Sci’s Coffee-Sipping Roundup #19

…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 […]

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What am I missing?

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 […]

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Sci’s Coffee-sipping Roundup #18

We started this week a little snowy, but that doesn’t stop the science!! Stay cozy. Grab some coffee. Sip with me. Monday: Danger, Ron Weasley. Spiders that group together in gangs of 50,000. ow.ly/Xqewu by @jgold85 New Sci! There’s a sour side to serotonin. Literally. ow.ly/Xv2iF How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a […]

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Sci’s Coffee-Sipping Roundup, #17

We may be completely snowed under here on the East Coast, but that means, hey, you’ve got nothing to do but read some cool science links with ME! Let us begin with some coffee. Monday: Ok this is pretty cool. There’s a site that chronicles the “accidental” fossils in the architecture of DC. ow.ly/X6GcT A […]

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Sci’s Coffee-sipping Roundup #16

There’s a tortoise hidden somewhere in these links. Bet you can’t find it.   Monday: A tour thru the wacky world of period-related patents. Vibrating tampons. pH monitoring! Bluetooth! ow.ly/WLT8s by @roseveleth Sad but true: In academia, people are sometimes asked to write their own letters of rec. I know I did. ow.ly/WNDi5 Ancient Rome’s […]

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Sci’s Coffee-sipping round up, #15

New year, new links! But first, coffee.   Monday: The seventh row of the periodic table is officially full. ow.ly/WyWdj A rather sweet interview with a glaciologist who ended up studying global warming on a round about way with whisky. ow.ly/WyWpg Nature has a list of their top books from 2015. I’m amused to see […]

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Sci’s Coffee-sipping roundup, #14

End of year edition! I don’t tweet a lot around the holidays. It’s all end of year lists and very little new science. But here’s what I’ve got, and some of it’s still pretty awesome. First, coffee. December 21 Plesiosaurs may have swum like penguins!! Makes me absurdly happy for some reason.ow.ly/W4tAK Austin Powers bites […]

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A year in podcasts

I have found that New Year’s Resolutions come in several types: Practical (save money to do something, get a better job, etc). Aspirational (run a marathon, eat “clean” whatever that means, go somewhere exotic, be “present” and eat more kale). Educational (learn more, read 100 books in a year, write more). Negative (a resolution against […]

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Sci’s Coffee-Sipping Roundup, #13

Is it just me, or does EVERYTHING speed up around the holidays? All of a sudden there’s more work to be done, presents to buy, coffee to drink… Just me?   Monday: I love the idea of a necrobiome. Wouldn’t do to get it mixed up with the microbiome, though.ow.ly/VJndr by @edyong209 “Manipulating brain circuits […]

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What’s on your #scibucketlist?

“Man, I REALLY want to dissect a whale.” I’m not sure what thoughts led up to this one. But as I sat at my desk this past Thursday, probably combing through lit of recently washed-up whales and their cleanup efforts, that was the thought foremost in my brain. I have wanted to dissect a whale […]

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