Last week I started a list of 5 scientists that I think MORE people should follow. Why? Because I keep seeing lists of scientists or science communicators that people DO follow. The most popular lists. And the thing is…well if you follows science people on Twitter, you probably already follow most of the people on […]
The other week the internet was abuzz with the Science Twitter List, The Top 50 Science Stars of Twitter. The post raised some hackles due to its low inclusion of women and minorities, as well as some of the criteria as to who is considered a “scientist” and what it means to be a star […]
This is a rant. It’s a rant because, sometimes, you’ve heard something just one too many times. And sometimes, things link together in my head. I had a conversation with a friend the other day. He was shaking his head over a girl he was seeing. She called herself a fantasy fan…but she had never […]
It’s now been a week since ScienceOnline Together 2014 (and I don’t know about you guys, but I’m still down with the hideous #scioplague. I’m really ready to be done with feeling like I am swallowing a sword all the time). It was, despite some difficulties that I hope we all move forward together to […]
Blame Bashir for this one. In a previous post, I talked about how I wasn’t yet free of academia. How it’s still got hooks in me, in the form of papers that need to be published, and that won’t get published until I get them out. Bashir noted that it was like Borg. […]
Yesterday, I saw something about a “boys only” program at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. I wasn’t thrilled. I tweeted. And it turned out, I didn’t have complete information…and that further information made the issue even more complex. When it is ok to separate boys and girls? And to what end? Will this help […]
There are some posts that punch you in the gut a little. Lately, for me, those posts have been about life in academia. About ‘the system’. Whether or not it failed people. This post was one of them. It hit me hard. But it made me think, too. The post, “The afternoon I decided to […]
A lot of people outside academia don’t realize how slow the gears grind. Projects have to be conceived, funded, performed, written up. Submitted, rejected, submitted again, rejected with revisions, resubmitted, and then, finally, published. In an ideal world, the process takes months. In reality…it can take years. I’m out of academia. But I am not free […]
This is the post about Bora. And the “community” that I thought was there. There’s been other stuff going on as well. But this one is about Bora. I warn you all that this post is very hard for me. Normally what you see here, even the longer ranting or opinion pieces on academic […]
Guest Post 5 is now live over at SciAm, and it’s a GREAT post from Amasian V, of Scientopia! Head over to check out his fantastic post.