-09
• Why ethics matter to science.
• links for 2008-01-08
• Random bullets and programming notes.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: who's being trained?
• New Year's Eve: fun with cover versions.
• 'Give one, get one' XO offer extended through December 31.
• On the slings and arrows of the philosophical job market.
• Anemones.
• From the annals of academic dishonesty: a bad way to fish for extra points.
• Eleven (sand)pipers (sand)piping.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: FSB year in review.
• Tradition takes its toll
• Not a creature was stirring
• Can you go home for the holidays?
• Spotted jellies.
• Green gingerbread construction.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: co-evolution
• Celebratory end-of-semester meme.
• The ethics of performance enhancing drugs in academe.
• Department of poetic justice.
• Year-in-review meme.
• Caroling mice: words of advice.
• Moon jellies.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: random bullets of December.
• Tenure decisions.
• A science debate, not a science exam.
• In defense of 'flip-floppers': attention to reality matters.
• Santa's scientific credentials.
• A question someone ought to study.
• Questions for the presidential candidates: where do you stand on science?
• Hungry flowers.
• Climate change driven movie pitch.
• Obeying the sign(s).
• Friday Sprog Blogging: nighthawks.
• The Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme.
• Kids today!
• The line between chemistry and physics during the chemical revolution.
• Brain-Friendly Giftables, 2007: the 'Hanukkah starts tonight?!' edition.
• Advice for academic job seekers: do some homework on your prospective students.
• Drawing lines between chemistry and physics.
• Follow-up: why did the cheating poll for frosh engineering students have those answers?
• InaDWriMo: how it went.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: academic integrity for first graders.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: eyes and empiricism.
• There are days when having a body is inconvenient.
• What freshman engineering students think about cheating.
• Not letting your high morals turn you into a cheater-pants.
• Look out, children! There's an ethicist!
• Questions I have for Paul Davies after reading his NYT op-ed.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: seasonal art projects, and questions they raise.
• Are certain forms of address ill-suited to academe?
• What people know about animal care at my university.
• Temptations that might become irresistable
• Friday Sprog Blogging: did it have to be fish?
• A bit of holiday shopping that brings a laptop to a child in the developing world.
• Does valuable information want to be free?
• The Stemwedel Index of Luddite nature.
• Blogger Challenge 2007: how we did
• Friday Sprog Blogging: humans and animals
• A plea to vote in the Weblog Awards poll
• What I'd really like one of these semesters
• Quick thoughts on the Writers' Guild of America strike.
• InaDWriMo: help me get writing!
• How not to make the case for animal rights.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: you learned *what*?
• Getting involved with more than your wallet: strategies for supporting science and math education.
• Rudy Baum responds to questions about C&E News.
• Waiting for the last minute to donate to the Blogger Challenge?
• The ethics of science blogging: help set the agenda.
• In earthquake country, familiarity breeds ... yawn.
• Ten challenges met, ten still in play.
• Don't miss your (very good) chance at today's drawing!
• Blogger Challenge 2007: how's your team doing?
• In case your need for nerd poetry today is not fully satisfied ...
• Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art + poem: reptiles.
• Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art + poem: the brain.
• Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art: insects.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: matter matters we need to pursue.
• Dispatch from SERMACS: surreal moments.
• An open letter to the ACS.
• The "I rank number one on Google" meme (and dark mutterings about technology).
• Blogger Challenge update (day 23): where we are now, and where we can go.
• Checking in from ASIS&T 2007: brief comments on our session.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: scaling problems
• Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art + poem: rainforest.
• Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art: seascape.
• Blogger Challenge 2007: the halfway mark.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: talking and listening
• Blogger Challenge progress report (day 11) plus prizes from Seed!
• Breaking news on the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge.
• A quick Blogger Challenge update (day 6).
• Arcane nerd knowledge revealed: a nice way to solve Rubik's Cube.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: more about matter.
• Fun with numbers: Blogger Challenge update (day 4).
• I know there's a saying about ignorance not being a defense, but who has time to look it up?
• Fifty years after Sputnik.
• Is the NCAA encouraging academic fraud?
• Another ScienceBlogger enters the Blogger Challenge!
• Other bloggers offer (better?) incentives for Blogger Challenge donors.
• Special incentives for your donation to my DonorsChoose challenge.
• Raising money for classroom projects to create a more scientifically literate society (DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2007)
• Six Apart encourages your philanthropy with gift certificates.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: circuitry.
• Memo to the FSU Athletics Department: 'learning' and 'cheating' are not synonyms.
• Do you self-report lab mishaps?
• Does specifying one's guilty pleasures require an analysis of 'guilt' and 'pleasure'?
• A postcard from academe: my tenure dossier.
• A little ditty about a fertile object of scientific study.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: random bullets to start off the school year.
• Facebook needs to hire the ghost of Potter Stewart.
• Ask a Pirate Blogger.
• Are imaginary friends a prima facie disqualification for a judge?
• Ask a Science Blogger: what should I pack for the collapse of civilization?
• My mug has a disclaimer.
• Survey on the impact of blogs about science on the world outside the blogosphere.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: why school?
• A code of ethics for scientists.
• Freedom in the classroom.
• Question of the day: Is extra credit fair?
• I probably should have paid more attention to non-standard logics.
• A good way to spoil free wifi at the coffee house.
• Requiem for a landline.
• Finding cash to make learning happen.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: adaptive strategies.
• Memo to whom it may concern.
• C&E News on writing journal articles.
• This seems backwards to me.
• What the scientists don't talk about in their papers tells you something, too.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: FSB goes CSI.
• Doing the math: how plausible is the claim that changing what you eat makes more difference to global warming than changing what you drive?
• Reacting to PRISM and publishers' concerns about 'scientific integrity' (the short version).
• How do you think we ought to deal with information about bad actors?
• Discomfort with the gray areas in animal research.
• Monday brainteaser.
• DVD review: Physicians - Speaking for Research.
• On the perils of choosing a T-shirt on s Friday that includes a committee meeting.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: fixing a hole.
• Three cheers for Dr. May!
• Thursday night RBOC.
• Temptations for engineering students.
• Why a Luddite like myself likes teaching an online course.
• Audience participation: help me flag good posts for non-scientists trying to understand science.
• Thoughts on the passing of Leona Helmsley.
• What are we *really* like? (Thoughts on meeting people you know from online in real life.)
• Piecing together what happened in New York last weekend.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: thoughts while hiking.
• How big a risk is my laser printer?
• Passing thoughts about conference presentations.
• Answering my email in a post.
• Brian May submits thesis; defense still ahead.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: summer outings in review
• Does analytic philosophy give you Asperger's Syndrome?
• If you pay us to put your name on our college, what are you expecting us to give up in return?
• Some light reading on animal research regulations.
• UCSF sued by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine over treatment of lab animals.
• Pushing the juggling metaphor a little further.
• Balance is a nice idea, but my reality is closer to juggling.
• Brief remarks on 'physics first' and high school science.
• Fun with paper chromatography.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: hear hear!
• The ScienceBlogs page on Wikipedia needs your input.
• Is a shift away from peer review cause for concern?
• Lessons from the Ward Churchill case.
• The other ScienceBloggers will be back soon.
• Murphy's law of conferences?
• Opening lines of communication between universities and the FBI.
• A resolution for the Tripoli six.
• Book review: The Canon.
• Basic concepts: refrigeration.
• Some questions about the cadaver calculator.
• Happy Caturday!
• Online source for hands-on chemistry (for kids).
• Friday Sprog Blogging: scare-owls.
• Book review: Storm World.
• Studying the ubiquitous (a puzzle about experimental design).
• Science in the courtroom: is 'made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar' false advertising?
• Science blogger (and soon to be former academic) shares Gruber Prize.
• Soon to be a major motion picture?
• Does writing off philosophy of science cost the scientists anything?
• A branch of learning that 'need not be learned'?
• Some of our language needs an update.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: field trip to the Exploratorium.
• Why does Medawar hate the scientific paper?
• Does thinking like a scientist lead to bad science writing?
• OpenWetWare
• Book review: The Ethical Chemist.
• Clarity and obfuscation in scientific papers.
• Is it science envy, or science gluttony?
• Basic concepts: phase changes.
• Programming note.
• Friday Sprog Blogging: pest management.
• Is medicine an art or a science?
• Book review: Generation Rx.
• Ka-BOOM! (A few words on fireworks.)
• A singularly bad way to respond to an ethical problem.
• All I want from science fiction.
• Kept all my notebooks; what good are notebooks?
• Discretion, deception, and communication between scientists and non-scientists.
• Lab notebooks and graduate research: what should the policy be?
• I think Google Maps are bad for me.
• Chem 2.0
• Friday Sprog Blogging: wild animal sightings.
• Real-life encounters with online persons.
• Fine-tuning an analogy.
• Apocalypse preparedness.
• A pair of keyboard related questions.
• Book review: Scientific Misconduct and Its Cover-Up - Diary of a Whistleblower.
• Stuff worth reading.
• Tenure-track faculty and departmental decision making.
• Extra benefit of the growing 'green chemistry' movement.
• Birth order, familial environment, and 'intelligence'.
• Scientific plausibility of Never Let Me Go.