whalefall:

The 10 July 1976 Seveso disaster resulted in the highest dioxin exposure documented in humans and the largest cohort of dioxin-exposed women.

robdelaney:

Hi Sport fans of Basketball!

March Madness is a wonderful American sports tradition where over 800 college basketball teams compete to see who is the maddest! It’s VERY mad and everyone from President Barack Obama down to the lowliest, most recent immigrant from Sierra Leone or Canada get into it BIG TIME. It’s pretty much the most American thing that happens every year, more American than eating an apple pie off of a space shuttle’s hood on Jesus Christ’s birthday. 

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 The goal here is a list of all major journal embargoes (the ones that science-health journalists and bloggers typically cover), not a comprehensive list of all sci-health journal embargoes.

Please do not trust this list. At best, this list is a resource to generate dialogue as to an actual or correct embargo, or against which to challenge an embargo time claim.

All times in Eastern time zone.

Sunday:

1 pm — Nature Genetics, Nature Neuroscience (all the Nature research journals,various advance of print papers)

Monday:

12:01 am — Pediatrics

12:01 pm — Some Current Biology papers (others embargoed for Thursday)

12:01 pm — Canadian Medical Association Journal

3 pm — PNAS

4 pm — Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine — basically all the JAMA Archives titles

5 pm — Annals of Internal Medicine

7 pm — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Tuesday:

11 am — Nature Communications

4 pm — JAMA

5 pm — PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (as above, official embargo time is 5 pm for all PLoS journals, but unofficially embargo lifts once the paper is published online, which may be as much as an hour earlier. Those on press list are advised to check if paper is online before publishing)

7 pm — All Royal Society journals, including Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biology Letters, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Interface

Wednesday:

1 pm — Nature

2 pm — Science Translational Medicine

4 pm — JNCI?

5 pm — New England Journal of Medicine

7:01 pm — Conservation Biology (and all Wiley journals typically)

Thursday:

12:01 pm — Cell journals, including Cell, Neuron, Current Biology

2 pm — Science

4 pm — American Journal of Public Health

5 pm — PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens, CompBio, BMC Evolutionary Biology

6:30 pm — The Lancet

7:00 pm — BMJ

Friday:

12:01 am — Bioscience

12:15 am —  Journal of Experimental Biology

4:00 pm — JNCI?

Daily:

5 pm — PLoS ONE (Mon-Fri) (Sort of. PLoS ONE embargoes automatically lift as soon as the paper publishes. If that happens to be 4:28 pm, you can publish your story.)

NO EMBARGOES OR NO STANDARD EMBARGOES:

Astrophysical Journal, Astronomical Journal, Journal of Consumer Research, Physical Review Letters, Geology, AGU journals, ACS journals, ESA journals

NOTES:

Major publishers: Cell, Elsevier, JAMA, Nature Publishing, Public Library, Sage, Wiley, ACS

An embargo time of 12:00 or 0:00 is vague and subject to misinterpretation, so always push press officers to clarify and convert to 12:01 pm or 12:01 am to make the time more clear.

Compiled by Robin Lloyd with help from Bora Zivkovic, Ed Yong, Ivan Oransky, Dan Vergano, Alex Witze and whoever else chimes in

To suggest updates to this list: robinmlloyd AT gmail.

This Dealbook post reads musty. “A niche blogging site called Tumblr”? Really, Dealbook?

This is my favorite passage (it’s lower down):

In a media environment saturated with such blatant disinformation, it’s not only our job to report on the progress of science, it is our job to report on those who are working furiously — and with vast resources  — to demean and diminish the role of science in our society by framing scientists as merely another special-interest group with an agenda.

Alex Witze did a great job covering this talk that Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann gave at the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing meeting on Sunday.

Here are a few other of his more pointed statements from that talk:

“No doubt we are in for a period over next months or even years where climate science is likely to be subject to the sort of politically motivated inquisition that we frankly haven’t seen in this country since the 1950s and it is of course necessary not only for the science community to do the best that it can to defend itself from this attack but frankly we are entirely reliant on willingness of mainstream media to serve in its role as a critical and independent arbiter to not just report the two sides of this so-called debate but to establish what is fact and what is fiction. Scientists will not be successful in their own attacks coming unless the media is serving its role.”

He added that we must “draw those analogies [to 1950s McCarthyism and its blacklisting campaigns] where they are appropriate. I think they are relevant and legitimate.”

And re: the Virginia AG’s efforts to get his hands on the climate scientists’ data, Mann noted that the data are already available to the public. He added that the attorney general “wouldn’t know what to do with data if he was given it. He doesn’t want any materials that relate to science and the conduct of science. He is looking to get hold of more private correspondences between scientists, emails written documents, that they can again mine for individual phrases that can be used to distort what climate scientists believe and say in their ongoing campaign to fool the public about reality of human caused climate change.”

NPR says they chose Tumblr over Posterous b’c it’s the ‘sweet spot.’

As this story says, it is interesting to see Politico evolve. However, I don’t see any signs that consumers really believe that there is political “over-saturation” in the media. Consumers complain about this, but they keep on eating. Losing Kinsley is a big intellectual blow to the Atlantic, but they still have such a strong brand and the top blogger in the world, Andrew Sullivan. So I think they’ll hang tough. And Atlantic did just acquire sci-tech-energy-digital wizard Alexis Madrigal from Wired.

Vermont vacation: this is how apple cider is made at Cold Hollow Cider Mill. Here a staffer fills a filter clothed tray full of apple smush. 12 such layers are stacked and subjected to 1000 lbs of pressure and the juice that flows out basically becomes delicious cider.