Guest post 4! Don't just assume you should know

Today I’m very proud to feature Ivonne Pena at SciAm today, telling us some important things about context. Many people just assume that others know what a syllabus is, how to get around, etc. But when you are here in academia from a foreign country, it is not so simple. Head over and check it […]

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Guest Post 2: Automatic Othering

Over at SciAm Blogs today, we’ve already got the second guest post up. Hermitage is there to tell us some uncomfortable truths about diversity in academia. She’s a got a great post up, make sure to head over and check it out.

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Want to Spread SCIENCE!? Help us get to GeekGirlCon!

As you may know, I and a bunch of fabulous sciencey people got permission this year to set up a DIY Science Zone at GeekGirlCon! We’ll be making fossils out of coffee grounds, neurons out of pipe cleaners, extracting DNA, genetic taste testing, dancing raisins, and showing the people there that scientists are fun, fantastic […]

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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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