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What brought you here?

03 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by sedeer in Blog

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This morning I read a wonderful post on Alex Brown’s excellent blog, Do You Speak Science?, in which he addresses the questions that people search for before landing on his blog.  I liked the idea so much that I decided to write a similar post over here at Inspiring Science.  Let me know what you think of it — if you like the idea, I might make it a (semi-)regular feature! Continue reading →

One year on!

25 Friday Jan 2013

Posted by sedeer in Blog

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animals, Bacteria, biology, blogging, evolution, Insecta, Research, science, Science communication

Today officially marks the first anniversary of Inspiring Science, and it’s been a great year!  I think I managed to make some progress towards the goals I outlined in my first post.  Over the course of the past year, I’ve learned how to make my writing more accessible and become better at engaging with non-scientists, though unfortunately I haven’t managed to write as frequently as I would have liked.  I hope I can rectify that and continue to improve those skills, but I’m also going to try to do a better job of fostering discussion over the next 12 months.  I have a few ideas about how to do that; we’ll see how well they pan out.  (If you have a suggestion, let me know!)

If you’re one of the newer readers, why not take a romp through the archives?  There’s some good stuff buried on there that doesn’t often make it  onto the “What’s popular now?” list in the sidebar.  I’ve also picked five posts from the past year which I wish had received more attention and listed them below; I hope you’ll enjoy them.

  • Natural selection: On fitness
  • Social wasps are specialists at recognizing faces
  • Of moss and micro-arthropods
  • We still don’t know how birds navigate
  • Gene expression: shape matters

With that said, I look forward to another year of writing about science; thanks for reading, commenting and generally keeping me company on this adventure!  If you have any suggestions about what I could do differently or better (or what I’m doing well) please leave a comment so I can learn and improve. 🙂

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