by podblack on July 30, 2010
Really proud to see Bec Crew of the Save Your Breath for Running Ponies! blog has won the Best Australian Science Blog prize for Australia’s Science Week!! (Not just because I’d said that I’d dye my hair if I won, and now I don’t have to! Wahoo!) Ms Crew, who is based in Sydney and [...]
by podblack on July 22, 2010
Daniel Keogh, who was interviewed in Token Skeptic episode #30, gives some suggestions as to what makes a good science blogger! Oh — and vote vote vote — head to Science Week’s The Big Blog Theory, found at this link — notice that there’s a microblogging category as well as science blogging (which is where [...]
by podblack on July 13, 2010
BLURRED BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY What does it mean to be human when science mixes us with animals and technology? Speakers include: Oron Catts (SymbioticA) and Mike Alder (UWA). Has technology and censorship revolutionised the terror game? Ran in just as it started – so I’ll have to fill in the gaps regarding the live-blogging later [...]
by podblack on February 26, 2010
Hah! It worked! A little while back I begged you fine readers to Vote For Me – Research Blogging Awards! And you did! What-the? Funniest Blog Finalists: Skeptic Wonder (RB page) Placebo Journal NCBI ROFL Deep Sea News (RB page) Supernova Condensate (RB page) Mauka to Makai (RB page) Good, Bad, and Bogus (RB page) [...]
by podblack on February 14, 2010
*Sigh* Astoundingly busy Valentine’s day weekend, including sorting out travel plans for the end of the year and catching up with family. Just by scheduling everything it’s kind of squeezed out getting stuff online – so, distract yourself with the new Homologous Legs blog post: Carnival of the Godless, No. 135 – Darwintine’s Day Edition! [...]
by podblack on February 13, 2010
Before I begin – thanks to everyone who has been waiting for the Token Skeptic podcast to come out – I strongly recommend you check out the Princess Scientist Podcast while you’re waiting over the next twelve hours or so for me to post up the ‘missing episodes’! As Mur Lafferty, podcaster, author and continual [...]
by podblack on January 13, 2010
Congratulations to the Digital Cuttlefish for getting into the annual Open Laboratory for the THIRD time!! Announcing the posts that will be published in The Open Laboratory 2009! The Cuttlefish Genome project, by the Digital Cuttlefish. Very very well done to all the entries, I was really pleased to note quite a few bloggers who [...]
by podblack on December 23, 2009
A few new developments on the horizon and looks like the off-line life is going to be a little more serious than usual for a while too. For people who haven’t checked out all the work on this site (there’s actually quite a bit, the more I look over it, which honestly surprises me) – [...]