Awards & Mentions
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Awards
December 2011. “This Ain’t Yo Momma’s Muktuk: Fermented Seal Flipper, Being Cold, Botulism & Other Joys of Arctic Living” is included in the Open Laboratory 2012 anthology of the best online science writing of 2011 – Article & Link. The book is available (in paper, not just bytes!) for purchase here.
Editor’s Selections from Research Blogging
- May 6, 2011. Consider the Carpaccio: Looking at Toxoplasmosis — Article & Editor’s Selection
- September 29, 2011. Revenge of the Fishball: The Magnificent Fish Tapeworm — Article & Editor’s Selection
- October 20, 2011 and October 21, 2011. Of Warts & Men: Meat-Handlers Infected with Human Papillomavirus 7 — Article & Editor’s Selection 1 and 2.
- January 13, 2012. Buzz Kill: Blood-Borne Disease Transmission at the Hajj – Article & Editor’s Selection.
- February 2, 2012. Man’s Best Friend, the Turkana Tribe & a Gruesome Parasite – Article & Editor’s Selection.
- March 29th, 2012. Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Human Sentinels for Disease Outbreaks – Article & Editor’s Selection.
- April 20th, 2012. An Update on Baylisascariasis: Benign Infection in an Elderly Woman – Article & Editor’s Selection
- May 3, 2012. – Ophthalmology of the Pharaohs: Antimicrobial Kohl Eyeliner in Ancient Egypt – Article & Editor’s Selection.
Recommended Reading
- April 29, 2011. “Blood Money: Hookworm Economics in the Postbellum South” is included in the Worth Reading selections of the week from The Pump Handle – Article &Link
- April 30, 2011. “Blood Money: Hookworm Economics in the Postbellum South” is included in the Top Thirteen Picks of the week from Not Exactly Rocket Science – Article & Link
- October 8, 2011. “Houston, We Mite Have a Problem” is included in the Top Thirteen Picks of the week from Not Exactly Rocket Science – Article & Link
- April 20, 2012. “Ophthalmology of the Pharaohs: Antimicrobial Kohl Eyeliner in Ancient Egypt” is selected by Contagions Round Up – Article & Link
