Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) 45 is Published!

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.


Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) -- "Scientia Pro Publica 45" -- was published by Anastasia at her group blog, BIOfortified. This is the first time she's hosted this carnival, so be sure to go there and leave a few encouraging words in her comments section.

To share yours, or others', excellent science, environment, nature or medical writing, either use this automated submission form or use the cute little widget on the right (be aware that widget doesn't upload when the mother site is nonfunctional, and ALWAYS check your email/spam filter for your submission receipt to be sure it was sent properly). Alternatively, you can also send the link directly to the Scientia Blog Carnival email address.

The next edition will publish on 22 November, unless we get a deluge of submissions by the end of this week. If that happens, we will be asking (begging?) someone to host next Monday, 15 November. If you'd like to host, please consider doing so this coming Monday or see the schedule to choose any remaining Monday in 2010 that isn't already scheduled -- leave your chosen date in the comments thread or email me. Alternatively, if you wish to host in 2011, the schedule is now ready for you to start claiming Very Important Dates as your very own, so pop in and grab your date before someone else does!

As always, we need submissions of excellent quality science, environment, nature and medical blog writing, so don't hesitate to provide your assistance: if you read or write something that you wish to share with a larger audience, be sure to send us the link now (note: some links have recently been tweeted to me; I promise to do my best to follow those up, but cannot make any guarantees at this time!).

For you twitter fiends, Scientia Pro Publica has its own twitter account: @Science4People. If you like reading science, nature and medical blog carnivals in general, you can also check out @SciNatBlogs.

Scientia Pro Publica 2011 Schedule

This is the 2011 schedule for Scientia Pro Publica. As you can see, we are seeking hosts for all scheduled editions for 2011, so if you have a favorite date, be sure to leave a comment or send me email now to claim that date.

I also do schedule the carnival to publish weekly when we get enough submissions to make that possible (this typically occurs in October through December, then again in February through June). I do this to keep the host from being overwhelmed with huge numbers of submissions, and I also do this so each essay receives the public attention it deserves.


Scientia Pro Publica 2011:

• 3 January --
• 17 January --
• 31 January --
• 14 February --
• 28 February --
• 13 March --
• 27 March --
• 10 April --
• 24 April --
• 8 May --
• 22 May --
• 5 June --
• 19 June --
• 3 July --
• 17 July --
• 31 July --
• 14 August --
• 28 August --
• 11 September --
• 25 September --
• 9 October --
• 23 October --
• 6 November --
• 20 November --
• 4 December --
• 18 December --

If you are interested to host Scientia but have never before hosted a blog carnival, I wrote a blog essay about how I hosted my very first blog carnival way back in 2005. That blog carnival was Tangled Bank, the "parent" of Scientia, which this blog carnival seeks to emulate by (1) communicating about science, medicine, the environment and nature to the public and (2) encouraging those who write about these topics by providing them with an audience who provides feedback and criticism on their writing.

The goal for Scientia is to provide each host with roughly 25 non-spam non-woo submissions to work with. Hosts are also encouraged to seek submissions from their blog-writing colleagues (who may be new to us) and to include blog entries (essays, opinion pieces, poems, cartoons, etc.) that they've found in their travels around the internet. When more than 25 submissions are received in a week's period of time, this blog carnival will then publish every Monday instead of the every alternate Monday. We generally are only so lucky to publish weekly during the traditional school year (September-December and February-June). All submissions will be forwarded to your email account from the Scientia email account.

You can follow the Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival on twitter @Science4People. You can follow all science, environment, natural history, nature and medicine blog carnivals on the combined @SciNatBlogs twitter feed. If you host a carnival that should be tweeted by @SciNatBlogs, please do cc your tweets to us and we'll retweet it as soon as possible.

Feel free to give me your ideas and feedback here or send email to me with suggestions.

Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) 44 is Published!

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.


Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) -- "Scientia Pro Publica 44 (the silly walks edition?)" -- was published by Madhu at his blog, a leaf warbler's gleanings.

To share yours, or others', excellent writing, either use this automated submission form or use the cute little widget on the right (be aware that widget doesn't upload when the mother site is nonfunctional, and ALWAYS check your email/spam filter for your submission receipt to be sure it was sent properly). Alternatively, you can also send the link directly to the Scientia Blog Carnival email address.

The next edition will publish on 8 November. If you'd like to host, please see the schedule to choose any remaining Monday that isn't already scheduled -- leave your chosen date in the comments thread or email me.

As always, we need submissions of excellent quality science, nature and medical blog writing, so don't hesitate to provide your assistance: if you read or write something that you wish to share with a larger audience, be sure to send us the link now (note: some links have been tweeted to me; I promise to do my best to follow those up, but cannot make any guarantees at this time!)