Let’s get to it.
Monday:
Blame the mailman? Less likely than you think, explains @carlzimmerow.ly/10smaJ
So excited for this @sci4thepeopleepisode on how the military influenced…our FOOD! ow.ly/10smgu
A conversation with @HopeJahren“Science is desperate. It needs to believe itself honorable.” ow.ly/10spjy
These heads were built for ramming, and that’s just what they’ll do… @SarahZielinski on sperm whale heads.ow.ly/10spyP
10 years since “An Inconvenient Truth” Where are we now? By @SumnerScienceMake sure to look at tabs on the top!ow.ly/10sqyn
How do you test how much drug gets into a pregnant woman without…testing the woman? Modeling! ow.ly/10sqLB by @Ilovebraaains
Cutting off stress-induced depression before it starts. Studies in lab mice with ketamine. ow.ly/10sroM by @KatieMCollette
Next time you say “I have a theory…” you probably DON’T. Great explanation of the misconception. ow.ly/10sve9 by @carlzimmer
Tuesday:
We probably cannot eat our way out of the lionfish problem. 🙁 ow.ly/10wNtH
By @BethMarieMole, stop buying soaps w/triclosan. Here are ALL THE REASONS WHY. ow.ly/10wNIl
Sugar isn’t great. We’ve known that for a while. Here’s why people focused on fat.ow.ly/10wNY6 Human side of science is ugly.
AND NOW: An important aside from @JaquelynGill
I just got yet another invitation to a webinar on responding to harassment. When are we going to start offering workshops for harassers?
Where are the workshops teaching them what harassment is, how to avoid it, and what to do if they experience inappropriate feelings?
Where are the workshops for chairs, administrators, deans, and Title IX coordinators on reporter-centered handling of harassment cases?
Where are the workshops on creating a lab, departmental, field, and disciplinary culture that discourages harassment?
When are we going to start approaching harassment as something preventable, rather than something to train women to react to?
When are we going to ask men to do their fair share of the emotional heavy lifting involved in dealing with harassment culture?
When are we going to start talking about harassment as something that happens to more than just white, heterosexual, cis-gender women?
Is there even one anti-harassment workshop led for men, by men? Why not? You want to be an ally? Start there.
Harassment. Will. Not. Stop. If. You. Only. Talk. To. Women. About. Harassment.
Jacquelyn GillSoylent is slimfast, but for BOYS. How food tech is men rebranding what women have been doing for AGES.ow.ly/10wOaI
How reporters use Facebook and Twitter, by @ShipLives ow.ly/10xcn1 wld be esp interesting to see comparison with everyone else.
The subtle ways gender gaps persist in science. ow.ly/10xcF7
How does chocolate cover a bonbon so evenly? Fluid dynamics. Delicious fluid dynamics ow.ly/10xcRZ
Commenters are jerks to women and POC, & the Guardian is on it. As @roseveleth says, when will ppl do something? ow.ly/10zvWE
Wednesday:
I wish I’d had these in school! Sewable circuits! Might have to get some. For SCIENCE. ow.ly/10zzUz ow.ly/i/iphLX
Genetic Xmen may walk among us, resistant to deadly mutations. But then again, maybe they don’t? ow.ly/10zDlC by @thsaey
Getting rats to vape THC under conditions more like those in humans.ow.ly/10zDMY by @KatieMCollette
The proteins that can make cancer cells move. ow.ly/10zHhK by @Ilovebraaains
An @ACSReactions video on the delicious delicious science of COFFEE.ow.ly/10zHU7 mmmmmm.
When there are hundreds of authors on a paper, what does scientific authorship mean? ow.ly/10zY3v from @RetractionWatch
An appropriate episode from @Gastropodcast on a day when I need my coffee… listening to caffeine!ow.ly/10D9TL
In which @carlzimmer‘s daughter does a science fair project, and he realizes how much parental involvement it takes.ow.ly/10ChNW
Thursday:
Did you know we lost millions of turkeys last year to flu? Did you know it could happen again? By @marynmckow.ly/10ChVn
As greenhouse gases increase, bee pollen is beecoming bee junk food.ow.ly/10Clpd by @susanmilius
Everything that’s gone wrong with selling a women’s libido pill (so far).ow.ly/10CvHu
Trade animal fats for vegetable fats? The question still isn’t settled. Good points here on a new/old study. ow.ly/10CJqv
A neat new study on how things go viral.ow.ly/10CxTC I wonder what its metrics will be. 🙂
“Women may keep our colleges running but the American university is still an old boys’ club.” ow.ly/10Cy1B
Scientists have studied how the whales got their song. By @Protohedgehogow.ly/10FPpe
There’s a quiet hierarchy to mental illnesses. Important points here.ow.ly/10CzXa
The marketing of mindfulness.ow.ly/10Avdr
Friday:
Hey my voice memo about data-tracking got on the end of @roseveleth‘s pet-free future podcast! ow.ly/10ESgZ Love this ep, too.
“science doesn’t have to be complicated and resource-intensive.” Esp science for kids. ow.ly/4mJniu From @orzelc
After a retraction for fake data, other sci’s re-did the study and found…the hypothesis was correct after all.ow.ly/10ESuS
The dubious promise of anti-rape technology. ow.ly/10FM5g
When bats hunt, they plan two bugs ahead! So cool. http://ow.ly/10FMGx by @Inkfish
Amazing. Trees can trade carbon…via the fungi in their roots. http://ow.ly/10FMYYby @edyong209
four current science fair participants respond to @carlzimmer‘s queasiness.http://ow.ly/10FV1K
Citizen Scientists Chart the Pacific’s Great Whales by @jgold85http://ow.ly/4mHDnm
