Author Archives: Chris Rowan

RSS @ Sciencedirect and GSA

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Chris Rowan

It turns out that Sciencedirect do have subdiscipline RSS feeds – they’re just a little hidden away.
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Categories: geology, links, publication

Back from the (almost) dead

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Chris Rowan

The silence that fell on this blog last week was unplanned; I was struck down by a rather evil bout of flu, which kept me bid-ridden for much of last week. Given that at certain delirious points I was half … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery

ScienceOnline Day 2: generalised ramblings

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Chris Rowan

Sessions attended: Nature blogging: a lot of discussion time was spent on what exactly a “nature blog” was, with a clear division between those who viewed nature blogging as a broad church, with the more science-oriented blogs as a subset … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, conferences

ScienceOnline Day 1: generalised ramblings

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Chris Rowan

Since I’ve yet to develop the sort of mind that can blog the last sentence whilst listening to the next one, I’ve mainly kept the laptop closed and just listened and/or pontificated in most of today’s sessions. But I thought … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, conferences, general science, public science

Liveblogging from ScienceOnline…

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Chris Rowan

The ‘Adventures in Blogging’ session has taken a rather surreal turn – we’re in the dark, being told to imagine we’re liveblogging from a submarine. Complete with shaken chairs, attacks from cuddly angler fish, and… sea shanties. I haven’t been … Continue reading →