Hi Everyone, Sorry I’ve been MIA lately. Second semester of my second year is qualifying exam season and I’m in the thick of preparing my prospectus proposal and studying up for my exams. In the beginning of January though I took a visit out to San Francisco to visit a friend and I thought, in … More Photos from San Francisco
Sorry this post is a long time in coming. My dissertation caught up with me and I’ve been pounding away at that for the last two weeks. Now, more on social media and science! So far I’ve tried to show that social networks are big, and are increasingly the medium that people are using to … More Harnessing Social Media For Science: Part 3: Deputization and Donation
My more candid readers have pointed out that I promised to convince you that scientists should be on social networks and my first post in this series managed only to demonstrate that social networks are big. I didn’t want to belabor the point but hopefully I also partially convinced you that people are making big … More Harnessing Social Media For Science: Part 2: Collaboration and Education
I want to elaborate on my ideas for social media and science over the next several days in four parts. My goal is to both clarify the arguments in my mind and to present a more in-depth resource for those interested in learning more than my poorly-captioned slideshows can tell. I hope these musings will … More Harnessing Social Media For Science: Part 1: The Setup
Hi All, I heard from some that the slides weren’t working *unless* you were on Safari. I’m not sure exactly why but regardless, here’s a copy of the slideshow in PDF form. There won’t be any pretty transitions but the content is all there. For the rest of the week I’ll be posting some prose … More Slides in PDF form
On Friday, I led a workshop at the Student Conference on Conservation Science at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City outlining some of the ways Scientists can tap into social networks. I’ll elaborate on these ideas in the coming days but I wanted to post my slides for reference. I had … More Slides: Harnessing Social Media for Science
We’re well into Fall semester now and I’m helping to lead a class called Natural Science Research Methods. The goal of the class is to help new Masters students in the School of Forestry propose and plan their two-year thesis project. It’s exciting hearing about all of the cool research ideas these students are wrestling with. This … More How to write a bad research proposal
The olympics just ended in London and without cable at home I was mostly crawling around news sites online to get my olympics fix. I was excited to find that beyond the typical and very excellent sports photography inundating papers and blogs, there were a few more artistic styles being popularized by photographers. One of … More Tilt-shift Photography
Hi Everyone! It’s been a while since my last post but I’ve been busy sorting through notes, making plans and getting back into the swing of things in New Haven. I’m hoping to put up some last pictures and videos from the Europe trip over the next week or so. For the first installment head … More Europe Photos Are Up!
Well, my flights were nice and smooth and now I’m safe back in the US. I’m actually traveling again. I arrived home in New Haven at about 12:30 am local time (feeling like 7:30 am to me) and after a few hours of sleep, now I’m on a bus headed to Boston to celebrate the … More Safe, back in the USA
Colin Donihue 