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Seasonality of Spider Infestation Measured By Blog Page Views
Posted by Greg Laden on April 28, 2014 
A while back I wrote a blog post on how to get rid of spiders in your house. I had a number of reasons for writing that post, which are implied in the post itself. I wrote the post some time ago but in July 2012 I upgraded it to have a better SEO factor,…
Weblog Awards Drops Science, Science Denialists Still Game System
Posted by Greg Laden on March 2, 2014 
Remember the bloggies, aka The Weblog Awards? Over the last couple of years, climate science denialists gamed the system to ensure that most of the nominees, and the top “winners,” would be recognized by the Weblog Awards as the top science site. Rumor has it that they cheated to do this, but I don’t know…
Trolls = Sadists?
Posted by Greg Laden on February 12, 2014 
I don’t have time to dissect or expand on this, and I don’t have the original paper, but I thought it worth noting: Trolls just want to have fun Erin E. Buckels, Paul D. Trapnell, Delroy L. Paulhus Abstract In two online studies (total N = 1215), respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of…
Outing A Pseudonymous Blogger
Posted by Greg Laden on February 10, 2014 
A few weeks ago, senior Nature Editor Henry Gee “outed” “Isis the Scientist,” an anonymous pseudonymous blogger. I say “anonymous pseudonymous” because “Isis” is a pseudonym but she was also anonymous in that her true identity was not known. Apparently, Isis’s identity has been known to the Internet since 2012. But whatever. Gee took a…
The News From The Great White North
Posted by Greg Laden on January 25, 2014 
Science Bowl First, I’m very proud to announce that the Wayzata Science Bowl team won in the statewide tournament last night and will be going to Washington DC for the nationals. I mention this because my wife, Amanda, is the coach for the team. This is the only season she’s been their coach, so that’s…
It’s Alive!!!!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on November 20, 2013 
You may resume your enjoyment of Scienceblogs.com. Our new servers are up and running.
Danger, Danger Will Robinson!!! Danger!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on November 19, 2013 
Tonight, November 19th, at the “end of the day” (not clear when that is, probably depends on time zones) Scienceblogs.com will be put in a coma while a server upgrade is implemented. The site will be revived some time tomorrow, November 20th, and after that everything will be fine. NOTHING CAN GO WRONG BECAUSE WE…
Bora Zivkovic: The good, the bad, and the ugly FINAL UPDATE(4)
Posted by Greg Laden on October 16, 2013 
Final Update: From Scientific American: Bora Zivkovic resigns from Scientific American STATEMENT FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN October 18, 2013 Bora Zivkovic resigns from Scientific American Following recent events, Bora Zivkovic has offered his resignation from Scientific American, and Scientific American has decided to accept that resignation. The Scientific American Blog Network is a vibrant group of…
#StandWithDNLee … Internet Melt Down
Posted by Greg Laden on October 12, 2013 
DN Lee is a scientist and science blogger. She was asked to write for one of those annoying re-posting and aggregating sites that we bloggers are often approached by. I’m shocked to find out that this site is actually linked to, business-wise, a reputable site like Scientific American, but that’s another story. Point is, she…
A Comment On Bora’s Comment On Commenting Threads
Posted by Greg Laden on January 28, 2013 I was recently engaged in a blog battle with Anthony Watts over his insufficiently skeptical (in my opinion) treatment of a discredited report of a meteorite of Martian origin bearing the remains of microscopic organisms. As this argument progressed, some dude on Twitter noted that the credibility of a blog post was determined by the…