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A research project is studying whether scientist selfies influence public opinion of scientists. What does that mean for a non-selfie-taker like me?

What if you could be someone else for a day? Well, you can’t. You’re stuck with being you. But you can experience Twitter as someone else, and that’s almost as …

I’ve had a productive Saturday: I spent two hours in a bookstore, I replaced three violin strings, and I deleted my LinkedIn profile. The latter might seem surprising for someone …

A few things have been bothering me about the way that science communication, especially online, has changed over the past few years. THING 1 Twitter. We created a monster. On …

And I’m back. That was not a very long blog break, but a necessary one. During the blog break I didn’t stop writing: I have several thousands words of insecure …

There’s a group on Facebook called “Six Degrees of Separation”. It was started by writer Steve Jackson, as research for a novel he was writing. In his book he explored …