New Facebook friends and blogging advice

Posted in Science at 3:00 pm by David Bradley -- 2 Comments; add yours  

If you’ve been on Facebook for any length of time you will have had friend requests from people you don’t know. That’s fine. Often they’re just spammers. Sometimes, they’re users with whom you might have a few friends in common. If paths haven’t crossed I usually redirect requests to the Sciencebase Facebook page instead of automatically accepting the request. Occasionally, the new wouldbe friend turns out already to “like” the page, says so and starts …

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Research Blogging

Posted in Science at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- 1 Comment  

If you blog about peer-reviewed research, then you’ve probably heard about ResearchBlogging.org by now. It’s an aggregator that pulls together posts from around the world that have added a snippet of code to identify themselves as blogging about peer-reviewed research.

The keen-eyed regulars among you will have spotted the occasional “green-tick” icon next the references I cite in my blog posts here and on the sibling sites Sciencetext and SciScoop, which …

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Sciencebase blogging schedule

Posted in Science at 5:00 pm by David Bradley -- 1 Comment  

This is the Sciencebase blogging schedule for the remainder of 2009:

Sciencebase.com Dec 8 – Science news round-up with a spectral twist

Sciencebase.com Dec 9 Electric vehicles better than hybrids?

ImagingStorm.co.uk – Dec 10 Science of sepia-toned photography

Sciencetext.com Dec 15 Cathartic emails for overworked journalists

Sciencetext.com Dec 16 Tips for Twitter brutes

Sciencebase.com Dec 17 Pre-Xmas science book reviews

SciScoop.com Dec 22 Large Hadron Collider (LHC) diatribe (anon guest post)

Sciencebase.com Dec 23 Green by design

Sciencebase.com Dec 24 Happy Solstice Event

Nothing’s fixed …

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Astronomy to Zoology, Poetically

Posted in Science at 9:08 am by David Bradley -- 14 Comments; add yours  

I’m trying to work out whether I’m a bad science journalist or not…scary thought. If I am, then I’ve wasted the last 20 years of my life.

I started out specializing in chemistry, that was my field. But these days, I cover science much more broadly, although I do still tend to do more chemistry than anything else. It’s all science after all, I’m still a specialist to my arts, humanities, finance, politics colleagues ;-) …

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