Sunday, July 20, 2008

About Science Blogs

In case you are a bit unsure what the purpose - for the bloggers, for other scientists, and for the public - of posts like these here at dechronization are all about - or maybe you aren't even quite sure what a blog is, there's a little article in the latest Trends in Ecology and Evolution by John Wilkins about scientific blogs...complete with nifty diagram of how these beasts work.

3 comments:

Glor said...

This graphic is freaking hilarious.

Dan Warren said...

The purpose is simple: I rely on you people to read papers so that I don't have to.

Anonymous said...

Hello

Find “Pierre Trémaux”

Trémaux on species: A theory of allopatric speciation (and punctuated equilibrium) before Wagner

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003806/