SciWrite alumni featured on Bora Z’s Scientific American Incubator
In a few months, the MIT Science Writing program will have its ten-year anniversary. Last week, just in time for Thanksgiving, the inexhaustible Bora Zivkovic — the force of nature behind the SciAm...
View ArticleGreetings from SciO12…
Mid-January is among my favorite times of the year because it’s when the annual ScienceOnline conference is held in Research Triangle, NC. For those of you who don’t know about the conference,...
View ArticleA chance to discuss sexism & misogyny in science communication: DNLee, Bora,...
If you’re reading this blog, chances are good that you already know the backstory for this: Last week, an editor at Biology Online asked Danielle N. Lee, a zoology postdoc and well-known blogger, to...
View ArticleUPDATED: Gossip & Scandal & Shutdown Shutdown & Obamacare
Gossip & scandal galore in science blogging What a week. I hardly know where to begin. Let’s try one conventional structure: reverse chronological order. Bora Zivkovic, who has built and run the...
View ArticleHuman Evolution at Dmanisi, plus More Scandal and Gossip in Science Blogging
Human evolution: What the Dmanisi fossils tell us about who we are The history of human paleontology can be viewed as a relentless battle between lumpers and splitters. Wikipedia claims Charles...
View ArticleMore on Sexual Harassment. Also, Billions of Earth-like Planets
Sexual Harassment and Science Writing The recent events involving sexual harassment and former SciAm uber-blogger Bora Zivkovic are no longer dominating science blogs. But they have not vanished from...
View ArticlePost Removed: Yet More On Sexual Harassment
PLOS BLOGS has determined that the “On Science Blogs” post that had occupied this page violated one of the key principles we hold for our blog network, specifically, the following language which is...
View ArticleScience at the Sochi Winter Olympics, plus the Latest on Gene Editing
The Sochi Olympics: Geology, ecology, and climate Something I’ve been wondering, and Bob Costas & Matt Lauer & Co. haven’t been telling me, is why the devil Sochi, a summer resort town? Well,...
View ArticleProstate cancer screening dispute, microbiome hype
Once more, screening for prostate cancer It’s pretty much conventional wisdom among the experts that routine prostate cancer screening for the prostate-specific antigen can cause more harm than good....
View ArticleRIP ScienceOnline, cave art in Indonesia is as old as European cave art, how...
This just in: RIP ScienceOnline (#scioX) ScienceOnline, which for the past few years has run the small annual meeting in North Carolina that brought together a disparate bunch of scientists and science...
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