Not so many links this week. Sometimes life gets in the way. And when that happens? You need coffee.   That’s better. Now. LINKS Monday: Why won’t the US pay for good public transport? I’m looking at you @wmata ow.ly/10aKTG Mummy genomes reveal just how catastrophic European contact was for New World.ow.ly/10cZFA Even when harassment […]

Today’s post coming at you from the National Science Teacher’s Association conference! Science teachers, man. They blow me away. It’s so wonderful to see how passionate they are about teaching, to overhear them trading awesome teaching ideas and getting more data and research into the classroom. It is just GREAT. I wish I could go […]

Seriously, why won’t you? Every day I see people on the Internet. “That article? UGH it’s PAYWALLED. I’m not going to  PAY to read something! Information on the Internet should be free!” Often it’s not even about paying money. “UGH, this site has ADS. I HATE ADS. I’m going to go read something else.” “UGH this […]

This week, a lot of pontifications on science journalism, and the state thereof. In fact, much of this will be a rant, a rant broken up by links. You’re going to need some coffee. Much twitter-pontification this week was spawned by an article in Pacific Standard, pointing out that science journalism is flawed and fails […]

Back on track, after a busy week with the Intel Science Talent Search! A bunch of the articles I wrote about it are below. And boy did I write a bunch. It’s why my week looked like this:   Monday: The scientist who threw starfish. cool.ow.ly/ZjbHt Tweeting something snarky in a field far outside your […]

This past weekend was a little busy. So much so that I had no time to have a sit down, sip some coffee, and post my links! But now? Now there’s time for coffee. So, here’s last week’s links, for my benefit and possibly yours. Monday: Autopsies are becoming rarer and rarer. And that means […]

This week was the week! The official week in which we launched Science Blogging: The Essential Guide. You totally need a copy. Please do check out our website and resources. And thank you so much to the National Association of Science Writers and the Sloan Foundation for funding us! We paid our writers because of […]

…I have to go back and look now or I’d have NO idea what number we’re on! With mosquitoes, roadkill and sexual harassment in science. And coffee. Without coffee I don’t know how we’d handle all the rest.   Monday: YIKES. “Detox clay” contains high levels of lead. More evidence that this stuff needs regulation. […]

This past week was one of those weeks. The weeks where a pile of things you’ve been working on for different periods of time and in different capacities all come to fruition at the SAME TIME. First of all, I gave a talk Monday at the AAAS meeting in Washington, DC, on different ways to persuade […]

After many months of super seekrit work behind the scenes, my co-editors Christie Wilcox and Jason Goldman and I are thrilled to show off the website for Science Blogging: The Essential Guide. We are especially happy to be able to make a home for the site on The Open Notebook, a fantastic resource site for […]