The harvest of interesting internet offerings of last month: Social media strike again: an invitation to a birthday party of a 16-year old girl, accidentally(?) made public on Facebook, draws thousands to…
Category: Science
Social Networks switches to single blind peer review
I just got the following message from Elsevier: I would like to inform you that the Editors of Social Network have decided to change the current reviewing policy from ‘Double Blind’ (…
A beautiful swarm
A fantastic video of an unusually large swarm of about 60,000 starlings, spotted this week over Utrecht, the Netherlands. Watching the swarm move around is almost hypnotizing . Notice the falcon flying…
On reporting uncertainty
An interesting piece in Nature about how scientists and the media should talk about uncertainty in reporting to the general public, in the context of the global warming “debate.” Also interesting is…