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Record of the Week (Week of 3rd November 2014)

Posted on November 9, 2014

After a bit of a hiatus, I return with what’s going to be a bit shorter (from now on) ‘Record of the Week’ where I summarize some of the articles related to the issues of science, technology and society that caught my attention during the past week. I hope you too find them of interest and/or of use.

Citizen Science

SciStarter – Groundbreaking Air Quality Study Demonstrates the Power of Citizen Science

Climate Change

Climatica – In brief: the IPCC Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report

Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit – Embracing the elephant: the IPCC and fossil fuels

The Guardian – Poland rejects IPCC target of zero emissions by 2100

Ebola

Open Culture – The Ebola Virus Explained with Animated Video

Geography

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers – The tactile topologies of Contagion

Science

Brain Pickings – Bill Nye on Evolution and the Science of Creation: A Reading

The Guardian – Biological warfare flares up again between EO Wilson and Richard Dawkins

R&D Management – Scientists’ commitment to underperforming research projects: linking past success and the social environment

Science Communication

Plainspoken Scientist (AGU blog) – Doodling in Science Class: Using Stick Figure Animations to Explain Complex Science

Science Communication – Popular Climate Science and Painless Consumer Choices: Communicating Climate Change in the Hot Pink Flamingos Exhibit, Monterey Bay Aquarium, California

Synthetic Biology

Making Science Public – Making synthetic biology public: Challenges and responsibilities

Other Round Ups

Not Exactly Rocket Science – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (08 November 2014)

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Record of the Week (Week of 16 June 2014)

Posted on June 22, 2014

This weeks round up includes articles on energy, fracking, social media, science communication and more.

ENERGY

The Atlantic – Coal’s Share of Energy Consumption at Highest Level Since 1970

Climate Central –

The Guardian – UK government gives green light to offshore windfarm

Manchester Policy Blogs (Science & Technology) – Wasting the biomass opportunity

FRACKING

The Guardian –

FUKUSHIMA

The Guardian – Fukushima operator struggles to build ice wall to contain radioactive water

Risk Analysis – Managing the Fukushima Challenge

GM

Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience blog – A new approach to governing GM crops? Global lessons from the rising powers

IMPACT

LSE Impact blog – There are no blueprints for policy impact, but you can improve your chances by being flexible and iterative

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

Retraction Watch – “Barriers to retraction may impede correction of the literature:” New study

SCIENCE – RESEARCH

The Guardian (Impact of Research Hub) – ‘DIY labs offer an agile alternative to university-based research’

LSE Impact blog – Surely there’s more to science than money? Economic determinism fails to capture science’s practical social benefit.

SCIENCE – COMMUNICATION

Cultural Cognition Project blog – External validity of climate-science-communication studies: ruminations part 1

Dot Earth blog – Exploring Academia’s Role in Charting Paths to a ‘Good’ Anthropocene

Talking Climate – The language that leaves people behind

SOCIAL MEDIA

The Guardian (Film blog) – How Twitter killed the official movie website

STEM

Work in Progress blog – Why does John get the STEM job rather than Jennifer? The Implicit Gender Biases of Scientists

WORLD CUP

Fast Co. Design – The Curious History of the World Cup Soccer Ball

New York Times – The World’s Ball

OTHER ROUND UPS

BPS Research Digest – Link feast (psychology and neuroscience links from the past week)

The Bubble Chamber – Weekly Roundup

LSE Impact blog – Impact Round-Up 21st June: Universities as big business, coding the future, and openings in knowledge production.

National Geographic (Not Exactly Rocket Science) – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (21 June 2014)

Retraction Watch – Weekend reads: Scientific fraudster given royal honor; the Retraction Watch theme song!

Savage Minds – Around the Web Digest: Week of June 15

Somatosphere – In the Journals, June 2014 – Part I

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Record of the Week (Week of 9 June 2014)

Posted on June 16, 2014

This week’s record includes links to articles on anthropology, risk communication, public engagement, social media and more…

ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology in Practice – Why are we sleeping with our phones?

Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) blog – Waiting for the Rain: Techno-Scientific Landslide Mitigation in Teziutlán, Puebla, Mexico (Part II)

LSE Field Research Lab – Researcher’s social capital: Liaising with local actors for effective ethnographic research

UCL (Global Social Media & Impact Study project blog) – Filmmaking and photography in anthropological research

ENERGY

The Breakthrough Institute – Nuclear Is Cheaper Than Solar Thermal

ENVIRONMENT

Big Think (Risk: Reason & Reality blog) – Godzilla and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism

INTERNET

First Monday – Death and the Internet: The implications of the digital afterlife

Social Media Collective Research blog – New Report Released: Few Legal Remedies for Victims of Online Harassment

ORGANIC FOOD

Journalist’s Resource – Public views and misperceptions relating to organic food: Research on terminology and understanding

RESEARCH & POLICY

Alliance for Useful Evidence – Evidence-based policy: data has its limits

LSE Impact blog – Australian survey indicates policy-makers still have major reservations about assigning priority to academic research

RISK COMMUNICATION

Journal of Risk Research –

SCIENCE – COMMUNICATION

Science Borealis – A little more communications on the side, please

SCIENCE – PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Making Science Public blog –

Pasco Phronesis – The First App Recognized By MoMA Is Full Of Science

SciDevNet – Engaging deaf people in science [VIDEO]

Universities UK blog – Public engagement: overcoming fear and finding time

SCIENCE – RESEARCH

The Guardian (Political Science blog) – Disciplinary dilemma: working across research silos is harder than it looks

SOCIAL MEDIA

Digital Sociology – ‘Like’ your Existence or What is a Selfie?

First Monday – Different spaces: Exploring Facebook as heterotopia

The Sociological Life – Survey on academics’ use of social media (Full report)

Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology – How is research blogged? A content analysis approach

University Affairs – Social media use is sporadic among researchers

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

Responsible Innovation blog – Letter to Nature

OTHER ROUND UPS

BPS Research Digest – Link feast (psychology and neuroscience links from the past week)

The Bubble Chamber – Weekly Roundup

National Geographic (Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science) – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (14 June 2014)

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: Time Inc. tries to survive on its own, and the global shift to mobile news

Retraction Watch – Weekend reads: MERS case report clash, criticizing others’ work in public

Speakers of Science (Communicating Science Together) – Reads of the Week 1 JUne 2014 – Gyms in Brazil, Synaesthesia, Data Journalism and more!

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Record of the Week (Week of 2 June 2014)

Posted on June 8, 2014 Updated on June 9, 2014

This record of the week contains links to posts covering areas of big data, biodiversity, citizen science, climate change, computer games, culture, digital culture. energy, environment, expertise, higher education, responsible research, responsible innovation, scholarly, communication, science communication, science history, public engagement, fracking, social media.

BIG DATA

The Guardian (Learning & Teaching Hub) – Big data can transform learning – as long as lecturers take control

BIODIVERSITY

Political Science blog (hosted by The Guardian) – Can we have a robust public debate on biodiversity offsetting?

The Guardian – Conservationists split over ‘biodiversity offsetting’ plans

CITIZEN SCIENCE

SciStarter blog – Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Citizen Science Throughout an Institution

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Breakthrough Institute – How Ambitious Are the EPA’s Proposed Carbon Dioxide Reductions?: Everything Depends on Your Assumptions About the Future

Climate Desk – 9 Things You Need To Know About Obama’s New Climate Rules

The Cultural Cognition Project blog – Critical thinking about public opinion on climate change

Dot Earth blog – Rhetoric and Realities Around Obama’s ‘Carbon Pollution’ Power Plant Rules

Grist – Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Republicans blew it on climate change

COMPUTER GAMES

The Guardian – Tetris: how we made the addictive computer game

Documentary Film – Tetris: From Russia with Love

CULTURE

Contemporary Social Science – Special Issue: The Olympic Legacy

DIGITAL CULTURE

Culture Digitally –

Cloud [draft] [#digitalkeywords]
Gaming [draft] [#digitalkeywords]

Higher Education Development Association – New: Widespread Digital Illiteracy According to New EU Data

ENERGY – Nuclear / Renewable / etc.

The Breakthrough Institute – EPA Points to Nuclear as Climate Solution: Advanced Nuclear and Preventing Retirement of Plants Key to Carbon Reductions

Globe and Mail – Are Harper’s dreams of Canada as energy superpower going up in smoke?

The Guardian –

Journal of Risk Research – Japan-India civil nuclear energy cooperation: prospects and concerns

Manchester Policy blogs (Science & Technology) – Russian energy policy at a crossroads

ENVIRONMENT

The Guardian – Investigation into 2010 BP oil spill finds failures, poor testing and ongoing risks

EXPERTISE

Climate Desk – This Is Why You Have No Business Challenging Scientific Experts

Health – Networks of knowledge or just old wives’ tales?: A diary-based analysis of women’s self-care practices and everyday lay expertise

Policy Sciences – ‘Neutral’ experts? How input of scientific expertise matters in international environmental negotiations

HIGHER EDUCATION

The Guardian – Oxford University urged to purge its £3.3bn fund of fossil fuel investments

REF

Reciprocal Space – The REF: what is the measure of success?

RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH / INNOVATION

Making Science Public – Responsible research and innovation: challenges and opportunities for governance

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

The Occasional Pamphlet – How universities can support open-access journal publishing

SCIENCE – COMMUNICATION

Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) – Science Cheerleaders – Is There a Role for Hollywood Hyper-publicity in Science Communications?

LSE Impact blog – The growth of the science PR industry has resulted in an overly exaggerated presentation of research findings

Making Science Public – Describing research in plain language is challenging – but worth it

Science Borealis – Physics and astronomy hit the mainstream: Cosmos reboot

Speakers of Science – Science, Religion and Entertainment Media

SCIENCE – HISTORY

Social History of Medicine – Learning from the Common Folks. Academic Physicians and Medical Lay Culture in the Sixteenth Century

SCIENCE – POLICY / & POLICY

The Bridge: Connecting Science & Policy (AGU blog) – The Challenges of Seismic Mitigation in Oregon: Where Science and Policy Meet

LSE Impact blog – Negative stereotypes about the policymaking process hinder productive action toward evidence-based policy

Political Science (Blog hosted by Guardian) – Technology policy in an election year: stop pretending it’s technocratic

Social Science & Medicine – Human embryonic stem cell science and policy: The case of Iran

SCIENCE – PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

The Scholarly Kitchen – Life in a Bubble — The Limitations of Public Access, the Challenges of Public Engagement

SHALE GAS / FRACKING

The Guardian Letters – Lancashire’s shale gas can fill UK energy gap

The Guardian –

SOCIAL MEDIA

Health Affairs – Translating Research For Health Policy: Researchers’ Perceptions And Use Of Social Media [Web First] [OPEN ACCESS]

OTHER ROUND UPS

BPS Research Digest – Link feast

The Bubble Chamber – Weekly Roundup

Journalist’s Resource –

LSE Impact blog – Impact Round-Up 7th June: Prometheus gagged, Einstein’s peer review, and turning repositories into journals.

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: A setback for reporter privilege, and a new New York Times opinion app

Not Exactly Rocket Science – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (07 June 2014)

Savage Minds – Around the Web Digest: Week of June 1

Somatosphere – In the Journals, May 2014 — Part II

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Record of the Week (Week of 26 May 2014)

Posted on June 2, 2014

The round up covers literature from 26 of May 2014 through to 1st of June, inclusive.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Somatosphere –

Savage Minds –

BIG DATA

LSE Impact blog –

CLIMATE CHANGE

Dot Earth Blog (NY Times) –

The Guardian –

CULTURE

Progressive Geographies – National Academy of Sciences report on mass incarceration in the US

Sociological Images – All Hail the Go-Cup: Culture as a Form of Control

DIGITAL CULTURE

Culture Digitally – Sharing [draft] [#digitalkeywords]

DIGITAL SOCIOLOGY

The Sociological Imagination – Digital sociology and the coming crisis of qualitative research

This Sociological Life – Reflexive digital sociology

HIGHER EDUCATION

Higher Education Development Association – News: New Study on STEM Students Learning

The Internet & Higher Education – “I see smart people!”: Using Facebook to Supplement Cognitive and Affective Learning in the University Mass Lecture

INTERNET

The Atlantic – Mobile Is Eating Global Attention: 10 Graphs on the State of the Internet

Fast Co. Design – An Alternative History Of The Web’s Origins

LSE Media Project blog – Wrapping Up the Google Antitrust Investigation: Too Little, Too Late?

JOURNALISM

Journalist’s Resource – Interpreting academic studies: A primer for media

NUCLEAR ENERGY

The Breakthrough Institute – To Carol Browner, Nuclear More Than Just Matters – It’s Essential

OPEN ACCESS

Somatosphere – Open Access — A Special Half-Issue of Cultural Anthropology

PEER REVIEW

Society and Space – The problems of peer review

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Just Publics @365 – Edwin Mayorga on Public Engagement and Digital Access in East Harlem

RESEARCH

Ars Technica – Research funding bill made less awful, but still guts social sciences

SOCIAL MEDIA

Ars Technica –

LSE Impact blog – Publicly available data from Twitter is public evidence and does not necessarily constitute an “ethical dilemma”.

Nieman Journalism Lab – How is Twitter different during a big news event? Personal chatter goes down, attention shifts to elites

SCIENCE – COMMUNICATION

COMPASS blogs – Top Ten Tip-lists for Sharing Your Science

SCIENCE – HISTORY

History & Technology: An International Journal – ‘Applied science’ in nineteenth-century Britain: public discourse and the creation of meaning, 1817–1876

SCIENCE – LITERACY

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society – Critical Science Literacy: What Citizens and Journalists Need to Know to Make Sense of Science

SCIENCE – POLICY / & POLICY

KMbeing – Scientific Experts & A “Cherry-Picking” Prime Minister

LSE Impact Blog – A New Politics of Knowledge? Exploring the contested boundaries between science, knowledge and policy.

PLoS One – Identifying the Science and Technology Dimensions of Emerging Public Policy Issues through Horizon Scanning [OPEN ACCESS]

SCIENCE – PRACTICES

Science as Culture – Agential Conversations: Interviewing Postdoctoral Life Scientists and the Politics of Mundane Research Practices

SCIENCE – PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Science as Culture – Public Engagement with Climate Change as Scientific Citizenship: A Case Study of World Wide Views on Global Warming [Ahead of Print]

Journal of Association for Information Science & Technology – Seven dimensions of contemporary participation disentangled

SCIENCE WARS

Making Science Public blog – Science wars and science peace: Some personal reflections

OTHER ROUND UPS

Climate Central – Summer Reading for the Climate Crowd

Don’t Get Caught (Communications blog) – The Weekend Read

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: Kinsley vs. Greenwald on NSA secrets, and new data on mobile’s rise

Not Exactly Rocket Science (Ed Yong’s blog) – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (31 May 2014)

Retraction Watch – Weekend reads: Förster defense crumbling, peer-reviewed journalism, heated rhetoric about replication

Savage Minds – Around the Web Digest: Week of May 25

Somatosphere –

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Record of the Week (Week of 19 May 2014)

Posted on May 25, 2014

ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology in Practice – The Stories Our Refrigerators Tell

Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) – Translating South Asian Classical Medicine for Global Markets

Savage Minds –

Somatosphere – Scale

CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE

The Guardian –

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Climate Institute (Australia) –

Environmental Communication – Global Journalism in Decision-Making Moments: A Case Study of Canadian and American Television Coverage of the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen [Ahead of Print]

The Guardian –

CONFERENCE ROUND UP

CIRCLING THE SQUARE: Research, Politics, Media and Impact (20-22 May 2014, University of Nottingham)
Also see,

Making Science Public blog –

CULTURE

Culture Digitally – Geek [draft] [#digitalkeywords]

FRACKING

Grist – Stop Fracked Gas Exports Now!

The Guardian –

INTERNET

LSE Media Policy Project – Baseless Moral Panic: Parents should ask Why Kids use Internet, not Blame It

JOURNALISM

Nieman Journalism Lab – When “data jouranlism” becomes “datum journalism”

NUCLEAR ENERGY

EPC: Government and Policy – Planning reform, rescaling, and the construction of the postpolitical: the case of The Planning Act 2008 and nuclear power consultation in the UK

Journal of Risk Research – Nuclear licensing in the United States: enhancing public confidence in the regulatory process

OPEN ACCESS

The Scholarly Kitchen – Open Access: Fundamentals to Fundamentalists

RISK COMMUNICATION

Journal of Risk Research – More questions than answers: a response to ‘Four questions for risk communication’ by Roger Kasperson (2014)

Just Publics @365 – How Should a Community Use Digital Media to Plan for Emergency Response?

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology – ResearchGate: Disseminating, communicating, and measuring Scholarship?

LSE Impact blog – What can be done to prevent the proliferation of errors in academic publications?

The Scholarly Kitchen – University Presses: “Under Fire” or Just Under the Gun (Like the Rest of Us)?

SCIENCE – COMMERCIALIZATION

Slate – Thomas Edison Was a “Patent Troll”

SCIENCE – COMMUNICATION

Attheinterface – The peril of the press release

Canadian Science Writers’ Association – Raisins In Space: The Role of Analogies in Science Journalism

History and Technology – Making science at home: visual displays of space science and nuclear physics at the Science Museum and on television in postwar Britain [Ahead of Print]

The Plainspoken Scientist (AGU blogosphere) – Crafting Your Own Visuals for Science Communication: Part II

SCIENCE – DATA

F1000 Research blog – Stopping the rot: ensuring continued access to scientific data, irrespective of age.

SCIENCE – EDUCATION

Science & Education –

SCIENCE – & POLICY

The Bridge (AGU blogosphere) – Applying science to natural resource policy issues: Social science joins natural and physical sciences

SCIENCE – PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Cultural Cognition Project blog – More on public “trust of scientists”: *You* tell *me* what it means!

Refractive Index – An Experiment in Dialogue: from facts to values

Sciencewise – Public and Stakeholder Dialogue: every journey begins with a single step

SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Media Examiner – 2014 Social Media Marketing Industry Report

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

The Guardian – Science Weekly podcast: the synthetic biology revolution

OTHER

LSE Review of Books – Book Review: Are We All Scientific Experts Now? by Harry Collins

The Guardian – Antibiotic resistance in farm animals ‘threatened by UK cuts’

OTHER ROUND UPS

Campaign for Science & Engineering (CaSe; UK) – Recent Round up

CitizenSci (PLoS blogs) – Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: Weekly Roundup

Don’t Get Caught (Communications) – Weekend Read

The Guardian – Green news roundup: bison, Fukushima and carbon capture

LSE Impact blog – Impact Round-Up 24th May: GitHub for science, research in the national interest, and myths of ‘big data’

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: Politics, gender, and digital innovation at The New York Times

Not Exactly Rocket Science (Ed Yong’s blog) – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (05 May 2014)

Retraction Watch – Weekend reads: Scientific bullying (again), science journalism looks inward

Speakers of Science – Reads of the Week 23 May 2014 – Ageing, Infographic Crack, the longitude prize and more!

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Record of the Week (Week of 12 May 2014)

Posted on May 18, 2014

ANIMAL TESTING

The Guardian (Comment is Free) – Animal testing should not be shrouded in secrecy. We need real reform now

ANTHROPOLOGY

Savage Minds – The Anthropologist as Scholarly Hipster, Part IV: Authenticity and Privilege

CITIZEN SCIENCE

CitizenSci (PLoS blogs) – Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: What citizen science has told us

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Breakthrough Institute – Why Innovation Should Be at the Heart of Climate Policy

The Bridge (AGU Blogosphere) – 4 maps on America’s climate and energy outlook: 2 that will worry you, 2 that will give you hope

Climate Access – Moving below zero emissions

Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience blog – Rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement

LSE Impact Blog – A study with erroneous claims about the impacts of global warming has finally been corrected

Climate Outreach & Information Network (COIN) (UK) – Science & stories: Bringing the IPCC to life

COMMUNICATION

Environmental Communication – Media Frames and Cognitive Accessibility: What Do “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” Evoke in Partisan Minds? [Ahead of Print]

Just Publics @365 – Clear Communication is Vital in Emergency Response

ENERGY

The Breakthrough Institute –

Citizen Joe Smith – Stories of Change: arts and social sciences support energy transitions

Climate Central – ‘Catastrophe’ Claim Adds Fuel to Methane Debate

The Guardian (Eco Audit) – What is the most dangerous form of energy?

FRACKING

Cultural Cognition Project blog – So much for that theory . . . (fracking freaks me out #2)

The Guardian – Sussex police under fire for ‘criminalising’ fracking protests

Science & Technology (Manchester Policy Blogs) – Evidence ignored amid Lords committee’s bullishness on fracking

OPEN ACCESS

LSE Impact blog – Academic opinions of Wikipedia and open access will improve with more active involvement

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

The Scholarly Kitchen – What Researchers Value from Publishers, Canadian Survey

SCIENCE – COLLABORATION

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology – The triple helix and international collaboration in science

SCIENCE – COMMUNICATION

COMPASS blogs – Burning Down Communication Barriers Among Fire Scientists

Making Science Public blog – Worms: Workhorses of science and science communication

Not Exactly Rocket Science (National Geographic) – On Science Journalism, Blogs, and The Wow Beat

Research to Action – Research and the media: fighting the anxiety

Speakers of Science blog – Non-Verbal Communication: What are we really saying?

SCIENCE – KNOWLEDGE USE

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology – Struggling for space and finding my place: An interactionist perspective on everyday use of biomedical information

SCIENCE – POLITICS / POLICY / & POLICY

Canadian Science Writers’ Association – Founder of foraging gene says understanding science affects policy-making

LSE Impact blog – The Evidence Information Service: rapid matchmaker for connecting politicians with thousands of UK researchers.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Discourse & Communication – Enacting identity in microblogging through ambient affiliation

TB

The Guardian – UK government conducting secret badger sett-gassing trials

TECHNOLOGY

Sociological Imagination – Thirty Years On: Lessons from the Home Computer Boom

The Scholarly Kitchen – Keeping It Real — Are Our Technology Expectations Out of Whack?

OTHER ROUND UPS

The Atlantic – Bye Bye, Barbara: The Week’s Best Pop-Culture Writing

Don’t Get Caught (Communications blog) – The Weekend Read

The Guardian – Green news roundup: Ice sheets, nuclear waste and Marco Rubio

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: Behind The Times’ big change, and the FCC’s proposal moves forward

Not Exactly Rocket Science (National Geographic) – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (17 May 2014)

Retraction Watch – Weekend reads: A call for retraction of therapy-breast cancer study; credit (and pay) for peer reviewers

Social Media Examiner – Facebook Audience Insights: This Week in Social Media

Speakers of Science blog – Reads of the Week 16 May 2014 – Science Journalism, body clocks and more

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Record of the Week (Week of 5 May 2014)

Posted on May 11, 2014 Updated on May 13, 2014

Science, technology and society literature round up from the week commencing with 5th of May.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Savage Minds – Anthropologists as Hipsters

Somatosphere – Heart

BIG DATA

Harvard Business Review blog – Rethinking Big Data to Give Consumers More Control

CITIZEN SCIENCE

SciStarter blog – A Coming of Age for Citizen Science [OP-ED]

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Breakthrough Institute – The Conservative Case for Climate Policy

AGU’s ‘The Bridge’ blog –

Climate Central –

The Guardian – Climate change making food crops less nutritious, research finds

CONSERVATION

The Breakthrough Institute – Marine Biodiversity is the New Frontier of Conservation

DATA VISUALIZATION

Harvard Business Review blog –

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

LSE Impact blog – Digital humanities platforms set to challenge technical barriers to digital research skills development.

ENERGY

The Guardian – UK energy too cheap, says study

ENVIRONMENT

The Breakthrough Institute (Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger) – Moderate Environmentalists Go Nuclear

FRACKING

Grist –

OPEN ACCESS

Cultural Anthropology – OPENING ACCESS: Publics, Publication, and a Path to Inclusion

The Scholarly Kitchen – A Modest Proposal for Scaled-up Open Access

SCIENCE

Campaign for Science & Engineering (CaSE) – New CaSE report: Improving diversity in STEM

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

AGU’s ‘The Plainspoken Scientist’ blog – Crafting Your Own Visuals for Science Communication: Part I

Speakers of Science – Priorities in SciComm – Taking Science Out of the “Cultural Ghetto”

Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing (CASTAC) blog – Cosmos: A Spacetime Conversation

SCIENCE EDUCATION

Cultural Studies of Science Education – STEM policy and science education: scientistic curriculum and sociopolitical silences
SCIENCE IMPACT

Atheinterface blog – 20p for every pound: the value of the UK’s science base

SCIENCE POLICY

Manchester Policy Blogs: Science & Technology – Policy, partnerships, collaborations; laying the foundations for graphene city

Compass Blogs – Balancing Act: Finding a Place for Policy Engagement

SOCIAL MEDIA

Don’t Get Caught (Communications blog) – What my first tweet–and yours–can teach you about Twitter

Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Blog – Twitter and wildfires: Microblogging emergency information

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology – Real-time classification of twitter trends

The New York Times – Russia Quietly Tightens Reins on Web With ‘Bloggers Law’

Social Media Collective Research blog – Adding the bling: The role of social media data intermediaries

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY

The Guardian’s ‘Political Science’ blog – Don’t shut the door on the synthetic biology debate

Inter-Academy Panel – IAP releases Statement on Synthetic Biology

OTHER ROUND UPS

The Bubble Chamber – Weekly Roundup – Supersized

Don’t Get Caught (Communications blog) – The Weekend Read

Journalist’s Resource – Gender, education and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa: Research roundup

LSE Impact blog – Impact Round Up 10th May: Reputational gaps, registered reports, and serendipity in research.

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: Weak net neutrality and stifled startups, and a glimpse of U.S. journalists

PLoS Blogs ‘CIitizenSci – Coop’s Citizen Sci Scoop: Weekly Roundup

Savage Minds – Around the Web Digest: Week of May 4

Speakers of Science – Reads of the Week 9 May 2014

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Record of the Week (Week of 28 April 2014)

Posted on May 5, 2014

ANTHROPOLOGY

Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing – Rhetorical Studies of Science and Technology

Somatosphere – Anesthesia

BIG DATA

Digital Sociology – What Does Data Do?

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology – Big Data and its epistemology

Pasco Phronesis – It Was Sooner Than I Thought – PCAST Releases Big Data Report

Sociological Imagination – Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data [VIDEO]

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Breakthrough Institute (Mathew Nisbet’s The Public Square) – Pathways to Progress on Climate Change

Climate Access – Talking Responsibility for Climate Change: The Call to Mobilize

TED – The Emergent Patterns of climate change [VIDEO]

CLIMATE CHANGE – COMMUNICATION

Talking Climate – To segment or not to segment?

Environmental Communication –

CONSERVATION

Geography Directions – Drones for wildlife: the securitization of conservation?

FRACKING

Council of Canadian Academies – Expert Panel finds monitoring, management, and oversight critical for responsible shale gas development in Canada

IMPACT

KMBeing blog – Collective Impact Of Research Over Isolated Impact Of Research

INTERNET

Ars Technica – State laws that ban municipal Internet will be invalidated, FCC chair says

OPEN ACCESS

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology – Open-access repositories worldwide, 2005–2012: Past growth, current characteristics, and future possibilities

LSE Impact blog – The only way to make inflated journal subscriptions unsustainable: Mandate Green Open Access.

RANDOM

Open Culture – Carl Sagan Writes a Letter to 17-Year-Old Neil deGrasse Tyson (1975)

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

LSE Impact blog – Video abstracts are a low-barrier means for publishers to extend the shelf life of research

SCIENCE

Campaign for Science & Engineering (CaSE) – New evidence: science investment boosts growt

Guardian’s Political Science blog – What has science got in common with opera? Oil

Making Science Public blog – Doing science: Some reflections on methods

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Canadian Science Writer’s Association – Can you truly write about science if you don’t comment back to commenters?

Journal of Geography in Higher Education – Using role-play for expert science communication with professional stakeholders in flood risk management

Speakers of Science – Science Communication Communication

SCIENCE EDUCATION

Cultural Studies of Science Education – Debate on global warming as a socio-scientific issue: science teaching towards political literacy

Science & Education –

SCIENCE POLICY / SCIENCE and POLICY

British Ecological Society blog – Decoding EU science policy

Cultural Cognition Project blog – Science and public policy: Who distrusts whom about what?

Pasco Phronesis – Princeton Scientist Wants To Keep Holt Seat In The Family

SOCIAL MEDIA

Ars Technica – Facebook grows up, moves to protect user privacy and stabilize code

UCL Social Networking Sites & Social Science Research Project blog – No Make up Selfie

Culture Digitally – A networked selfie: Storytelling of the self in the age of digital reproduction

VACCINATION

Social Science & Medicine – Attitudes to vaccination: A critical review

VISUALIZATION

Harvard Business Review blog network – Visualizing Zero: How to Show Something with Nothing

OTHER ROUND UPS

Bubble Chamber – The Weekly Roundup

Don’t Get Caught (Communications blog) – The Weekend Read

Ed Yong’s Not Exactly Rocket Science – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (3 May 2014)

Journalist’s Resource – What’s new in digital and social media research, April 2014: Facebook rumor cascades, online comments, collaborative news clips, more

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: The FCC defends its plan, and Facebook’s (sort of) privacy concession

Savage Minds – Around the Web Digest: Week of April 27

Somatosphere – Web Roundup: The Body and Big Data

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Posted on April 27, 2014 Updated on April 28, 2014

ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology in Practice – Catfishing: The Truth About Deception Online

Medical Anthropology – Special Issue: THE POLITICS AND ANTI-POLITICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES CONTROL

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Atlantic – What Are the Economic Consequences of Climate Change?

The Breakthrough Institute (Mathew Nisbet’s ‘The Public Square’) – Mixing Diet Advice and Climate Advocacy? Projecting Personal Values Can Backfire

Climate Central – Carbon Capture Faces Hurdles of Will, Not Technology

The Cultural Cognition Project blog – What you “believe” about climate change doesn’t reflect what you know; it expresses *who you are*

Journalist’s Resource – How to mitigate climate change: Key facts from the U.N.’s 2014 report

Grist – “Climate change war” is not a metaphor

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media – Data Journalism: Do the Numbers Add Up to Climate Action?

CONSUMPTION

Manchester Policy Blogs: Science & Technology – Towards sustainable consumption: start by reframing the questions

GAMING

Ars Technica – Ars looks back at 25 years of puke-green Game Boy memories

GEOGRAPHY

LSE Impact blog – Geographies of knowledge: practical ways to boost the visibility of research undertaken and published in the South.

ENERGY

The Bubble Chamber – Infographic: Americans use more energy in 2013 than in 2012

The Breakthrough Institute – Cheap Nuclear: UC Berkeley’s Per Peterson Pursues Radical New Design with Off-the-Shelf Technologies

FRACKING

Climate Central – Fracking Company Considers Revealing Secret Chemicals

New York Times Dot Earth blog – A Deeper Look at a Study Finding High Leak Rates From Gas Drilling

HEALTH CARE

New York Times – House Calls Are Making a Comeback

HIGHER EDUCATION

Sociological Images – What do Professors do all day?

INFOGRAPHICS

Harvard Business Review blog network – What Makes the Best Infographics So Convincing

OPEN ACCESS

Reciprocal Space – Open Access — yes you can

Savage Minds – A continuum of peer review

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING

The Scholarly Kitchen – Left Behind—Will Proposed Rules in Scholarly Publishing Leave Behind a Population of Researchers?

Ars Technica – Publishing stings find predatory journals, shoddy peer review

SCIENCE

Slate – Cuts and Shutdowns Are Hurting Science
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2014/04/budget_cuts_and_government_shutdown_how_did_science_suffer.html

SCIENCE – COMMUNICATION

Canadian Science Writers’ Association – OpenSciLogs: The Evolution of Popular Science, Maybe

Medical Museion – Pregnancy science communication

SCIENCE – POLICY

Refractive Index – Democratising Scientific Advice

SCIENCE – POLITICS

The Guardian’s Political Science blog –

SCIENCE – PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Ars Technica – US public’s acceptance of scientific knowledge erratic

The Breakthrough Institute (Mathew Nisbet’s The public Square) – Shifting the Health Care Debate: Insights from Science Policy Controversies to Inform Public Engagement

Making Science Public blog – On being a Science Public

SOCIAL MEDIA

The Atlantic – How We Grieve on Social Media

Journal of Geography in Higher Education – Blogging geographies [AHEAD OF PRINT]

Savage Minds – Real cash feeds Facebook’s monopoly over your private life

Speakers of Science blog – Tweets from the Ivory Tower

OTHER ROUND UPS

The Bubble Chamber – Weekly Roundup

Don’t Get Caught (Communications blog) – The Weekend Read

LSE Impact Blog – Impact Round-Up 26th April: The cost of journal subscriptions, writing for impact, and the Journal Openness Index.

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: Net neutrality under threat, and Aereo and the future of free TV

Not Exactly Rocket Science – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (26 April 2014)

Savage Minds – Around the Web Digest: Week of April 20

Somatosphere – In the Journals, April 2014 – Part I, Part II

Speakers of Science blog – Reads of the Week 25 April 2014 – Visual Storytelling, Beautiful Science Writing and More!

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