The poster feels very crowded. Tons of elements are almost touching each other.

November 26th, 2012 by Ville Miettinen. Is a crowdfunded, crowdsourced reporting project, covering every homicide in the District of Colombia. This claim is so bold as to almost be suspect. More than a hundred people. A database for the dead.

Saturday, January 12, 2013. His, Hers, and Theirs. For many years, I wrote manuals for a living. I figure I have a vested interest in devoting at least a modicum of my time to ensuring the gainful employment of my professional peers. However, I immediately note something missing in the user guide for the Jabsco.

Recent conference attendance inspired me to do a quick typology of networks that were presented in various talks. All were done in R using a few different packages. All were interested in diversity patterns.

The blog has gone a little quiet as I converge on what is hopefully The End of dissertating, which has been taking up an awful lot of time. But a recent post by DrugMonkey. On their perceptions of the hurdles crowdfunding science faces inspired me to write a post. This makes me really, really sad.

A podcast about science, literature, and the arts. Due to technical problems with my recording system, I can not provide a new episode of Critical Wit this week. However, I have stitched together two excerpts of earlier episodes that either you may have not heard, or would appreciate a recap of some of the more interesting parts of the interviews. The first excerpt is from episode 3.

Ecology and conservation of sharks, social media, and science communication. Hello, and welcome to my online CV! Working to restrain a lemon shark in the Everglades prior to measurement and sampling.