‘Twas but a month ago that Kate Clancy stirred up the world of science writers with her post-#scio11-post “Even when we want something, we need to hide it” (which itself was the product of #scio11 discussions weeks before).  She certainly didn’t mean to, but it set off a polite firestorm focusing on treatment of women in science and online that is frankly...

In the past month we have seen an almost unprecedented call for cuts to science and innovation programs from the new House GOP freshmen. They are young and spunky, and misguided.  There’s been calls to cripple the NIH,  demands to defund our IPCC involvement (even though they can’t get the numbers right),  and even hamstring the DOE’s Office of Science...

Remember recently when for the . . . what was it, 9th time? . . . some poor NY Times lackey got picked to write this month’s “Blogs R Ded” article? This isn’t about refuting that, because A) it’s ridonkulous, and B) Scott Rosenberg already took the pot on that one. It struck me while reading the fallout that despite how savvy, talented and productive...

It was a huge week for Tumblr. Why? Because I wrote nice things about it and why it is so important to science education and science communication! Here’s some other highlights from the Tumblr-sphere this week: Folks on Tumblr got pretty excited to hear about the supposed E.T.’s in meteorites, but when that proved to be bullshit the network really...

OMG!!! I adore and love science! I have learned landforms, mountains, volcanoes, plains and oceans. I love science because everything is real. So so many things can happen. My favorite thing about it is pretty much everything! Also without lakes and rivers I would have no water to drink. That would be outrageously horrible! – Sarah, age 7 This quote...

Last week, I posted a heartwarming little note passed on to me from my niece’s latest parent-teacher conference detailing her love for science. It was OMG-worthy. In that post I wondered aloud what I could do to make sure this 7 year-old budding scientist kept the fire of interest burning for science, and I was amazed by the response! Thank you to everyone...