The 51 entries selected for this year’s Open Lab Anthology have been announced, and what a list is it! Make sure you check it out, there are some truly wonderful selections there!

Ok, apparently the real list wasn’t supposed to be announced until January, but oops! People get excited and can’t contain themselves. 🙂 The winners are slowly chatting it up on Twitter, and I’m happy to announce that a guest post on this very blog was selected! Check out Allie’s post on the taint (yeah, THAT […]

Yes! Sci was on the radio just recently, on the CBC show Spark , talking about pseudonyms, and why I have one, and why I think they are important. Interesting chance to hear both sides of the debate. So if you’d like to hear Sci’s dulcet tones (and they are so very dulcet), head on […]

Hermitage has done it again, and by “it”, I mean her fantastic carnival about women in academia, now with 100{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} fewer babies! Many women in academia find that “women in academia” seminars and sessions end up dominated by questions of family balance, and while that’s obviously extremely important, there are lots of questions out there […]

…and I’m in it. Just sayin’. Jason Goldman and Bora Zivkovic have come out with this year’s edition of Open Lab! With new cover art by Andrea Kuczenski, this year’s version promises you 50 of the best posts of the year! I should know, I’m one of them. 🙂 So check it out, and pick […]

You all may recall that Scientopia just got a brilliant new Guest Blog(ge)! We’re transitioning to new writers every two week, so please welcome this week Thony from The Rennaissance Mathematicus and Penny from Temple University! Thony already has a welcome post up (and probably more), and Penny has a fantastic one just up on […]

Yeah, I know it was over a week ago, but when you’ve got 10 collaborators, and none of them has spare time, you can understand why it took a while. And now. Here we are. At Science Online 2011 this past weekend, Joanne Manaster, Maryn McKenna, Vivienne Raper, Eric Michael Johnson, Brian Mossop, Carin Bondar, […]

First off, thanks SO much to everyone who responded to my survey!!! I really appreciate it! I ended up with over 200 responses, but because I’m cheap and don’t want to pay outrageous prices for Survey Monkey, I only have access to the first 100. 🙁 But still, we got DATA. And what it says […]

The Open Lab results are out! And Sci is IN for my guest post in Scientific American on the antidepressant reboxetine! Go check out who else, esp the posts by Kate Clancy, Deborah Blum, Christie Wilcox, Brian Switek, Ed Yong, Captain Skellett, Eric Michael Johnson,… you know what, just check them all out. Why am […]

Sci’s been wondering about this. People who have blogs, who reads you? How do you know? I know from sitemeter where my links are coming in from, but I really don’t have a good idea of WHO these people ARE. You know what. It’s time for a SURVEY. PEOPLE WHO READ ME OF THE WORLD: […]