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Emerging Infections
#258 – Emerging Infections Image from National Institutes of Health This week, my other other family at Science for The People is discussing invading organisms large and small. They talk to Dr. Michael...
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In Memory of Helen
We received the tragic news that we lost Helen Chappell today. You can read about Helen in her own words here. Helen was an invaluable member of the science communication community and the human...
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The Cutting Edge
If you are in the DC area tomorrow, the AAAS is hosting an interesting event that piggybacks off the Voyage of Discovery art installation by Jessica Beels, Ellyn Weiss, and our own Michele Banks called...
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Science for The People: Internet Things
#263 – Internet Things This week, we’re looking at controversies over connectivity, both online and in the physical world. University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist walks us through the...
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Let’s take back the comments section!
Remember when we all left comments on blogs? I looked at some of my old blog posts from 2007-ish, and they’re full of discussions, friendly notes, silly pictures, and occasionally spin off into random...
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Science for The People: Science & the Death Penalty
This week, Science for The People looks at the science of the ultimate criminal punishment. Pharmacologist and science writer David Kroll discusses the chemistry of the drugs used in lethal injections....
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Dr. Twitter
Our travel guru, Eva Amsen, was recently interviewed by Times Higher Education about using Twitter and other social media productively as an academic in her role as outreach coordinator for F1000. The...
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MySciCareer
For the past year and a half, Lou Woodley and I have been running MySciCareer, a website with first person science career stories. It’s not just jobs in research and it’s not just jobs outside of...
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Support Your Local Podcaster
There are those groups where you keep wondering why they let you in. I’m not talking about impostor syndrome (I went to graduate school – I know that of which I speak), but the kind of group where you...
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Microbial Musing
Have you ever wondered what makes Michele Banks tick? Nature Microbiology did. So, they asked her. You can read their interview with Michele here and gaze upon her lovely artwork for their homepage...
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