Found while foraging (November 6, 2013)

06 Wednesday Nov 2013

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biology, gender, links, performance poetry, poetry, Popular science, science, science and society, Science communication, Science in Society, Species, video, World War Z

It’s November! That’s not usually an exciting time for me (Helsinki is cold, dark, and wet in November), but this year is an exception. In just under three weeks, I’ll be moving to another continent and starting to write full time! I’m really excited about the change and eager to get started with the next phase of my life…and I’m also very busy with the process of getting there, so Inspiring Science will be more quiet than usual over the next few weeks. Hopefully I’ll manage to find the time to post something, but in the meantime here are some tidbits to tide you over. (If that’s not enough for you, have a gander through some of the old posts or previous linkfests.) As always, feel free to add more links in the comments!
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Found while foraging (September 23, 2013)

23 Monday Sep 2013

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Accumulating Glitches, biology, links, microbiome, music, Popular science, science, science and society, Science communication, Science in Society, Scitable, sexism, Species, street art, video, World War Z

It’s been a while since my last Found while foraging. I guess I’ve been busy for the past few months and these posts have somehow fallen by the wayside. They seem to be popular, though, so I’ll make an effort to keep them up and post link collections more regularly. I’m also happy to get interesting links from readers, so send me anything you think is interesting and worth sharing. And as always, though, feel free to add more links in the comments!
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Found while foraging (July 3, 2013)

03 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Accumulating Glitches, biology, fungus, links, microbiome, Popular science, science, science and society, Science in Society, Scitable, sexism, street art, video

I’m offline this week as I’ve retreated to one of my favourite places in the world for a holiday. I was too busy to prepare a post before leaving, but fortunately it’s about time for another Found while foraging. Hopefully this post will be automatically published on Wednesday while I’m happily reading in front of a fire in a lovely cottage unburdened by the trappings of modernity — power, plumbing, and internet. I’ve never pre-scheduled a post for publication before, so I hope it works. I won’t link to many Scitable posts this time, but do pop over and have a look anyway; there’s some great stuff on there. As always, though, feel free to add more links in the comments!
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I’ve been interviewed!

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

Posted by sedeer in Blog, Science communication

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I’m thrilled to let you know that I’ve been interviewed on the Scientific American blog network! The SA Incubator posts interviews of “young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters”. I’ve read a couple of the interviews over the last year and was hoping to get interviewed one day, so I was very excited when I got an email last week from Khalil Cassimally inviting me for an interview. I really enjoyed answering the questions and I hope you’ll enjoy what I had to say. It’s also a great chance for me to get more exposure, so I’m very grateful for the opportunity.

On another subject, I tried something different in my most recent post on Accumulating Glitches and I’d love to hear what you think — what works for you, what doesn’t, how I could do better. The post is about ants which practice agriculture and what they might think of the way we farm…

Hauskaa Juhannusta to those of you in Finland! If anyone will be at the WCSJ 2013 meeting in Helsinki next week, let me know and we can try to meet up!

Three things to look for in science reporting

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

Posted by sedeer in Science communication

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science, science and society, Science communication, Science in Society

Some time ago I shared some of my thoughts on science communication, including the importance of learning “to approach issues critically, to question and to reason, [so they would] have the wherewithal to challenge fixed beliefs and undermine authority”. I’ve also written about things like cognitive dissonance and how our social environment can shape the way we conduct research or interpret the results. In this post, I’d like to highlight a few of the flaws you might come across in scientific research and what you should look out for when you hear about a new study. I’ve picked out just three things you can check to help reassure yourself that a science story is on sound footing, but I hope people will chime in with more suggestions in the comments!
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Found while foraging (May 28, 2013)

28 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by sedeer in Foraging

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Accumulating Glitches, ants, dinosaurs, Dyson sphere, evolution, music, neuroscience, Popular science, science, science and society, Science in Society, Scitable, Species, synesthesia, vampire

It’s time for another Found while foraging! I’m going to do things slightly differently this time. Instead of just sharing various tidbits I’ve come across online since last time, I’m going to focus on science-related stuff to celebrate the recent launch of my new blog, Accumulating Glitches, as part of Nature’s Scitable network. I’d also like to take the opportunity to also point you towards some of my favourite posts from the other new blogs in the relaunched network. I hope you’ll find them enlightening and entertaining! As always, though, feel free to add more links in the comments!
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