Micro-museums, cabinets of curiosities
On the subject of natural history museums changing for the future, this update from the Simons Foundation is fascinating: “Science Sandbox: The changing face...
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New excavations starting at Rising Star, an article pointing to some ways to follow the expedition
Newsweek is running a great story by Meghan Bartels about our renewed excavations in the Rising Star cave over the next month, and the strategies the team is...
How can scientific conferences make more of a difference in the cities where they meet?
I’d like to draw attention to this effort from the American Association for the Advancement of Science to make an impact on local schools where they have the...
Theodore Roosevelt on human evolution
Once upon a time, the U.S. had a President who could write articles about human evolution: Theodore Roosevelt!
Science Cafe, Tuesday February 4
I’ll be participating in a fun science outreach event this Tuesday, the Science Cafe at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery:
Wellcome Trust funds public engagement
The Wellcome Trust, a major funder of biomedical research in the UK, has made a new 4.5 million pound investment in public engagement, as explained by Clare ...
The brains behind an exhibition
Sara Perry writing on Savage Minds, this time with an interesting historical story about the Wellcome Collection’s recent “Brains: Mind as Matter” exhibition...
Wisconsin Catholic schools will no longer visit Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
A local story with some import for science education in Wisconsin: “Catholic Diocese prohibits field trips to Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery”.
Scientists' reasons for engagement with the media
Matt Shipman comments on why scientists choose to talk to journalists: “Seniority, Self-Confidence Predict Whether Scientists Will Work With Media”. He refer...
"Can you help me with my report?"
Lately, I’ve been getting an increasing number of e-mail requests from middle school and high school students, whose teachers have assigned them projects tha...
Blogging in biological anthropology profile
Nature’s “SpotOn” feature has interviewed University of Rhode Island biological anthropologist Holly Dunsworth about her social media mastery: “Social Media ...
Public engagement and science productivity
I was pointed yesterday to a paper by Pablo Jensen and colleagues on the relationship between outreach activity and academic productivity Jensen:engage:2008:
Education, not television, for science participation
Alice Bell comments on the non-interactivity of the most common means of science popularization: “Science on TV: it’s not dumb, but it could be smarter”.
Re-prioritizing faster communication
Two experts on social policy from the London School of Economics comment on the importance of blogging and public outreach for academics, in an interview rep...
Darwin Day events, 2012
We have lots of biology events going on here for the Darwin Day celebration this week, with the theme of “Unnatural History”. Here’s the really cool poster, ...
In the lab of Shakhashiri
Nature this week profiles Hoffman:Shakhashiri:2012 my University of Wisconsin-Madison colleague Bassam Shakhashiri, now president of the American Chemical So...
Blogs rank high in online education
This morning I read a notice from our Division of Continuing Studies, pointing to how their online resource library had received more than one million visits...
How to blog for your lab
Christie Wilcox makes a case that every lab should be doing science outreach on social media: “Social media for scientists Part 1: It’s our job, and Part 2: ...
Changing how academia works
An interesting conversation has emerged over the last few weeks on several economics and legal blogs, usefully encapsulated by Kim Krawiec at The Faculty Lou...
Public impact
Alice Bell on public engagement for social scientists and humanists: “Being professional about ‘impact’.”
Blogging archaeology
Following up on Nicolas Laracuente’s Storify collections of tweets from the SAA meetings, I wanted to point to his compilation from the Blogging Archaeology ...
Science outreach: when it's too big to fail
Stephen Strauss writes about science outreach efforts:
How to blog, get tenure and prosper: A very useful engine
This is part 2 of my four-part series on blogging and tenure. In the last installment, I mentioned the kinds of motivations that might drive a tenure-track ...
How to blog, get tenure and prosper: Starting the blog
This is the first of a series on blogging and tenure. Each installment covers a different portion of the tenure process, from starting and establishing the t...