Author Archive
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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Several people have requested the powerpoint presentations of Maz&Noel's talk and my talk as well. So, for their convenience and yours if you weren't able to attend, here are the talks we delivered in the chemical education symposium titled Using Social Networking Tools to Teach Chemistry:
Development of chemical forums, blogs, ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
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C&EN have started their own science blog. In recent years it has been common place for C&EN to blog while at the ACS conference or on a special assignment. A link to the blog is here: http://cenblog.org/
Mitch
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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HotCites - It's What's Hot in the Literature
A recent website I've been developing exploits the collective intelligence of scientists to determine what articles in the literature are attracting the attention of scientists/technicians and the like. The website is HotCites (www.hotcites.com). It parses through new submissions to Nature's Connotea database and ...
Posted in Nature, chem 2.0 | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
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Nature Jobs did a nice piece on Social Networking for scientists recently, I even get two nice mentions in it. The article is titled "The new networking nexus" and can be found here:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nj7181-1024a
Mitch
Posted in Nature, chem 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Friday, February 29th, 2008
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I noticed this little editorial seemed to be getting a lot of bookmarks at connotea, Ten Simple Rules for Graduate Students. It has some apt advice. Although most senior grad students would of learned those lessons the hard way, I would still recommend reading it. It also has links to ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
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As most readers know, I have more than a passing interest in social bookmarking. There are popular social bookmarking websites like Digg and Reddit. But, there are also science social bookmarking websites like Nature's Connotea. Connotea has many advantages over other sites, such as being able to export the papers ...
Posted in Nature, chem 2.0 | 5 Comments »
Friday, February 15th, 2008
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Sad news coming out of Warsaw today. A 27-year old graduate student at Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna (Military University of Technology) suffered severe injuries while performing experiments towards his thesis. He lost both hands and received severe burns on his face. The explosion did not cause a fire. Apparently, his research ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
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I've unfortunately been suckered into representing my boss (Heino Nitsche) for the prospective visits this spring. My boss is unavailable due to teaching, and I will be doing the typical office meet-and-greet for him. So, if anyone wants to chill in his office with the best cheap wine I can ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Although most undergraduates are fretting over acceptance letters1, there has been recent interest in personal statements2,3,4. Below is an outline of what I would consider a typical chemical personal statement should consist of, and with slight modifications, it can be used as a generalized outline for all bright-eyed science undergraduates.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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As most readers have noticed we’ve done a massive revamping of the website since Jan 1st 2008. Site upgrade posts are the most boring, so I’ll do everyone a favor and write it in outline format.
An unfortunate circumstance of the upgrades have been the inability to migrate all comments made ...
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