…I have to go back and look now or I’d have NO idea what number we’re on! With mosquitoes, roadkill and sexual harassment in science. And coffee. Without coffee I don’t know how we’d handle all the rest. Monday: YIKES. “Detox clay” contains high levels of lead. More evidence that this stuff needs regulation. […]
This past week was one of those weeks. The weeks where a pile of things you’ve been working on for different periods of time and in different capacities all come to fruition at the SAME TIME. First of all, I gave a talk Monday at the AAAS meeting in Washington, DC, on different ways to persuade […]
After many months of super seekrit work behind the scenes, my co-editors Christie Wilcox and Jason Goldman and I are thrilled to show off the website for Science Blogging: The Essential Guide. We are especially happy to be able to make a home for the site on The Open Notebook, a fantastic resource site for […]
Many people want to try to persuade others to agree with them. And many more people think they know exactly how it should be done. Most of those people are probably not entirely correct. I had the pleasure of talking about persuasion in science opinion writing this morning at the AAAS meeting. I’m posting my […]
This weekend I’m partying away at the AAAS meeting (which really means, I’m frantically working with a caffeine IV drip installed, but what else is new?)! But the links keep coming, because SCIENCE! Monday: Giving C section babies a wipe with vaginal microbes. ow.ly/XTzz8 Interested to see what long term effects will be. We’ve got […]
Anyone coming to the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting this weekend in Washington, DC? I’ll be there, reporting, writing furiously, and sometime in there, giving a talk! Opinion Writing: Strategies for Persuasive Public Communication Monday, February 15, 2016: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Hoover (Marriott Wardman Park) When communicating with the public about science, […]
…I got nothing. Ok, that’s not true. I have coffee. Monday: It’s bad when STEM marketing to women is sexist. “…but the answer isn’t to throw out all the pink.” ow.ly/XNngN Small bats beware! White nose affects smaller bats more. ow.ly/XNnEk Check out my links from last week! Spiders in hordes. Zika! Bed bugs! A […]
Science coverage on the Internet is always in flux. One minute I feel like I’m seeing science links galore, and the next…I’m having to really hunt them down. It also seems that my hunting grounds change over time. For a long time, I could find science to read aplenty just by scrolling through my Twitter […]