John Timmer
Science Editor, ars technica
Chief science wrangler for Ars Technica.
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@drjonboyg I'd follow him, but i'm sure he's forgotten his password by now, and would need a new account anyway.
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My coverage of the declining cancer death rate has now seem to have landed me on the medical PR lists.
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Just got done placing my photos from yesterday's trip to Brookhaven into the Ars content management system.
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RT @carlzimmer Austism-vaccine lawsuit against journalist Amy Wallace dismissed. http://is.gd/aba0m h/t @chr1sa Good news.
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Time to see if any of the photos i took at the RHIC actually look ok.
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On a bus, heading for a day at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Saw a Clash of the Titans ad with a big cookie plastered just in front of the open jaws of the kraken.
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ACS seems annoyed by the NYTimes' "war on cancer" series: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/acs-sfc030910.php
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Not a bad treatment overall, but why does the article have to start by incredulously repeating unsubst. claims? http://tinyurl.com/yao2nbm
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Nice editorial by @markgfh http://bit.ly/bHxLj1 on science funding in the UK, but relevant to any gov't facing deficits/budget cuts.
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Love marketing spam that says "we can increase your daily traffic by X" where X is a small fraction of a single article's mean # of views.
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Almost got signed up for a clinical trial while donating blood today. Neither intervention nor placebo was ready, though.
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Doing a double red blood cell donation - will not live tweet my bleeding, since it's quite dull.
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Despite questionable taste of "yo momma is so fat" jokes, some of these are brilliant: http://tinyurl.com/yhyrssn
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One called DOI use "purely bad form and tantamount to not caring whether or not a claim can be verified."
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Finding there is a small population of our science readers that think using DOIs, rather than full cites, is a form of laziness.
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Based on our readers' response, it looks like Adobe Flash is a major contributor to ad blocking and its economic consequences.
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Are the "strangelets" the LHC was supposed to destroy the world with are the same as the strange quark atoms produced by RHIC?
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Where did 1960s era commercials hide out while they were waiting for YouTube to be invented?
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ATTN: @normative - @alexismadrigal asks "Serious question: what's the libertarian answer for climate change?"
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I love having a job where i get to read highly technical manuscripts that refer to "nonzero strangeness".
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Big this week in the Ars virtual HQ: http://trololololololololololo.com/
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We have a person who has been using NI discussions to argue that science should never rely on statistics. It's thoroughly bizarre.
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RT@FakeAPStylebook All doctorates are interchangeable, making your allergist just as much an authority on global warming as a climatologist.
