Unlike previous years, Sci will NOT be Neuroblogging this year’s SfN. I did like doing it, it was loads of fun, but I’m afraid there’s just too much on my plate this year. I will definitely be looking up this year’s neurobloggers, though! I think I recognize some names! 🙂 But I would like to […]
Kate Clancy has another excellent post up at Context and Variation. This one is on the idea of using sports psychology to help yourself function in academia. Go read it. Then come back. 🙂 I like this idea very much. In particular, I really like the idea of deliberately separating out what you can and […]
…but they mean much more than most people think they mean. People on blogs talk about work-life balance a lot. We talk about working “only” 60 hours a week. We talk about having a hobby. We talk about having kids. We talk a lot of balance. But there’s one big aspect of academic life that […]
Things I should have been doing today: 1. Working on a paper 2. Running an experiment 3. Wrangling students 4. Planning more experiments 5. Reading some lit 6. Preparing a talk 7. Other Basic daily list, and much less than I often deal with (example, no teaching at the moment and the exam doesn’t have […]
Last week, when I wrote a post about science outreach and some of the issues facing the academic community, I wasn’t expecting quite so much of an explosion. I was hoping for some good discussion, and boy did I get it, in the form of comments and blog posts and tweets (heck, SONYC even did […]
I keep seeing posts which go on and on, we don’t understand science, there’s not enough scientific outreach, and this is all the scientists’ fault. This is the message I get, over and over. It is the scientists’ fault. If we really cared about outreach we should be doing it, it is our job, our […]
I was alerted by the Neurocritic to a new paper out in PLoS ONE on research blogs and discussion of scientific information. It’s an analysis of researchblogging.org bloggers, who there are, what they blog about, and who is significant. It’s an interesting ‘state of the blogsphere’ type read (though I don’t feel the significance of […]
I realize it’s been a while since EB 2012 ended and I left the not-so-sunny San Diego (at least, it wasn’t sunny at the time). Conferences are always great for the development of ideas. You get new ideas about your research, new directions to go in or troubleshooting things to try. And at EB this […]
Welcome to the 15th Edition of the Diversity in Science Carnival, focusing on Imposter Syndrome! I knew that this issue affected a lot of people, but you’ll realize just how many from the unprecedented number of people who have submitted posts! So I hope that here you’ll be able to see just how many people […]
I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning (yikes!) for Experimental Biology 2012 (!!), where I’ll be presenting my own totally cool science while also participating in a few social media things, including the Tweetup scheduled for Monday night (hope to see you there!). To get ready for that, I wrote up a post on how blogging, twitter, […]