Cephalopodcast

The latest Carnival of the Blue is up at James Hrynyshyn’s Island of Doubt blog. I submitted my last podcast for consideration. New to the CotB is Ocean of Island Rambles with a number of orca photos. I also found out that NOAA should not exist.

Next month’s festivities will be back at the mother fish.

The latest Carnival of the Blue is up at Zooillogix. Plenty of “hot, mollusk action” in this one. Sad to say, I completely missed the deadline (again), so no entries from me. Instead, enjoy apophallatic hermaphrodites from the Oyster’s Garter, plastinated squids from the Bleiman Brothers, or even suicidal pelagics from Rick.

And next month remind me to send a link to Mark before it’s too late.

I’ll be headed up to where it’s colder this weekend for the NC Science Blogging Conference. I will be participating in one panel discussion during the conference, Real-time blogging in the marine sciences from 9:50-11:00 a.m. (ET).

Moderated by Kevin Zelnio of The Other 95%, Peter Etnoyer of Deep Sea News, Karen James of the Beagle Project, Rick Mac Pherson of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets and Jason Robertshaw of the Cephalopodcast.

Our discussion will be initially be focused on the following:
- Using blogs as a tool in Science, Conservation and Marine Education
- Blogs as filters of novel research and synthesizers of concepts
- Communicating Marine Science to the public via blogs (including podcasting and video blogs) to increasing public awareness of Ocean Science and related issues (i.e. who reads marine biology blogs and why).
- Blogging from the field as a method to communicate the scientific method, how research is done and what its like to be a scientist
- The multifaceted constraints of blogging in the field and to what extent blogging does or does not represent the organization you work for.

This is in an unconference format, so everyone who attends the event is encouraged to be an active participant in all of the sessions and discussions.

Also, depending on the bandwidth capabilites available, I will attempt to stream the presentation.

• My conference updates will be available at the Offical Cephalopodcast NC Science Blogging Conference page
• Any streaming will take place at the Cephalopodcast ustream.tv channel
• If ustream fails, I might try Talkshoe

Things have been pretty dry here at the cephaloblog. My apologies, but tis the season for distraction. I didn’t even have a post worth forwarding on to this month’s Carnival of the Blue. But you can moisten up with the latests submission from other fin folk. Carnival of the Blue #7 is now up at The Natural Patriot.

And I have a long overdue interview with Mark Powell to post on this very matter shortly. Stay tuned.

A funny thing happens when you start rearranging the letters in the title of some blogs. Strangely, I see a definite trend towards analagrams with the results from my own blog.

Anagrams for Cephalopodcast (67254 found)

1. Coastal Chopped
2. Papa Cod Clothes
3. Clashed Cat Poop
4. Cloaca Depth Ops
5. Cecal Pathos Pod

Anagrams for Pharyngula (176 found)

1. A Phyla Rung
2. A Harpy Lung
3. Angry Pal Uh
4. Ah Pray Lung
5. Gnarl Yap Uh

Anagrams for Deep-Sea News (1267 found)

1. Seaweed Pens
2. Sand Pee Wees
3. We Need Peas
4. Sea Deep Wens
5. Sea End Weeps

Anagrams for Laelaps (46 found)

1. Ale Laps
2. Seal Pal
3. Paellas
4. All Peas
5. All Apes

Anagrams for Shifting Baselines (58824 found)

1. A Belting Fishiness
2. A Sensible Fish Ting
3. A Binge Elfish Snits
4. A Bile Fishnet Signs
5. Lets Begin A Fish Sin

You can explore your own confirmation bias over at the Wordsmith Internet Anagrams Server.

Some osteological curiosities have been collecting in my cabinet inbox. It’s hard to articulate why I find these so humerus since some of them are quite gross.

• Michael Paulus: Skeletal Systems, a character study of 22 present and past cartoon cahracters
• Hyungkoo Lee: Looney Toons I and II
• Pac Man
• Bigfoot
• Grey Alien
• Hajime Emoto: Creepy

And if you want to take these things more seriously, try the teaching kits.

There is a new inky link for cephalopod enthusiasts: The Cephalopod Centerfold. It is a blog by Jessica from Massachusetts.

I live in Massachusetts. I like squids, octopus, nautiluses, cuttlefish-anything with at least eight underwater arms. Uh, drowning spiders don’t count.

Guess the last bit means that ear spiders are out of the consideration. But highlights so far include: baconopod, sink cephalopods and octopus papercraft.