Building a new normal

This is the post about Bora. And the “community” that I thought was there. There’s been other stuff going on as well. But this one is about Bora.   I warn you all that this post is very hard for me. Normally what you see here, even the longer ranting or opinion pieces on academic […]

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Science Communication: A Conversation

So a few days ago, Brian of Laelaps and I had a conversation. The conversation went like this: Sci: Somebody wrote a book where he referred to the “tone” of scienceblogs.com as being bad for science. The book is “Don’t be SUCH a scientist”. Because we are “such scientists”, as in, people who are obsessed […]

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