Even though Kate and I are en route to Montreal, dodging Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents, through the miracle of post scheduling, you get your Thursday Baby Blogging. To get around the problems posed by her new mobility, we’ll fall back on a classic: the sleeping-baby picture: If you look at the file name, you’ll see… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 080609
PNAS: Cush Copeland, High School Teacher
(On July 16, 2009, I asked for volunteers with science degrees and non-academic jobs who would be willing to be interviewed about their careers paths, with the goal of providing young scientists with more information about career options beyond the pursuit of a tenure-track faculty job that is too often assumed as a default. This… Continue reading PNAS: Cush Copeland, High School Teacher
PNAS: Lucy Rogers, Freelance Journalist and Science Writer
(On July 16, 2009, I asked for volunteers with science degrees and non-academic jobs who would be willing to be interviewed about their careers paths, with the goal of providing young scientists with more information about career options beyond the pursuit of a tenure-track faculty job that is too often assumed as a default. This… Continue reading PNAS: Lucy Rogers, Freelance Journalist and Science Writer
Project for Non-Academic Science Update
I’m going to be off at Worldcon for the next several days, but fear not, the blog will still be active. I have scheduled non-academic scientist interviews to post every weekday while I’m gone. There are two posts each for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday, so you’ll have plenty of non-traditional career paths to… Continue reading Project for Non-Academic Science Update
Links for 2009-08-05
Large Hadron Collider Struggles, Adding to the Mysteries of Life – NYTimes.com “Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around a 17-mile underground racetrack have mysteriously lost their ability to operate at high energies. Some physicists are deserting the European project, at least temporarily, to work at a smaller, rival machine across… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-05
Where I’ll Be at Worldcon
The Worldcon program has been posted, but only as a giant, confusing PDF. I was getting cross-eyed trying to figure things out, so I ended up creating my own blank grid sheets, and making notes on those. The following is a by-no-means comprehensive list of things I think look interesting enough to attend. There are… Continue reading Where I’ll Be at Worldcon
Seminar Food Poll
Last week, Sean raised the critical academic question of when to serve food associated with a seminar talk. He did not, however, address the more important question, namely what to serve at a seminar talk. So I’ll do it, scientific-like: Which of the following items should be served at an event associated with an academic… Continue reading Seminar Food Poll
Links for 2009-08-04
Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch – NYTimes.com Some decent points, but as with all NY Times Magazine articles, it’s crawling with annoying class assumptions. There’s a passing acknowledgment that the decline in cooking is related to the increase in hours worked, and then it’s back to somewhat over-written laments for idyllic days gone… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-04
Science Blogging: The New Science Journalism?
I’m a late addition to a Sunday panel at Worldcon: Science Blogging – The New Science Journalism? Touted as a new way of reaching the public, has science blogging matched its initial promise? Has it caused more problems than it solves? Well? What do you all think?
What’s Your TED Talk?
Last weekend, I was talking with Ethan Zuckerman at a party, and we talked a little bit about the TED conferences and similar things. A few days later, there was an editorial in Nature suggesting that scientists could learn a lot from TED: [P]erhaps the most critical key to success is the style of the… Continue reading What’s Your TED Talk?