I've always loved Science Friday--Ira Flatow's calming tones and fascinating guests used to help get me through Friday afternoon fruit fly ovary dissections in grad school--and I admire their ambitions, so I consider it a real honour to be asked to blog with them.
You can probably tell from my patchy posting here that Data Not Shown has been something of an experiment. I wasn't sure when I started it how many posts I'd end up wanting to write that weren't appropriate for The Beagle Project Blog, and I think the answer has turned out to be a resounding "not many".
So. I'm closing up shop here at Data Not Shown and re-inventing myself a little bit for the new Science Friday blog. I think part of the reason I didn't get really jazzed about Data Not Shown is that it didn't have a coherent and succinct theme. Thus my aims for the new blog are:
- to post regularly if not as often as I do on the Beagle Project Blog, say, once a week to start.
- to write themed series' of posts, for example a weekly biology and/or evolution glossary entry, a series of interviews with scientists I admire, or maybe even a series of video podcasts from the lab and other parts of the Natural History Museum.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to seeing you over at SciFri blogs!
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I actually liked Data Not Shown because of the story you told with it in your first post. A sort of non-specific name as such lets you have more flexibility with what you post.
Thanks, KevZ, that does make sense. The same argument could be made for "in vivo" and to a lesser (or greater?) extent "in situ". "Class of 1859" is definitely more restrictive - I don't just want to blog about evolution and/or Darwin ... though someone did once say that "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution". Anyhoo, it looks like the other voters agree with you.
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