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Interview with Scientia Crastina

November 11, 2013  Filed under Blog, Featured, News, Potpourri 

I did this great interview with Olle Bergman who runs the web page Scientia Crastina, which bills itself as “communication skills for the scientists of tomorrow”. Thanks, Olle! Readers, I hope you enjoy the interview. I had fun answering the questions that Olle posed for me!

Teaching Quantum Physics to Children: Ellie the Electron

November 10, 2013  Filed under Blog, Featured, Potpourri 

Ellie the Electron is a children’s story about an electron who wants to be the star of the show. It was written by Dr. Yvette Hancock, a lecturer in Physics at the University of York. Yvette has done many outreach activities to promote physics to students (such as her Institute of Physics lecture at the […]

23 Things for Research

October 29, 2013  Filed under Blog, Featured, Potpourri 

This is a list of 23 things that you scientists should be doing to help promote your research. It provides a good list of things to be thinking about as you aim to develop your career.

To collaborate or not to collaborate?

October 29, 2013  Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing 

You hear about these stories about how ideas from young scientists are stolen by more senior scientists. (The case of Rosalind Franklin’s discovery of the X-ray crystallographic photographs of DNA being a prime one.) Yet, it is always disconcerting to read more and more stories about how people with good scientific ideas are taken advantage […]

10 grammar rules you can forget: how to stop worrying and write proper

October 6, 2013  Filed under Blog, Featured, Writing 

Jim Steenburgh sent me this article from The Guardian about “what pop music can teach you about building sentences.”

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