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Sunday, 22 May 2016

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Elsevier’s increasing control over scholarly infrastructure, and how funders should fix this 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [2016-05-22 15:43:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (184 visits) info
In a recent blog-post, Kevin Smith tells it like it is: legacy publishers are tightening their grip in an attempt to control scholarly communications. “The same five or six major publishers who dominate the market for scholarly journals are engaged in a race to capture the terms of and platforms for scholarly sharing”, says Smith.

What Science Tells us about Race and Racism 

Gunnars Geo-Blog [2016-03-16 18:37:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (123 visits) info
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sunshine and BlueSkies 

James’ Empty Blog [2016-02-23 22:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info

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In January there was one day of blue skies and sunshine when it did not rain, so on that day we cycled to Kirkby Lonsdale for breakfast (Kirkby Lonsdale is very 21st century - they let you eat breakfast until noon!!!). Stupidly I did not take a camera. In February it has also rained a great deal. For example, on Sunday we did a fell race in the wind and rain and mud. Running is probably one

The Time 19th Century Paleontologists Punched it Out 

Laelaps [2016-01-04 13:00:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (186 visits) info

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Edward Drinker Cope wasn’t exactly the most even-keeled of paleontologists. The great “Bone Wars” that sparked a race to uncover America’s prehistory required the enmity of two fossil fanatics, after all, and Cope certainly proved himself capable of throwing jabs and haymakers in print at his friend-turned-nemesis Othniel Charles Marsh. Even among friends Cope was

Vertebrate Paleontology Technician and Preparator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [2015-07-18 18:53:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (225 visits) info

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Vertebrate Paleontology Technician and Preparator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, HarvardPlease see the following link of the re-advertisement for our position of Vertebrate Paleontology Technician and Preparator within the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. We hope this new posting will further broaden our search and highlight the scientific component and specialized skills of the position. All applications should be submitted via the link below and will be reviewed on a [...]

The Race for Better Batteries 

State of the Planet [2015-06-12 20:21:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (224 visits) info
The worldwide transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way, but to integrate all this variable power into the grid, battery storage is key. Researchers around the world are working on developing better and cheaper

Sunrise patrol 

JOIDES Resolution blogs [2015-05-27 23:37:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (99 visits) info

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Just one full day of drilling time left now before we have to start pulling pipe and packing up to go back to Mumbai.  It's now a race to see we can reach the basement before our time has run out. Although we are nervous for a successful conclusion to our expedition this does not interfere with some of the important routines that we have developed over the past weeks. read

Uber is not a race to the bottom 

Ontario-geofish [2014-11-21 15:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (208 visits) info

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Today, a famous Toronto newspaper columnist tore into Uber, based on the fact that the founder is an obnoxious pirk.  They all are, down there, and we need some of those in Toronto.  I mean, we have Conrad, but he's kind of useless. Now, columnists really are in a race to the bottom, as we see here.  His economic analysis is based on the pre- Industrial Revolution cottage industry.  Taxi

The Cretaceous Tortoise and Hare 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2014-11-17 22:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (130 visits) info

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Once upon a time, in the autumn of 2011, I submitted an artwork requested by one Scott Persons of the University of Alberta via Art Evolved...Three years later, the resulting set of three illustrations -- a race between an Olorotitan and a Tarbosaurus -- was finally published in the press release for a study of hadrosaur locomotion by Dr. Phil Currie and Scott Persons, which I expect a number of our readers are already familiar with, either independently or via the Chasmosaurs Facebook page. [...]

Research Assistant in the Vertebrate Paleontology group at Oklahoma State University 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [2014-06-24 11:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (82 visits) info

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We are hiring again at OSU-CHS in Tulsa! Below please find the advertisement for a Research Assistant in the Vertebrate Paleontology group at Oklahoma State University. We have a dynamic and growing program, and need help to support four research labs with varied (and fascinating) research foci. The Vertebrate Paleontology laboratories in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at OSU\'s Center for Health Sciences seek a Research Assistant to conduct and facilitate academic research in [...]

Everybody and their dog now on the Ontario Sunshine List 

Ontario-geofish [2014-04-01 16:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info

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Article This was always great for us in the old company.  At first it blew the cover on those who were milking phoney overtime, but now it's a race.  Get rid of

At the risk of igniting a spelling war in the middle east... 

Lounge of the Lab Lemming [2013-11-26 21:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
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I give you this: Note that I don't have a horse in this race; I just wanted to arm all sides of the conflict with silly

South Korea Dumps Boeing F-15 Silent Eagle, Restarts Fighter Competition 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-09-25 00:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (97 visits) info
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South Korea’s government bowed to public pressure on Tuesday and voted down a bid by Boeing (BA.N) to supply 60 warplanes, saying it would restart the multi-billion tender process to get a more advanced fighter. Lockheed Martin’s (LMT.N) F-35A, previously considered too expensive, has shot to the front of the line in the race for the contract after the defense ministry singled out

Hey, Science Fiction Writers: You Can Impress More With Reality 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-07-31 22:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (69 visits) info
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A valid N body simulation solution.  Now, your uber advanced race which can do anything can at least do something like this...science has moved on since the 1970s.

Biomechanics of the Evolution of Walking...Fins to Legs 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-07-09 20:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (94 visits) info
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Why did animals with limbs win the race to invade land over those with fins? A new study comparing the forces acting on fins of mudskipper fish and on the forelimbs of tiger salamanders can now be used to analyze early fossils that spanned the water-to-land transition in tetrapod evolution, and further understand their capability to move on land. Research conducted by Sandy Kawano

A Tale of Sea Ice, Algae and the Arctic 

State of the Planet [2013-05-29 22:12:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (87 visits) info
I returned to New York on Monday, but Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists Andy Juhl and Craig Aumack remain working in Barrow, Alaska for another week. They’ll continue to collect data and samples in a race against deteriorating Arctic sea ice conditions as the onset of summer causes the ice to thin and break up. Even

Artificial Photosynthesis Created at Berkeley Lab 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-05-17 17:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
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SEM images of Si (top) and TiO2 (bottom) nanowire electrodes show light being absorbed and generating a photocurrent that can carry out the water-splitting reaction. In the wake of the sobering news that atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at its highest level in at least three million years, an important advance in the race to develop carbon-neutral renewable energy sources has been

Friday fold: Baxter and the boulders 

Mountain Beltway [2013-05-03 12:38:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
Last weekend, after we checked Lily in for her race, I spotted some boulders near the check-in site. The next morning, once the race had started but before we could cheer her on, my field assistant and I went back to the boulders to check them out. My field assistant’s planners had forgotten to pack him a hat – so we improvised with a pair of fleece pants inverted on

Archosaurs Recovered Quickly After Permian Mass Extinction in Anisian/Olenekian Triassic Tanzania 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-04-30 01:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (77 visits) info

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Many scientists have thought that dinosaur predecessors missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during the Earth's largest mass extinction, approximately 252 million years ago. The thinking was based on fossil records from sites in South Africa and southwest Russia. It turns out that scientists may have been looking for the starting line in the

This Week's Geo-Quiz: Geo-Extremes 

About Geology [2013-03-24 13:04:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
If the minerals and the rocks and the continents and all the other geological features were Olympic contestants, which would be the gold medalists? That's the premise of this week's "Who Wants To Be a Geo-Whiz" quiz on geological extremes. This is a race for gold—silver and bronze are for
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