This year’s Science Online London was probably my favourite so far in terms of the variety in the programme. There were sessions about communicating science using the web, but also …
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Beer chemistry
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenLast week, I found out about the Tumblr blog F No, Chemical Free with images of products that supposedly contain no chemicals at all.It reminded me of a story from …
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Outreach & engagementScholarly communicationScience Everywhere
Colin Firth’s first scientific paper
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenColin Firth is having a pretty good year. First he won an Oscar for the King’s Speech, and now he also has a paper out in Current Biology! When guest …
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To continue the previous post, here’s a summary of some tips for organising science unconferences. I covered about a third or half of this in my SciBarCamb session, but I …
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A history of science unconferences
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenAt the end of SciBarCamb, just before I completely lost my mind from exhaustion, I gave a talk about science unconferences. It started with a bit of history, and ended …
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Community & eventsOutreach & engagementScience Communication
SciBarCamb and reclaiming the word boffins
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenI’m not a morning person. There are only two things that make me get up on time: fear that everything will go horribly wrong if I don’t (catching flights, last …