The other day, I received a tweet that made me immensely happy. @scicurious Wanted to let you know, I'm using your post on obesity & OCD as an example in the tutorial I'm teaching on science blogging! — Andrea Wishart (@pickleswarlz) September 30, 2013 Someone used my blog in a classroom! This gave me all […]
As you may know, I and a bunch of fabulous sciencey people got permission this year to set up a DIY Science Zone at GeekGirlCon! We’ll be making fossils out of coffee grounds, neurons out of pipe cleaners, extracting DNA, genetic taste testing, dancing raisins, and showing the people there that scientists are fun, fantastic […]
I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid, I actually had relatively little science exposure. I wasn’t one of those kids who won prizes at the science fair, because I didn’t have scientist parents to lend me their labs (I did something totally lame with daffodils). I got my main exposure when […]
So, Science Online DC is having a get together tonight to talk about online commenting. How we deal with it, who does it, and what it does to us. And I’ll be there, giving my bit of the tale. Come on out for some pizza and beer!
Sometimes, in order to do new and exciting type of science outreach, you have to think outside the box. Or, perhaps, outside the building. Why bring people to the brain, when you can bring the brain to the people? The brain child (you see what I did there) of graduating senior Tyler Alterman, the Think […]
I want to talk to the scientists out there who are doing world-shaking work. Hello? Does anybody know your names? So begins yet another “call to arms” for scientists. We aren’t communicating, we aren’t getting out there and making Star Trek-like movies about the inner biology of the cell (which I would TOTALLY watch and […]
I don’t know about you, but I love planetarium shows. I’m not even a huge fan of space, but I could go to those things all day. And of course, the planetarium shows aren’t always about space, often they’ve got sharks or rainforests. It’s a great educational experience, and wonderfully immersive. But I have always […]
Sci was at AAAS last week to give a talk on Scientists and Social Media! We had a great audience with lots of questions, and I was so glad that people felt engaged! Of course, not everyone could make the talk, so if you WANTED to and couldn’t, I have put up my slides and […]
Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, wrapping up my second session from Science Online 2013, a session on Identity. We had a really productive discussion, and we’d like to build on it! Is there a way that you use your identity in your writing? Is there a way you could use one of your identities […]
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 […]