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April 24th, 2012 | Category: science
I was lucky enough to have my friend Khalil Cassimally interview me a couple of weeks ago for The SA Incubator, a Scientific American blog that focuses on the next generation of science communicators. Now, the interview is online! Have a read whilst it’s still hot. Or even when it’s not. I doubt it’s going away any time soon.
The interview goes into details about my science communication niche, podcasting, geekiness and my plans for the future. More information about what I think: just [...]
» Continue reading “My Scientific American Incubator interview”
March 26th, 2012 | Category: science
If that title doesn’t draw you in, I don’t know what will, honestly. It’s not misleading, either.
The lovely folks over at TBA - Ben Vernel, Tess Armstrong and Andy Balloch – were kind enough to invite me on their excellent podcast to discuss all things science… and quite a few things not-science. I share some amazing science-themed pick-up lines (which I’ve never, ever used, I promise you), Tess asks me about random topics, Ben just sits there being a bit of [...]
» Continue reading “Science, rectal mishaps and pick-up lines – my guest appearance on TBA”
February 27th, 2011 | Category: scienceI realised a few days ago that I barely do any pure science communication on this blog, which saddened me a little given that I’m so passionate about it. I’m all talk and no… non-talk.
So, I’ve resolved to blog more about pure science, which will probably come out as a regular series of Friday posts. But what I want to know from you guys is: what do you want to me to blog about? Sure, I have heaps of ideas – extremophiles, archaea, awesome proteins, genome evolution, metabolism, etc. [...]
» Continue reading “The juice of science communication needs to be squeezed out of me”
February 22nd, 2011 | Category: scienceNext week begins the 2nd year of my Bachelor of Science degree and I must say, I’m excited. You see, this is the first semester of uni I’ll have undertaken so far that is only comprised of biology subjects: last year I took breadth in music and philosophy, as well as the requisite pure chemistry background for 2nd and 3rd year biochemistry, and a geology/cosmology-based subject.
I was going to be taking Communicating Science and Technology as a breadth subject this semester, but it clashed badly with a [...]
» Continue reading “Hold onto your pipettes, ’cause this semester just got real”
February 14th, 2011 | Category: scienceToday’s science link is the Student Voices blog.
Student Voices is a student-run blog hosted by Nature Education (affiliated with one of the world’s top science journals, Nature), where undergraduate science students write about and discuss science in the news, emerging research and the intersection of science, culture and politics.
As I’ve repeatedly said, science communication practice by students of science is incredibly important in order to acclimatize them to discussing and explaining the wonders of science to others. The more students that do this the better, [...]
» Continue reading “Monday Science Link – Student Voices at Nature Education (and some exciting news!)”
February 7th, 2011 | Category: scienceI’ve been so busy at the moment, preparing for university, reading, listening to music, exercising, indulging the Doctor Who-obsessed part of my brain… that I haven’t done a Monday Science Link in a while. And I’m still busy, so here’s a non-standard one.
Ed Yong runs the excellent science communication blog Not Exactly Rocket Science and a short while ago he put out a lovely list of science blogs that he believes everyone should read. As it turns out, the list was completely composed of female-authored [...]
» Continue reading “Monday Science Link – Ed Yong’s favourite (female) science bloggers”
January 21st, 2011 | Category: scienceThink back to your high school days: how many of your schoolmates were really passionate about science, be it physics, chemistry or biology? Did anyone really care about those subjects, or did they do them because they were forced to by the school or because they needed them to get a higher Year 12 score? The answer is probably “nobody”. It’s rare to see a lot of kids (in my personal experience) actively excited about doing science at high school, seeing themselves in a career in science after [...]
» Continue reading “In2science Peer Mentoring – get kids interested in science at school!”
January 18th, 2011 | Category: scienceOkay, it’s not Monday, but I’m busy, so this sub-par (in terms of presentation, not link quality) linkage post will have to do – I know how much you all love your science links.
Elliott Sober is the Has Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and has written extensively on the philosophy of science, with a particular focus on the philosophy of evolutionary biology. It’s a fascinating field, but for those without journal access (like I was for many years before [...]
» Continue reading “Monday Science Link – Elliott Sober’s papers on the philosophy of evolution”
January 10th, 2011 | Category: scienceToday’s science link is the YouTube channel of QualiaSoup.
Science and critical thinking communication can be tough through the medium of text. Sure, you can have a few pictures in there now and again, but the majority of the information must be absorbed through people sitting there and actively reading what has been written. While that’s legitimate and all well and good, it’s obvious that most people would prefer to watch a visually-stimulating and entertaining video than read text, no matter how well written it is.
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» Continue reading “Monday Science Link – QualiaSoup’s excellent science communication videos”
January 3rd, 2011 | Category: scienceOkay, I don’t really have a Monday Science Link for you this week, unfortunately – I’ve been a bit busy with personal and work-related things. The latest Carnival of Evolution should keep you occupied though in the substantial, non-comedic science stakes.
However, I would like to share these excellent images my friend Dave (@NomDuJour on Twitter) recently created. Are you all familiar with the extreme advertising meme? Well, you’re about to be, so hold onto your telomeres.
[Images below the fold, as they contain [...]
» Continue reading “Monday Science Link – Biological extreme advertising (NSFW)”
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Homologous Legs is the blog of Jack Scanlan, an Australian biology student who has a serious problem with creationists, intelligent design proponents and anyone else who misrepresents evolutionary biology or science in general.
He uses this blog to post news about the intelligent design/evolution "war", science communication in biology and chemistry, and mostly coherent thoughts from his scattered, music-loving brain. Contact
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