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Future blog themes?
Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 2:37 pm CDT
Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 2:37 pm CDT
It looks like "what I wish I knew before..." is the winner by a hair. Not to be the problem child or anything, but it seems a little redundant seeing as how the grad school advice carnival was just a couple of weeks ago, and there's also been a bunch of "new faculty" advice going around lately as well. I don't see a ton of genuinely new content coming out of something like this one if the "..." is meant to be some variation of "I became a scientist."
I like the interviewing-each-other idea, especially TL's idea of using famous interview questions (I think this is what you mean, right?). It's interesting to see how different people answer the same questions.
I like the interviewing-each-other idea, especially TL's idea of using famous interview questions (I think this is what you mean, right?). It's interesting to see how different people answer the same questions.
Future blog themes?
Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 2:46 pm CDT
Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 2:46 pm CDT
You mean like we each answer the same 10 questions and post our responses. That would be cool. I agree that it feels like showing up to a party at 3am right after it peaked if we did the "I wish I knew thing" right after that whole carnival stuff.
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 7:31 pm CDT
Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 7:31 pm CDT
What are these famous interview questions people are talking about? Or are we just going to pick a generic set of 10 questions. (Let me say, I am entirely on board with the interview idea. A meme of this went around the sciblogosphere a few years ago and was pretty cool.)
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Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 8:54 pm CDT
Wed, Sep 01, 2010, 8:54 pm CDT
I like the interview idea too. I am in the middle of closing on a new house and moving, so I have been absent, but I definitely want to jump onto any theme/carnival thing everyone is doing.
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 5:51 am CDT
Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 5:51 am CDT
I thought the whole point of having a poll was to write on something the readers would like to read about... the interview idea is interesting but we can't hold polls and then say, "oh, just kidding, you voted wrong."
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 7:03 am CDT
Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 7:03 am CDT
I like the idea of the interviews, but it seems like a lot to put up at once. It seems it may be better suited for a round robin sort of thing, where we could have a post each week until we get through everyone.
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 7:10 am CDT
Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 7:10 am CDT
Yeah, Brian's right - if we had a poll, and folks asked to hear about "what I wish I knew...", then we're a little obligated to write about it or else run the risk of looking like a bunch of dicks.
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 7:56 am CDT
Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 7:56 am CDT
I think we can make the chosen theme suitably broad. A few ideas have been thrown out in the thread about the Sept. 7 blog theme.
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 10:39 am CDT
Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 10:39 am CDT
Here's a theme for you:
Most interesting bit of scientific spam/scam you've been emailed.
I think I just got ping'd with one myself. Invited over to China to give a talk! Beat that!
Most interesting bit of scientific spam/scam you've been emailed.
I think I just got ping'd with one myself. Invited over to China to give a talk! Beat that!
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 11:35 am CDT
Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 11:35 am CDT
TJ - I got invited to speak at a fake conference in Singapore!!
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 11:54 am CDT
Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 11:54 am CDT
TJ - I got invited to speak at a fake conference in Singapore!!
Oh, nice! Singapore would be cool. Not too thrilled with my scam-vite to Dalian, China. They just had a huge oil spill there ... not sure the tourism-draw will be as strong for me now.
Oh, nice! Singapore would be cool. Not too thrilled with my scam-vite to Dalian, China. They just had a huge oil spill there ... not sure the tourism-draw will be as strong for me now.
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Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 3:20 pm CDT
Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 3:20 pm CDT
At least none of you got invited to any conferences in people's pants. Blog about breastfeeding JUST ONE TIME and you will get some lovely spam! VOMIT!
Anyhoo.. Okay so the theme of the month is: "What I wish I knew before.... I knew what I know now" By Sept. 7. GOT IT!
Anyhoo.. Okay so the theme of the month is: "What I wish I knew before.... I knew what I know now" By Sept. 7. GOT IT!
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Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 12:26 pm CDT
Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 12:26 pm CDT
So I got 4 days to come up with 1500 words on "What I wish I knew before.... I knew what I know now"?
I thought we weren't doing this one because of the overlap with the grad school carnival?
No probs though, I have a blog post ready to write on this topic anyway...
I thought we weren't doing this one because of the overlap with the grad school carnival?
No probs though, I have a blog post ready to write on this topic anyway...
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Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 7:22 pm CDT
Fri, Sep 03, 2010, 7:22 pm CDT
No probs though, I have a blog post ready to write on this topic anyway...
Translation: I'll pull something from my old blogs archives. ;)
Translation: I'll pull something from my old blogs archives. ;)
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