This week, a lot of pontifications on science journalism, and the state thereof. In fact, much of this will be a rant, a rant broken up by links. You’re going to need some coffee. Much twitter-pontification this week was spawned by an article in Pacific Standard, pointing out that science journalism is flawed and fails […]

Back on track, after a busy week with the Intel Science Talent Search! A bunch of the articles I wrote about it are below. And boy did I write a bunch. It’s why my week looked like this:   Monday: The scientist who threw starfish. cool.ow.ly/ZjbHt Tweeting something snarky in a field far outside your […]

This past weekend was a little busy. So much so that I had no time to have a sit down, sip some coffee, and post my links! But now? Now there’s time for coffee. So, here’s last week’s links, for my benefit and possibly yours. Monday: Autopsies are becoming rarer and rarer. And that means […]

This week was the week! The official week in which we launched Science Blogging: The Essential Guide. You totally need a copy. Please do check out our website and resources. And thank you so much to the National Association of Science Writers and the Sloan Foundation for funding us! We paid our writers because of […]

…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, […]