As you sip your morning (or afternoon, or evening!) coffee today, check out Scicurious at Scientific American, where I’m talking where caffeine produces its stimulation in the brain. Check it out, and keep sipping! 🙂
As you sip your morning (or afternoon, or evening!) coffee today, check out Scicurious at Scientific American, where I’m talking where caffeine produces its stimulation in the brain. Check it out, and keep sipping! 🙂
The word of the week this week is one that many scientists often assume that you already know: presynaptic. But do you? Pre- means before, and it’s before the synapse, but what does that mean? Presynaptic: This is an adjective really, but when I use it, I use it to talk about the neuron that […]
One of the best things about being a science blogger is that every day, it seems, I learn something new. I mean, I learned something new most days before I was a blogger, but now, NOW I trawl the internet looking for the things that make you go OMG. And today, I found something that […]
For my final wrapup of Science Online 2012, I’m over at Scientific American today, with a storify of the session Lou Woodley and I did on “The Next Generation Science Conference”. We talked about adding an online element to conferences, determining what you want from it, and how to get there. Head over to SciAm […]
Sci is at SciAm today with a storified wrapup of my awesome session with Kate Clancy at Science Online 2012. We talked about risks that we take in blogging, why we take them, and how we can make sure they are best handled. Participant Marissa was kind enough to put together a storify on the […]
Last week’s word of the week was not a sciencey word, but a fun word, because why not? But this word of the week is one I use ALL the time, and one that I always worry people don’t know about. And your brain is full of them, so it seems relatively important to know […]
Sea monsters. People are continually fascinated by them. You’ve got those who believe fervently that there are still undiscovered monsters of the deep, and then you have those who wonder what the monsters we’ve already sighted…really are. Did someone really see Nessie? Or did they really see something else? And if they saw something else, […]
Since I first saw a post by Jesse Bering, responding to a question by a “Deep Thinking Hebephile”, I have wished to write a response of my own, covering more of the literature on the subject, and clarifying some points. It’s taken a while to gather my sources. For starters, I do not think that […]
Lou Woodley and I are very excited for our Science Online 2012 session on “The Next Generation Science Conference”. We’ll be talking about how scientific societies can get online, how and whether to use your online presence as a society for outreach, and how societies and bloggers can help each other out. Check it out […]
Sci is at Sci Am today, sharing part of my blog origin story, as part of a description of what my session with Kate Clancy will be about at Science Online 2012. We will be talking about taking risks in science blogging, what it means, and what our responsibilities are. And of course, we’ll be […]