Interview with Steffanie Strathdee, author of The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug Bill Sullivan In…
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post Turning Terror into a Scientific Memoir
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post What Scientists Can Learn from Stand-Up Comedians
Can scientists be trained to do comedy? We really didn’t know if it would work. In January of 2016, a small group…
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post Stephanie Ryan: My Journey from Science Fan to Children’s Book Author
I am a scientist, and I want to start with how my love of science originated because that is how I got…
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post How Archduke Ferdinand Affected Grant Funding: The Tight Link Between Science and History
Science lives or dies based on funding. These words are no surprise to any principal investigator or lab leader who has ever…
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post Tips on Using Science Twitter During COVID-19
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, many scientists have taken to social media platforms, particularly Twitter. Social media can facilitate research…
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post Communicating Vaccine Science with Empathy
I was born just before the publication of a now-retracted study suggesting that the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine increased children’s risk…
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post ABRCMS: A conference model that brings together key members of the biomedical science pipeline
For the last several years, my primary professional organization, the American Association of Anatomists (AAA), has sent a leadership delegation to connect…
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post Using Evidence to Restructure Healthcare: Lessons for US Lawmakers from the UK
The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going…
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Public Science Communication Cultivating a new STEM audience: An exercise in communicating science
Could you explain a complex scientific concept to a fifth grader? Maybe you ARE a fifth grader, and you’re here to learn…
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post Scientists and Policymakers – Not Such Strange Bedfellows
As the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy continues to languish without a director, it becomes more important for scientists to…
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post Sexual abusers are responsible for their actions. Period.
Prominent conservative political pundit Ben Shapiro has waded into waters in which he cannot swim—human nature and sexual violence. We have invited…
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post The scientific community tells its story on #Earthday2017 #WhyIMarch
[View the story “PLOSBLOGS: #MarchforScience on April 22 #WhyIMarch #StandUpforScience” on Storify]…