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SCIENCE 2.0 -- IS OPEN ACCESS SCIENCE THE FUTURE?

 

My trip to Madeira was a lot like my leave, low expectations and quietly, immeasurably pleasurable. That's the moral of the story: the circumference has to be small for the experience to be deep.

Last one. :)

Read on for my notes from Jennifer Ouelette's session, entitled Adventures in Science Blogging.

After this, I'll give your feed reader a break and post my conclusions about the conference later.  

Updated January 20

Read on for my notes on the Framing Science panel, featuring Jennifer Jacquet, Chris Mooney, and Sheril Kirshenbaum, at the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging conference.  

This is the second-to-last liveblog post, I promise. :)

HASTAC was founded on the idea that the humanities, the sciences (social and natural), the arts, and technology are all needed if we are going to think through the implications of a digital future. If there are "Eight Ways to be a HASTAC leader," there are hundreds of ways to contribute to HASTAC's intellectual agenda.

Rosalind Franklin & Wyllie O Hagan, DNA Discoveries in Science and Art

Is the science speed-up to blame for the glitzy multimedia presentation of even the most careful scientific experimental findings as big cure-all, one-size-fits-all generalizations that appear regularly in the mainstream press?

I'm curious about why so many popular and scientific books go from highly empirical and careful analysis of data to the most mind-boggling leaps of faith into the realms of evolutionary biology, the new science fiction, the new scientific theology.

When I descend into cold murky water looking for a shipwreck for historical and archaeological research the quiet and darkness can often make me feel very much alone. But being an underwater archaeologist and the director of an online museum I know I can never do either of those jobs by myself. There is always a team from various sciences there to help raise up the stories of our past from their watery graves.