Science Blogging: Networks, Boundaries and Limitations

Blogging in the Political Science Classroom

Weblogs (or blogs), as a form of communication on the Internet, have recently risen in prominence but may be poorly understood by both faculty and students. This article explains how blogs differ from other online communication tools and how political science faculty canmake use of blogs in their classes. The focus is on using blogs as part of class assignments to reinforce important skills, in...

Boundaries of Regulatory Science

Pushing the boundaries: Science Advances

S cience Advances was launched on February 2015 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in San Jose, Cal­ ifornia, as the online, open­ access ex pansion of Science magazine. Science Advances, like its older sibling, covers the full gamut of scientific dis­ ciplines, including (but not limited to) earth and space sciences; ecology, evolution, and environ...

Crossing boundaries: computational science, e-Science and global e-Infrastructure.

These two Theme Issues of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A contain selected papers from the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008, which was held in Edinburgh between 8 and 11 September 2008 (http://www.allhands.org.uk/2008/). The meeting was a major success, attracting a record number of contributions (250) and a very large number of participants (527). One of us (P.V.C.) was delighted to have been able t...

“Science” and “Religion”: Constructing the Boundaries