Week of Science Including Mendel’s Garden
Thanks to Lisa who prodded me to go sign up, I’ve joined the rest of the bloggers in declaring next week A Week of Science from February 5 through Feburary 11, 2007.
Bloggers who self-identify as scientists and science writers should post on:
1. Published, peer-reviewed research and their own research.
2. Their expert opinion on actual scientific debates - think review articles.
3. Descriptions of natural phenomena (e.g., why slugs dissolve when you put salt on them, or what causes sun flares; scientific knowledge that has reached the level of fact)
To be honest, I wasn’t really sure I’d fit in even though I post only about genetics and anything touching on DNA. The whole week seems so hardcore and Genetics and Health is mostly optimistic and informational rather than “hard bloggin’“. (Although I admit to having snarky moments.) Perhaps I’ll get kicked out of science week. We shall see! Greg Laden might get booted before me. ;)
The main point of having a week of just science is because many bloggers enjoy debating politically charged subjects such as creationism (intelligent design) and evolution or another hot button topic - climate change and global warming at the cost of ignoring other valuable science. Personally, I like to stick to topics that relate to health and everyday life so I’m not quite sure how next week will differ from any other week for me at Genetics and Health but I wanted to join in support of science anyway.
Don’t forget that on Friday, February 9th, we’re having a party here where I’ll host genetics blog carnival Mendel’s Garden. Please submit your posts by Thursday, February 8th via this link. I will include anything that discusses genetics, genes, or DNA. Thank you!
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4 opinions for Week of Science Including Mendel’s Garden
Greg Laden
Jan 31, 2007 at 2:09 am
Whatever I do I’ll be a hero in the end because I plan a series of Darwin Posts for that week. Can’t go wrong sidling up to the man….
Paul Decelles
Feb 1, 2007 at 5:37 am
Well Hsien, that’s why you wanted to put the Garden on the 9th so it will count as your post that day. Just kidding. As you know this challenge gets at one of my pet peeves about science blogs so I am taking the challenge as well. My problem is a regularly scheduled non science carnival (Kansas Guild of Bloggers) due out on the 5th. Maybe I can sneak around that.
Greg Laden
Feb 1, 2007 at 12:45 pm
My understanding of how this works is that it does not require specialists to shift specialty. The browsers can’t graze and the grazers cant browse, but the grazers don’t have to browse.
It would be nice to go even beyond this and require all of the creationist sites to have only real science content …. but I don’t think that would be allowed.
Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD
Feb 2, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Greg: lol @ browsers and grazers MoooOOoo.
Paul: Haven’t you figured out already that I’m tricky? ;)
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