Science Tweeters to follow?

Yesterday I mentioned a few science tweeters.  Today I'll ask you for your favorites on science.  Any science.

Old links still of interest

I'm something of a pack rat -- keeping things eternally, or close to it.  I still have, for instance, almost every program I wrote in college, plus almost everything ever since.  I also have preserved links of interest from my blog reading back to ... well, not quite that long.  Part of my getting back up to speed is to look through my old noted links of interest, and I'll share them out.  I'm more or less arbitrarily diving them in to links of interest, and links to follow up.  Everything actually fits in both categories, but a bit of a matter of emphasis between them.  

The items to follow up are old enough that you and I can do some searching to see how well they've held up over time.  The papers are interesting and good, but many interesting and good papers turn out not to stand up without important additions or modifications over the next few years.  These links are at least 3, and some over 4, years old, so there's been some time to see the evolution of thinking the the fields.  Some papers' conclusions get stronger over time, some weaker.  Pick a topic you're interested in and see what happened through time.

I'm also noting twitter identities for the blogs/bloggers I link to.  I'll post a separate note tomorrow asking for your suggestions.

 
Items of interest

Open Source Climate Education
TB is also on twitter at  ‏ @thingsbreak

FAQ on climate models -- part 1
FAQ on climate models -- part 2
@RealClimate

Science is something people do

computing before electronic computers

A Google Earth Explosion! -- Geology layers for Google Earth
Kim is on twitter at @stressrelated

 Dan Moutal: Why I accept the scientific consensus on global warming, and what would change my mind
-- I also have a number of comments there.
Dan is on twitter at @irregclimate and @scruffydan

Naomi Oreskes video: American Denial of Global Warming
‏ @TenneyNaumer

Items to follow up to see how well they've held up over time:

Sea Level may rise 1 meter by 2100
21 Meter sea level rise 400,000 years ago
West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level last 5 million years

Reconstructing and estimating sea level 200 to 2100 AD
You can also follow Aslak on twitter at @AGrinsted

New studies disprove cosmic ray driver for climate
Post 1850 global temperature increase not driven by sun
IPY sea ice model -- Arctic Ice probably will not recover
Coastal Erosion doubles in parts of Alaska

Looking back at blogs 1

Some of these might still be active, at least the author might be.  Please let me know the new locations if I don't have one.  If not, well, they still wrote some articles worth consideration.


Trees for the Forest

• Looking at GHCN temperatures

Rust Never Sleeps

Old Man in a Cave

mutantClimate

Rationally Thinking Out Loud (new location) http://rationallythinkingoutloud.wordpress.com/ -- old location

Respectful Insolence -- The blog certainly has continued, this is the link to the new feed location.  But some good older articles on science, in particular medicine, vs. nonscience.

• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/02/08/why-am-i-not-surprised-it-looks-as-thoug/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/06/11/the-ap-shoots-and-scores-again/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/11/18/really-rethinking-breast-cancer-screenin/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/12/03/mammography-and-the-risk-of-breast-cance/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/03/30/best-sign-ever/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/08/06/basic-science-an-obstacle-to-students-wh/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/08/19/another-worthless-acupuncture-study-misi/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/01/06/piltdown-medicine-andrew-wakefields-scie/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/03/11/for-the-anti-vaccinationists-out-there-t/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/05/23/dr-andrew-weil-versus-evidence-based-med/
• http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/11/05/pox-packages-child-abuse-and-the-violati/

The Questionable Authority Old location: http://scienceblogs.com/authority/, New location: The Questionable Authority

• http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2009/02/02/google-the-oceans-and-mars/
• http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2009/02/07/scientific-misconduct-and-the/
• http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2009/03/03/holds-on-noaa-administrator-sc/
• http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2009/05/16/an-open-letter-for-the-parents/

The Middle Way (low volume, more philosophical, blog, by a friend)

• Why won't they listen?

Vickie's Prostitution Blog (my wife)

• http://vickiesprostitutionblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-much-money-do-prostitutes-make-part.html
• http://vickiesprostitutionblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-much-money-do-prostitutes-make-part_12.html
• http://vickiesprostitutionblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/edgar-allan-poe-call-for-halloween.html
• http://vickiesprostitutionblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-and-some-updates.html
• http://vickiesprostitutionblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/dear-h.html
• http://vickiesprostitutionblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-do-women-prostitute-part-iii.html
• http://vickiesprostitutionblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/grieving-for-lilian.html
• http://vickiesprostitutionblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/yana-women-are-great-art.html

Endogenous Retroviruses and a Different Writing Style

One of the blogs I keep an eye on is erv, Endogenous RetroViruses, by Abbie Smith.  Not the usual language you'll see here (some over PG-13), and certainly different style (Abbie doesn't believe in the ', for instance).  But for some discussion of biology, particular parts involving viruses and especially endogenous retroviruses (surprise), it's a good place to go.

I'll note that back when I was thinking about blogging, Abbie was one of the people who gave me some ideas on approach.

Some articles to take a look at for a sample of the blog:

What is normal, and how it matters in examining bees
Open Access Publishing -- and some limits
How immunization works
Antivaccinationism and death by measles
AIDS and CD4+ T-cells
Blood groups and viruses
Antibodies and dengue
Pursuing science and results
Zinc and the common cold
The Timetree of life
Scientists being slandered
Scientists and media

Odds and Ends -- July 2011

A number of interesting items that are a little more time-related than I normally talk about.

Some sociology for amusement:
Nation's Climatologists Exhibiting Strange Behavior h/t Michael Tobis.

Regarding some of Roy Spencer's latest Well, give me more than 30 parameters, and I can fit a trans-dimensional lizard-goat ... by Barry Bickmore. I've downloaded the other recent paper and will take it up as my time and interest permits. A couple people have already asked about this, so read Barry's notes in the mean time.

Some fun science, and a reminder to beware of gifts bearing Greeks:
Phil Plait on Earth's first Trojan Asteroid
... and the NASA press release on it.

Trojan asteroids do not, it turns out, contain Greeks. Apparently that is limited to a horse in the Iliad. What happens is that if you have two bodies that are very much more massive than a third, like, say, the Sun and Earth compared to an asteroid, you can park an asteroid on the earth's orbit, but 60 degrees ahead or behind. And it will pretty much stay there. The 60 degrees ahead or behind are called the 'Trojan points'. We've long known of bunches of Trojan asteroids for Jupiter. As Phil's title suggests, this is the first time we've found one for the earth.

That's a bit about the doing of science: There was every reason to believe that the Earth had trojan asteroids. It would actually have been quite remarkable if we didn't -- gravity is supposed to work the same way for us as for Jupiter (allowing for the fact that we're so much less massive). Still, we're happier to see what we expected.

The Way Things Break

The Way Things Break is the blog of thingsbreak, who comments here as well.  As you'd expect, content isn't a perfect overlap of mine, which is one reason to suggest it.  The articles I mention below will lean to climate, but take your own look.  Especially, check out the Books of Interest and Open Source Climate Science Education.

Cosmic Rays 1
Reliable sources and ocean acidification
Geoengineering and ocean acidification
(2009) Arctic summer sea ice
Lonnie Thompson viceo
Cosmic rays and climate 2a
Cosmic rays and climate 2b
Reducing greenhouse emissions through household actions
Who is really alarming?
Tropical cyclones and consensus
Climate communication and public health
What was really predicted about ocean circulation?
Media vs. scientific description of climate report   -- See also the comments, especially John Fleck's.

Evolving Thoughts

For a more philosophical take on science, and leaning to biology rather than climate for examples, you should take a look at John Wilkins' Evolving Thoughts.  John's a philosopher of science.  We've known each other electronically for about 20 years.

Some posts which struck me at the time to save for later:
Sausages and science (the practice of science isn't as pretty as I tend to paint)
It was 150 years ago tomorrow on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwn's Origin.
Lazy Manager Theory (ok, aimed a bit older than I usually try, but having encountered managers, and now being one, sort of, I like this.)
Science eats its seed corn (I blog about the ideals of science; the realities are seldom as nice.)
Jorge Cham is following me (PhDcomics.com) Looks pretty much like my time line, though 350 messages in my in-box says 'weekend' more than 'vacation'.
Apes and evolution in the news
Linnaeus: The founder of databases
A code of conduct for effective rational discussion
Plagiarism, citations, and fact checking
John's own list of his better posts in 2009

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New blogs on roll

In several cases, I'm surprised that they're not already on the blogroll, my apologies folks.

Newly-added are:
Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait)
Old man in a cave (Fergus Brown)
Greenfyre's
Hot Topic -- Global Warming and the Future of New Zealand
Die Klimakrise (in German / auf Deutsch)
Rust Never Sleeps
Stoat (William Connolley)

Farther afield, I'll mention
erv
Greg Laden's Blog

Plus, it'd be a help if someone could explain how to set up Digg links easily, and preferably, automatically. According to sitemeter, a fair number of folks are finding this blog by that route. I'd as soon make it easier. Similarly reddit. Explanations of technorati also welcome.

New Scienceblog

Regular commenter Kim (Hannula), whose blog Shearsensibility I've been reading and commenting at for a while has been assimilated by the Borg (scienceblogs) at
http://scienceblogs.com/stressrelated/. I'm linking this to her post inviting ideas on what skills students need in learning science (etc.) I expect you all have a fair number of ideas on that topic, so join in.

More blogs

I read quite a few more blogs than are on the blogroll. As I mentioned in the original blogroll note, these are ones that link over here. (And might be missing some. Please let me know if I am.)

A recent addition is my daughter's, http://evenmoregrumbinescience.blogspot.com/ It'd be good to see more comments on her post about teaching physics to women (see 'No Silver Bullet', or 'Teaching Women Science'). Last I looked, it's only the two of us. And since I was the one who taught her how to build rockets, her responses aren't exactly surprises.

More from my reader:
Climate

• Climate Change: The Next Generation
• ClimateSpin
• NASA: JPL
• Real Climate
• William Connolley: Stoat
  
• Coby Beck: A Few Things Ill-Considered
  

Other, mostly biology:

• Phil Plait: Bad Astronomy
• Chris Nedin: Ediacaran
• ERV
• John Wilkins: Evolving Thoughts
• Mark Chu-Carroll: Good Math, Bad Math
• Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum: The Intersection
• Two Minds
• PZ Myers: Pharyngula
• Troy Britain: Playing Chess with Pigeons
• Mike Dunford: The Questionable Authority
• Orac: Respectful Insolence

Due reminder: These other blogs, and my comments on them, may not be as mild-mannered as here.

1970s Mythology

One of the more popular myths repeated by those who don't want to deal with the science on climate is that 'in the 70s they were calling for an imminent ice age' and such like nonsense, where 'they' is supposedly the scientists in climate. This has long been known to be false to anyone who paid attention to the scientific publications from the time, or even to William Connolley's efforts in documenting what was actually in the literature over the last several years. Now, William and two other authors (he's actually the second author on the paper) have put that documentation into high profile peer-reviewed literature -- the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. For the briefer version, see William's comments over at Stoat and web links therein. That page also includes a link to the full paper in .pdf format.

Blogrolling

Some sites whose interests are close enough to mine that they are linking here. My apologies to the folks whose language I was guessing at if I guessed wrong. Please, someone who knows any of those languages, have a look and let me know the correct language. Also, if I'm missing places, please do send a comment.

atmoz.org/blog Climate and Weather Explained -- See especially the oblate spheroid edition of the simplest climate model
www.emretsson.net/ (Swedish)
scienceblogs.com/clock/ A Blog Around the Clock
tamino.wordpress.com/ Open Mind
koillinen.wordpress.com/ (Finnish?)
stigmikalsen.wordpress.com/(Norwegian?)
thingsbreak.wordpress.com/ The Way Things Break
bravenewclimate.com/
chriscolose.wordpress.com/ Climate Change
www.scruffydan.com/blog/
rationallythinkingoutloud.wordpress.com/
simondonner.blogspot.com/ Maribo
rabett.blogspot.com/ Rabett Run
scienceblogs.com/deltoid/ Deltoid

[Update 2 Sept 2008]: See also
http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/
http://jules-klimaat.blogspot.com/