Icon for Blogging Peer Reviewed research 15 Aug 2007 Dear readers, Dave Munger of Cognitive Daily has suggested that we have a universally available icon to indicate that the blogger is blogging about peer reviewed research, and he has created a discussion blog at BPR3. Please go make suggestions and add to the discussion. Muggins here will implement it when the consensus has been reached. Administrative General Science
Administrative Recursions 28 Feb 2008 Janet asks what others have asked – what is science blogging all about, after a bully in the schoolyard taunted us Sciencebloggers. Her questions (and her answers) are very like mine, so I will steal them, below the fold. Read More
Administrative For the past week, I’ve actually been in Germany 15 Oct 2009 You know those stories about absent minded professors? I just showed that you don’t actually need a professorial appointment. I was meeting Steve Clarke, a leading philosopher who is at Oxford, at 12.45. I turned up on the dot at St Cross College (they have such great names here!), but… Read More
Education Drama, journalism and science 17 Feb 201317 Feb 2013 Recently the Jonah Lehrer scandal was raised again when he was paid $20,000 to speak on his journalistic dishonesty by the Knight Foundation. I cynically noted on Twitter that being honest and as accurate as I could be netted me exactly nothing in the way of honoraria (I think I… Read More
…and watch this icon show up all over the ID sites. Shouldn’t citations in the blog be better than an icon which anyone can copy and paste into their own blog? Seems to me this is just begging to be abused.
People will have to make their own assessments of the worth of the blog. We can’t stop them using it if we allow everyone else to.
Some of us (myself included) are brainstorming ways to police proper use of the icon as well. Go to BPR3.org and throw in our $0.02. I suggested registration and visibility of credentials…