I know it’s not real by any stretch of the imagination, but isn’t there a far more reasonable explanation than aliens in this short bit of Doctor Who? (It starts …

I’m at Subtle Technologies this weekend. It’s a festival combining art and science, with an underlying theme. This year’s theme is light, so the talks are about ways in which …

My department is celebrating its 100th birthday with a symposium this week. One of the highlights of today’s talks was this snippet on lab safety from Marian Packham, who was …

It just occurred to me that I’m going to have to learn how to put references in my thesis. I don’t have EndNote, but I have free institutional access to …

To close this series of posts, a summary of the full collaborative discussion about the things everyone should know about science, from online suggestions to in-person interactive activities to panel …

I finally found time to finish this. This is the second to last installment, covering the panel discussion about things everyone should know about science, held at SciBarCamp. The last …