By Bill Sullivan Scientists have been surprisingly slow to embrace Twitter and other forms of social media. Even today, a certain…
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Public Science Communication Yes, I’m A Scientist on Twitter. Stop Judging Me.
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Mentorship Predatory Publishers Want to Write Your Autobiography!
Yes, you read that title correctly. Oasis Publishing Group Ltd. recently sent me an email that offered to write my autobiography. The…
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Public Science Communication Top 6 Human Evolution Discoveries of 2018
Here we are, once again, at the end of a calendar year filled with lots of exciting news in the field of…
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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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Education It is unethical to teach evolution without confronting racism and sexism
On November 19, 2018, Holly Dunsworth wrote the essay below and posted it on her blog, The Mermaid’s Tale. This piece was…
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Community Engagement An objective-driven long-term initiative to communicate fundamental science to various target audiences – a case study in fruit flies
Communicating scientific research to the public including relevant decision makers is important in order to build trust and to sustain a political…
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Community Engagement Peter Hotez: Defending Vaccines
Back in the 1980s, when I was an MD/PhD student in New York, I learned a lot about biochemistry and molecular…
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Community Engagement The Art of Service Design in Science
To whom are you accountable? This deceptively simple question is one worth asking if you’re a researcher. This week we share the…
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Mentorship Is It Time for Pre-Publication Peer Review to Die?
Pre-publication peer review seems to be as old as science communication itself. The idea is simple: qualified experts will examine your…
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Community Engagement The Nexus of Data and Community: How Partnership Can Close Achievement Gaps
States across the U.S. (like our home state of Indiana) are making strides to better understand and close the racial achievement gaps…
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Community Engagement How to communicate basic research in schools – a case study using Drosophila
The Manchester Fly Facility maintains an objective-driven, long-term science communication initiative which started in 2011 and promotes the importance of fundamental biomedical…
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Community Engagement Power to the Patients: Co-design of Community-based Research
According to a 2015 statistic, the leading causes of death among adolescents in the US are unintentional accidents, suicide, and homicide. However…