Many people want to try to persuade others to agree with them. And many more people think they know exactly how it should be done. Most of those people are probably not entirely correct. I had the pleasure of talking about persuasion in science opinion writing this morning at the AAAS meeting. I’m posting my […]

This weekend I’m partying away at the AAAS meeting (which really means, I’m frantically working with a caffeine IV drip installed, but what else is new?)! But the links keep coming, because SCIENCE!   Monday: Giving C section babies a wipe with vaginal microbes. ow.ly/XTzz8 Interested to see what long term effects will be. We’ve got […]

Anyone coming to the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting this weekend in Washington, DC? I’ll be there, reporting, writing furiously, and sometime in there, giving a talk! Opinion Writing: Strategies for Persuasive Public Communication Monday, February 15, 2016: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Hoover (Marriott Wardman Park) When communicating with the public about science, […]

…I got nothing. Ok, that’s not true. I have coffee. Monday: It’s bad when STEM marketing to women is sexist. “…but the answer isn’t to throw out all the pink.” ow.ly/XNngN Small bats beware! White nose affects smaller bats more. ow.ly/XNnEk Check out my links from last week! Spiders in hordes. Zika! Bed bugs! A […]

Science coverage on the Internet is always in flux. One minute I feel like I’m seeing science links galore, and the next…I’m having to really hunt them down. It also seems that my hunting grounds change over time. For a long time, I could find science to read aplenty just by scrolling through my Twitter […]

We started this week a little snowy, but that doesn’t stop the science!! Stay cozy. Grab some coffee. Sip with me. Monday: Danger, Ron Weasley. Spiders that group together in gangs of 50,000. ow.ly/Xqewu by @jgold85 New Sci! There’s a sour side to serotonin. Literally. ow.ly/Xv2iF How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a […]

We may be completely snowed under here on the East Coast, but that means, hey, you’ve got nothing to do but read some cool science links with ME! Let us begin with some coffee. Monday: Ok this is pretty cool. There’s a site that chronicles the “accidental” fossils in the architecture of DC. ow.ly/X6GcT A […]

There’s a tortoise hidden somewhere in these links. Bet you can’t find it.   Monday: A tour thru the wacky world of period-related patents. Vibrating tampons. pH monitoring! Bluetooth! ow.ly/WLT8s by @roseveleth Sad but true: In academia, people are sometimes asked to write their own letters of rec. I know I did. ow.ly/WNDi5 Ancient Rome’s […]

New year, new links! But first, coffee.   Monday: The seventh row of the periodic table is officially full. ow.ly/WyWdj A rather sweet interview with a glaciologist who ended up studying global warming on a round about way with whisky. ow.ly/WyWpg Nature has a list of their top books from 2015. I’m amused to see […]

End of year edition! I don’t tweet a lot around the holidays. It’s all end of year lists and very little new science. But here’s what I’ve got, and some of it’s still pretty awesome. First, coffee. December 21 Plesiosaurs may have swum like penguins!! Makes me absurdly happy for some reason.ow.ly/W4tAK Austin Powers bites […]