Just as Rome wasn’t build in a single day, science progresses slowly but strongly as well, constantly searching for, suggesting or rejecting new fundamental theory, and ‘padding’ these with additional findings. Shoulder-padding that is, for we all stand on the shoulders, the strong fundaments of our predecessors. Why do I use such Big Words? Because I am very excited to announce that today I’m hosting the new edition of ‘The Giant’s Shoulders’, here on Curving Normality. Giant’s Shoulders is a monthly science blogging event, in which authors are invited to submit posts on “classic” scientific papers.
Today, I am happy to present to you the first edition of the Curving Normality blog carnival. It is all about the quantitative social sciences, and aims at bringing together high quality blog posts about our lovely profession. With just a few weeks of preparation, I am very pleased with the number of submissions, and especially glad with their quality. Apparently, the quantitative social scientists are quite well represented in the blogosphere!
You’re not a blogger if you don’t participate in Blog Carnival, so it seems. Blog carnival are a great way of finding new blogs, interesting posts, and creative bloggers all within a single topic of interest. The host of the carnival gathers a collection of posts, writes an editorial, and obviously links to the posts.
A vast number of carnivals already exist. Fascinating ones and content are found on The Giant’s Shoulders, on classic science papers, Carnival of the Mathematics (although I understand nearly half of it), Four Stone Hearth, on anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word, Cabinet of Curiosities, and The Skeptics Circle.
A longer list is found on Coturnix’s blog
Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to find a blogging carnival on sociology or social sciences in general. Therefor, I now introduce the Curving Normality Blogging Carnival on Quantitative Social Sciences.
