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Jon Agar blogs his new book
Science in the Twentieth Century – and Beyond is the title of Jon Agar’s upcoming book. The concluding parts is a survey of science today, the writing of which Agar blogs at STS Observatory. For example, he’s covered science blogging … Continue reading
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Tagged Big picture, history of science, Jon Agar, science blogging
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Using Zotero, pt 7.
Upgrading to the latest versions of Zotero and Word plugin broke Word integration. The reason: I use a non-English version of Word and the installer seems to think that I’m on an English version. (Duh, all that technological imperialism …) … Continue reading
Doing science was like blogging
In the future, doing science will be like blogging, according to a (slightly ironical) take on citizen science by Bruce Sterling (my favourite, by the way, in this genre at the moment is Galaxy Zoo). Doing science was like blogging. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Sterling, citizen science, history of science, Linnaeus, Staffan Müller-Wille
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Using Zotero, pt 6.
For some time now, I’ve been using Zotero 1 because I had difficulties with Microsoft Word 2008 crashing using Zotero 1.5 and the alpha version of the Word plugin. Now, trying out the latest versions of the Word plugin and … Continue reading
BSHS conference in July
I’m going to the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Science in Leicester 2-5 July (was a bit lucky with the dates for the conference, since I have a ticket to see Depeche Mode in Copenhagen … Continue reading
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Tagged all sky astronomy, Knut Lundmark, Milky way, visual culture
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Posters in astronomy
There are types of artefacts from various epochs that each are sites worthy of exploration by the historian interested in the visual culture of astronomy; CCD shots by amateur astronomers of today, 14 inch glass plates exposed in 1950′s 1 … Continue reading
Galaxy Zoo 2
Classifying galaxies by morphology has normally been done by small teams of astronomers or individual astronomers, like Peter Nilson spending years classifying objects on the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey producing the Uppsala General Catalogue. Galaxyzoo is another way to do … Continue reading
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Tagged amateur science, collaboration, galaxies, galaxy zoo, public engagement with science
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Scientific mashups
Perhaps it is easy to overtheorize a phenomenon such as mashups, making too much out of it, overstretching its use as metaphor. For one thing, while musical mashups sometimes can be “official” – such as when Kylie Minogue performed a … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonie Pannekoek, astronomical datasets, IRAS, Joy Division, Knut Lundmark, mashups, Missy Elliott, Palomar Sky Survey
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Using Zotero, pt 5.
Just a small note, this time, on customizing Zotero’s Word plugin: I have wanted keyboard shortcuts to Zotero, for example for insert note, instead of clicking on a button. Found this on the Zotero forum: # 1 is indeed a … Continue reading
Using Zotero, pt 4.
Now, I’ve taken a step back from Zotero Synch Preview 1.5 used in connection with Word 2008 (on Mac) to 1.0.9 used in connection with Word 2004. The reason is the instability (it is, after all, an alpha version) of … Continue reading