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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…
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…
#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…
Blogger: Be more twitter friendly
Posted by Greg Laden on December 9, 2012 Dear Blogger, You should have a “tweet this” button on each blog post. It should open a window with the title of your post and a shortened URL to it. Extra stuff on there is OK but not necessary. Here is what the button with the bird on it (indicating twitter) should NOT do: 1)…
How to blog: Text Workflow on an iMac
Posted by Greg Laden on November 29, 2012 If you are thinking about starting a blog, you should first watch this episode of the PBS TV Kids Show, “Arthur” in which Muffy decides to start a blog, and all hell breaks loose. If you spend any time at all on the blogsophere, you will find this episode both familiar and frightening. The point…
Who reads this blog, anyway?
Posted by Greg Laden on September 15, 2012 Who are you? When National Geographic branded Science Blogs, they also deleted our big giant collective Google Analytics Account and gave us each individual Google Analytics accounts. The bad news is that I then lost the ability to analyze use of my blog over the last few years, which was only of marginal value anyway,…
Testing Thunderf00t’s Hypothesis
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2012 Over on Freethoughtblogs, Thunderf00t makes the following assertion about the subject matter addressed by that blog network: The disproportionate amount of attention [is given] to sexism compared to other issues. He does not assert this as a hypothesis, but rather, as a fact. But, Imma turn it back into a hypothesis and assail it with…