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April 24, 2013

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10:37 PM | Ontario Throws Lifeline to Long-Running Canadian Research Project

Experimental Lakes Area facility to get temporary infusion of funds

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9:59 PM | Harvard Medical School to Shutter Primate Research Center

After nearly 50 years, the New England Primate Research Center will "wind down" because of financial pressures, officials say

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8:01 PM | Letting in More Skilled Foreign Workers Could Discourage U.S. Talent, Report Argues

Authors hope to sway thinking in intensifying debate over U.S. immigration reform

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8:00 PM | Tropical Medicine Researcher to Lead Wellcome Trust

Jeremy Farrar, head of Oxford research unit in Vietnam, takes over at $1 billion agency

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7:06 PM | A Stray Thought, Plus, For A Good Time On The ‘Tubes, Really Scary Microbe Edition

Sad to say, but true, some folks have complained to me that I don’t give enough notice of all the good stuff. So, as usual around here, the beatings continue until morale improves… …which is something of an apology for the fact that I’m only now mentioning that at 5 p.m. Eastern time I’ll be [...]

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7:00 PM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Blogging as a PhD student & for a University Blog

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case

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6:22 PM | Facing Ridiculous Claims

In the **The Daily Show: John Oliver Investigates Gun Control in Australia**, John Oliver shows a good way to solve the problem of facing ridiculous claims. In the first part alone, he does it twice: the first occurence is at 3:44, the second at 3:58. What John Oliver does is brilliantly simple.

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5:08 PM | Concerns about planetary funding in 2013 and 2014

While much of the attention in the upcoming hearings this afternoon and tomorrow morning on NASA’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget will be on items like the agency’s new asteroid initiative, SLS and Orion, and commercial crew, one other topic that may get some notice is the agency’s planetary science budget. Congress moved to partially [...]

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5:00 PM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: The Incubator Blog at Rockefeller University

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case

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4:43 PM | H7N9 Is an 'Unusually Dangerous Virus,' International Group of Experts Concludes

Taiwan reports first case; patient had traveled to mainland China

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3:02 PM | Open Data and Publicly-Funded Research

Mandatory open data in publicly-funded researh may well be best for the greatest possible amount of academic reworking and even the greatest overall commercial exploitation, but it's not necessarily the way for taxpayers to get the best return on their investment

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3:00 PM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: The Node

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case

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1:00 PM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Trials and Tribulations – Setting up a University Blog

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case

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11:00 AM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Can a research Institute do social media? Yes, ICaMB!

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case

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8:50 AM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: An Open Science Blog

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case

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12:45 AM | Weird Month in Duluth

There has been an extraordinary snowfall in Duluth Minnesota this month.

April 23, 2013

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8:55 PM | What’s Wrong with Keystone? A Million Answers

Climate Science Watch is among those arguing cogently that "There are multiple reasons to reject the [State Department's draft environmental impact statement] as inadequate and misleading and to oppose granting a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline." We republish their arguments here. The opposition got a boost from the success of 350.org in collecting 1,000,000 letters in opposition to Keystone, as well as from recent actions by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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6:22 PM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Using Tumblr to Bridge Scientific Communities On Campus

Jeffrey Lancaster is the Emerging Technologies Coordinator, Science & Engineering Libraries, at Columbia University Libraries/Information

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3:00 PM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: The Ask a Scientist Website

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case

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1:00 PM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Google+ Hangouts

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case

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12:49 PM | Social media for science outreach – reviving the #reachingoutsci discussions

A few weeks ago, we announced our intention to celebrate SpotOn NYC’s 2nd birthday with

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11:18 AM | A busy week of NASA hearings

Several hearings this week by House and Senate committees will examine NASA’s 2014 budget request and its overall space exploration plans. The hearings start this afternoon with one on “Challenges and Opportunities for Human Space Exploration” by the Senate Commerce Committee’s space subcommittee. Scheduled to testify are NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations [...]

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11:00 AM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Promoting Science Videos – Youreka Science

Originally from France, Florie Charles pursued her Bachelor’s of Science at McGill University in Anatomy

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9:00 AM | Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: CTOR Podcasts

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case

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7:30 AM | Croatia bucks the EU trend of increased science funding

Croatia's investment in science from 2005-2011 as a percentage of GDP has dropped, singling it out in the EU, according to the 'Science, technology and innovation in Europe - 2013 edition' report published by the European Commission this month (12 April). Croatia's average annual growth rate in science investment was around minus two per cent compared with an EU average growth rate of around three per cent. The percentage of GDP that goes to R&D in Croatia - around 0.75%... Read more

April 22, 2013

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9:23 PM | Costa Rica's INBio Facing Government Bailout

Biodiversity institute to transfer collections and park to federal control in bid to pay debt

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5:56 PM | For a Good Time In Cambridge: Philosophy, Judaism, Ferociously Smart People Edition

Dear all, I’ve been a bit slow in posting this one — I was distracted just a bit last week for some reason…but tomorrow evening I’ll be moderating a really fascinating panel (if this sort of thing fascinates you). The event is titled Hilary Putnam’s Jewish Journey, with a cut line that adds “an exploration [...]

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11:30 AM | Week in Review, or Micromanaging Research Budgets

Amidst the tragedies in Boston and Texas this last week, Congress debated gun safety, immigration, and whether the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) should have to certify all NSF research grants as “in the national interest.” Regarding the FY 2014 budget, new information emerged this week about the President’s budget request, including the [...]

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10:51 AM | White House, members of Congress respond to Antares launch

Sunday afternoon Orbital Sciences Corporation successfully launched its Antares rocket on its inaugural flight, a test mission carrying a demonstration payload and several smallsats. Company officials said the launch, one of the final milestones in the company’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) award from NASA, went well, paying the way for a launch this summer [...]

April 20, 2013

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1:42 PM | Still more Q & A on "cultural cognition scales" -- and on the theory behind & implications of them

I was starting to formulate a contribution to some of the great points made in discussion of the post on Q&A on "cultural cogniton" scales" & figured I might as well post the response. I encourage others to read the comments--you'll definitely learn more from them than from what I'm saying here, but maybe a marginal bit more still if you read my contribution in addition to those reflections. And almost certainly more still if others are moved by what I have to say here to refine and […]

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