Reluctant academic bloggers

For her first post to the new University of Alberta law blog, Barbara Billingsley expresses skepticism about academic blogging. I’d like to change her mind.
Here’s her worry:
I have concerns about the notion that blogging will soon become the choice method of academic communication, or, worse yet, the notion that blogging ought to replace traditional forms [...]

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Finding stuff in open access repositories

In an earlier post, I said that centralized, national repositories like PubMed Central perform the important service of making scholarship easier to find. I neglected to mention and recommend two resources that allow researchers to search sets of open access repositories. Both of these use the Google Custom Search Engine, which limits the scope of [...]

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Footnotes and open access

Henry at Crooked Timber has a post called The Political Economy of Bibliographies in which he asks the sensible question: why do social science publications have different house styles for citations?
It’s a good question, but I’m going to focus on something else he says, because it gives me the opportunity to do something unusual – [...]

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Graduate studies in neuroethics and neurolaw

Where’s a researcher to go if they are interested in neuroethics, neurolaw and moral cognition? Follow the publications, of course.
I’ve assembled a quick list, in no particular order. So far, it has heavy emphasis on the places where empirical research is being conducted.
In the USA:

Neuroethics Group, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (cleverly squatting on Neurodating.com [...]

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Pet peeve: “Quotes in headlines bad, blogger says”

With a quick apology for the very oblique pun in the title of the post, here’s the offending headline. It comes from the Associated Press, and I think it represents a pernicious evil in contemporary journalism… the ‘paraphrase – source’ headline format.
Chimps Deserve Human Rights, Group Says
Three things are wrong with this:

The headline is inaccurate. [...]

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