October 3, 2011

Hashtag Monday at #SciAmBlogs: #DonorsChoose, #Scio12, #OpenLab, #IgNobels, #Arseniclife and more...

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Lots of updates and news today.

After sending out yet another reminder for bloggers to add their submissions we closed #openlab for submissions at 9am this morning, so now you can see the entire list of 721 entries here: Open Laboratory 2011 – the complete list of all submitted entries

We have a new website for the upcoming ScienceOnline2012 conference, with lots of updates, so you can catch up in What is: ScienceOnline2012.

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As it is Monday, there is a new Image of the Week for you to check out.

October is the DonorsChoose month, when blog readers help fund science projects in classrooms. There is also a lot of friendly rivalry between various blogging groups and networks, so I hope you will support our network. Make sure you read these posts (four so far - more bloggers will post soon), and help as much as you can:

- Janet D. Stemwedel - Introducing DonorsChoose Science Bloggers for Students 2011 (with a wag of the finger for Stephen Colbert).

- DNLee - Science Bloggers for Students – Supporting public school science programs

- Christie Wilcox - Students need your help!

- Jennifer Frazer - Amoebas for a Better Science Tomorrow

And the rest of the network was not idle either - check it out:

- Scicurious - IgNobel Prize WINNER: A kiss is just a kiss, but is a sigh ever just a sigh?andIgNobel Prize WINNER: If you yawn, your pet tortoise don’t careandIgNobel Prize WINNER: The power of effective procrastination.andIgNobel prize WINNER: You might have a better time saving your spare change if you REALLY need to pee.andIgNobel Prize WINNER: Solving all your problems…with tanksandIgNobel Prize WINNER: Public Safety is even safer when you can’t see

- Bora Zivkovic - BIO101 – What Creatures Do: Animal Behaviorand#Arseniclife link collectionandBest of September at A Blog Around The Clock

- Jason G. Goldman - Get Your Science On in LA, October 2011: Space, Seeing, Skloot, Dinos, Fossil Hunting, and more!andSunday Photoblogging: Lens Flare Over Malibu

- Krystal D'Costa - Tracing the Trickle-down in Roman RecyclingandFour Stone Hearth 119: Refiring the Hearth

- Katrina Edwards - North Pond: Got CORK? Yes and noandNorth Pond: CORKs take II

- Jennifer Frazer - 800,000 Manmade Plant Fossils (and counting)

- S.E. Gould - Sequencing the Impossible – working with ‘unculturable’ bacteria

- Christie Wilcox - Observations: Reverse Bestiality

- Davide Castelvecchi - Superluminal Neutrinos Would Wimp Out En Route

- Jesse Bering - Half Dead: Men and the “Mid-Life Crisis”

- Darren Naish - Three remarkable hummingbird discoveries

- Katherine Harmon - Nearly 400 Accidents with Dangerous Pathogens and Bio-Toxins Reported in U.S. Labs over Seven Years

- David Wogan - Urbanized – a documentary about urban design by Gary Hustwit

- Amanda Cuéllar, with Colin Beal - Guest Post: Food for thought – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

- Layla Eplett - Food Fights: Reconsidering Famine and War in the Horn of Africa

- John Horgan - Drone Assassinations Hurt the U.S. More Than They Help Us

- Christina Agapakis - Bloggingheads: Invasion of the Synthetic Bacteria

- Kalliopi Monoyios - Need Proof That We’re Visual Beings?

- Carin Bondar - A ground-breaking kind of SCIENCE FILM contest – every campus should have one

- Joanne Manaster - Monday Music Video

- Alex Wild - Give yourself an extra appendage with Manfrotto’s Magic Arm

- James Byrne - MolBio Carnival #15!

- David Bressan - Accretionary Wedge #38: Back to Shool for Applied Geology

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