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• Crowdsourcing: accessibility on wordpress.com?

  By tigtog on 2012-01-11 • ( 9 )

  

  I’ve noticed that quite a few of the trendy designs for blog templates on the free WordPress.com site, while looking very gorgeous and all, are just not that accessible for folks – pale grey fonts, especially tiny pale grey fonts, are the worst offender. I’d like to have a list of themes good and bad…

• Conflict of interest, what conflict of interest?

  By Mindy on 2012-01-08 • ( 4 )

  

  Diet promoter suggests grading students based on their BMI.

• Sunday Singalong: Violeta Parra

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-01-08

  

  OK, this one is Violeta Parra, an incredibly haunting Chilean folk singer who saw folk music as a “weapon against oppression”.  Yeah which revolutionary didn’t? She and her children became the song-writers of the left-wing political movement of her country…. Read More ›

• BFTP — Endangered Sunday: grey nurse shark

  By Mary on 2012-01-08

  

  I’ve been in the water with a lot of sharks: leopard sharks, wobbegongs, Port Jackson sharks, grey and white tipped reef sharks and grey nurse sharks. What’s a scary thing I’ve encountered diving? That dreaded apex predatory homo sapiens. Homo sapiens is of course the big threat to today’s Endangered Sunday species, the grey nurse shark or carcharias taurus.

• Mary’s helpful guide to soliciting research participation on the ‘net

  By Mary on 2012-01-08 • ( 5 )

  

  In my years on the ‘net, I’ve seen any number of people want to interview others or get them to take surveys for everything from a short high school or undergraduate paper through to graduate research projects and books. And they so seldom manage to meet basic ethical guidelines for making sure they aren’t wasting their participants’ time at best or endangering them at worst.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-01-07 • ( 11 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? […] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• The annual Sydneysiders’ Coogee femblogger trip: Sunday Jan 15

  By Chally on 2012-01-05 • ( 2 )

  

  Come join us at Coogee on the 15th!

• 2857 days of not waking up with intrascapular pain

  By tigtog on 2012-01-04 • ( 4 )

  

  This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series: in March 2004 I had breast reduction mammoplasty surgery.

• Quick hit: Not as easy as calories in =/= calories out

  By Mindy on 2012-01-03 • ( 11 )

  

  New study shows it is not as easy as calories in =/= calories out for people trying to maintain long term weight loss.

• Libra’s new transphobic ad, and what you can do about it

  By Chally on 2012-01-02 • ( 31 )

  

  So here’s some unnecessary and unkind rubbish in a new ad from Libra, a company selling tampons, pads and liners in New Zealand and Australia. Poking fun at trans women is very much not how to get the tampon-buying public on your side.

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