A colleague asked me for a list of blogs that next year’s science communication MSc students might like to read. I figured the only way to share this information was in a blogpost. Warning: there is no such thing as a reading list of science blogs, you need to explore for yourself. These are just … Continue reading »
Posted in July 2010 …
Thinking outside the SpaceDino
This Dinosaur resides in Crystal Palace, not outer space This extends my piece on Comment is Free. Science minister David Willetts recently gave a speech to the Royal Institution. He was asked a question about how he would work effectively with schools and young people (another minister’s brief). He started off well before putting his … Continue reading »
Science on teh internets: an interview with Drs Mendel & Riesch
Having run a series of short interviews with UK-based science bloggers, I’ve also talked to a couple of colleagues who are developing research on the ‘bad science’ blogging community. Jon Mendel is a geographer at Dundee with a background in studying networks, virtual war and security. Interested in how new media are functioning or not … Continue reading »
UK science blogger interview: Imran Khan
Imran Khan is the Director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), the UK’s leading advocate for science and engineering policy. CaSE are supported by members from academia, industry, learned societies, and charities. Imran himself comes from a background of science communication and policy, having written for the Guardian, New Scientist and World Health … Continue reading »
UK science blogger interview: Mun Keat Looi
Mun-Keat Looi is a Science Writer at the Wellcome Trust and one of the editors of the Trust’s blog. The Wellcome Trust blog aims to tell some of the many stories about the wide variety of people, projects and events that the Trust funds. Everything and everybody from new PhD students to senior scientists, genetics … Continue reading »
UK science blogger interview: Daniel MacArthur
After completing his PhD in 2008 in Australia, Daniel moved to the UK to take up a position at the Sanger Institute, the largest genomics research institute in the country. His day job revolves around the analysis of DNA sequence data from projects like the 1000 Genomes Project, and figuring out ways of using these … Continue reading »
UK science blogger interview: Jennifer Rohn
Jennifer Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London. In her spare time, she is also a novelist, freelance science writer and communicator, broadcaster, sci-lit-art pundit and editor of the science-culture webzine LabLit.com. She has blogged at Mind The Gap on Nature Network since 2007. Jenny leaves reporting of the facts and figures of … Continue reading »
Interviews with science bloggers
On the run up to the science blogging event I’m chairing on Thursday, I thought I’d do a series of short interviews with four UK science bloggers who, in addition to our panel, reflect some key areas in the UK science blogosphere. I’ve started off with the same question to all of them: do you … Continue reading »
The evidence "badger"
I’ve just realised that people will be coming here from my profile on Normblog. So here’s a quick re-post from Flickr which at least includes a picture of a toy. Meet the evidence badger. Ok, it’s a cow. This is a bit of an in-joke, which I apologise for. But explaining lets me raise a … Continue reading »
“Levels” of engagement
On Tuesday, I ran a couple of workshops at an event called “the engaging researcher”. This is a summary of what I said. I was initially asked to talk about “levels of engagement”. I was quick to nip that title in the bud because I don’t think levels are productive way of thinking about science … Continue reading »
