Creative Writing
“This sounds more like manipulation than science.†“Hey, I’m just looking out for you as your supervisor.â€
Multimedia
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Legal Moves
#538 Nobels and Astrophysics
This week we start with this year's physics Nobel Prize awarded to Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz and finish with a discussion of the Nobel Prizes as a way to award and highlight important science. Are they still relevant? When science breakthroughs are built on the backs of hundreds -- and sometimes thousands -- of people's hard work, how do you pick just three to highlight? Join host Rachelle Saunders and astrophysicist, author,…
Student Confidence
Inktober 2019 – week 3
Continuing with this year’s #Inktober project: A Field Guide to Flying Trilobites. Here’s where to find Week 1, Week 2, and Week 4. You can also follow along on my Instagram and Twitter, @FlyingTrilobite. “The common spotted red-elytra variant of *Coccinella trilopunctata* proliferated across Europe after the treaty was signed. By the divine, or a splicing artist no one was ever really sure.†— from A Field Guide to Flying Trilobites ‬ “Discovery of several…
Mutant fruit flies
A cool new article is out in eLife about fruit fly mutants: more specifically the yellow ones. It’s open access, plus there’s a digest explaining what the team found in more detail for those non-geneticists out there. Check it out! The yellow gene influences Drosophila male mating success through sex comb melanization
Briefly Explain
Let’s hope the teacher is impressed by the amount of writing I’ve given. Surely that’s a signal for quality!
Law of Bad Timing
“Professor, can you come touch my test?†“Okay, I can collect it if you want.†“No! I just want to stimulate my brain to think the test is over, so I can get some better ideas.â€
#537 Science Journalism, Hold the Hype
Everyone's seen a piece of science getting over-exaggerated in the media. Most people would be quick to blame journalists and big media for getting in wrong. In many cases, you'd be right. But there's other sources of hype in science journalism. and one of them can be found in the humble, and little-known press release. We're talking with Chris Chambers about doing science about science journalism, and where the hype creeps in. Related links: The…
Inktober 2019 – week 2
Continuing with this year’s #Inktober project: A Field Guide to Flying Trilobites. See Week 1 here. You can also follow along on my Instagram and Twitter, @FlyingTrilobite. The “Maple Bumastus†is a jellybean-shaped tree-dwelling trilobite that chews through the stems of autumn leaves and rides them to the ground. A low, droning “wheeee†sound may be heard. During the final hours of the Fossil Wars, the Bruce Peninsula Battalion survivors all reported the same apparition.20…
