Sci is back from Science Online 2013. It was so lovely to hang out with wonderful old internet friends and to meet so many new ones! It’s one of my favorite conferences, full of deep (and often highly silly) conversations about science communication. It always leaves me re-energized, and even more eager to do it […]
Sci is over at SciAm Blogs today, talking about my other session for Science online 2013! On Saturday afternoon, we’ll be talking about Identity, and the way that different identities can affect our writing and how we approach social media. And the session is going to be live videoed in room 3!! It promises to […]
I’m sure that most of the academic readers of this blog (and heck, maybe the non-academics, too!) have seen the recent outrage that results from a Forbes post: The least stressful jobs of 2013. The winner of this title went to the university professor, due to: they are off between May and September and they […]
Higher Education people are all talking about the MOOC. MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses including sites like Udacity and Coursera, are the latest hotness in online learning and open classrooms. The big universities like Cal Tech are getting on board, and asking their professors to contribute. The concept is that of an online class enhanced, […]
Over at the Molecular Ecologist, there’s a great carnival up of posts on “knowing what I know now”. What advice did you wish you had given your past self? I and many others have a TON, and we hope it will benefit you! So head over and check it out!
Last night, while doing the classic late night science (timepoints happen to us all), I saw a conversation around the topic of getting a PhD…to become a science writer. It turned out that the conversation was based around this post over at SciLogs, where Jalees wrote that getting a PhD, in order to become a […]
Since writing about a pharmacology crowdfund, which raised money to look at localization of amphetamine inside neurons (and which got funded!), I have received emails asking me to “advertise” other crowdfunds. I decided to use this latest opportunity to ask the willing scientists some questions about how, exactly, they came across crowdfunding, whether it was […]
I felt very inspired looking at the recent post from Jeremy Yoder, ‘Knowing what I know now‘. Well, first it reminded me of this: Though of course this is the BEST song of that title: But then it made me think of all the things that I WISH I’d known in grad school, the things […]
As we all know, science funding these days is really hard to come by. Rejection rates for federal grants are up over 80{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3}. Labs are more and more expensive to run as more high tech equipment is required just to get the funding in the first place. And that’s not even going into the money […]
This is a repost from last year’s SfN Neuroblogging. While I am not blogging the conference this year, i’d like to repost this one, as I ALWAYS get asked what to bring, and what to WEAR! Every time Sci goes to a conference, I end up getting asked for stuff. Chances are, I usually have […]