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Thanks for Marching
I am not sure how to measure the success of protests, but the March for Science was unquestionably heard around the world. People Marched in 600 locations around the globe to stand up for scientific...
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Science wins, keep fighting
GOOD NEWS, THE GOVERNMENT IS GONNA KEEP RUNNING TILL AT LEAST SEPTEMBER! Better news, the budget that was passed to keep the government running includes a bump in funding for NIH, and no reduction in...
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Losing a major grant funding PhD scientists
As I’m sure everyone has heard by now, the NSF is cutting the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (also known as the DDIG). This is a huge loss for scientific research in the United States. Dollar...
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The real, numbers from the March for Science
Rather than make up numbers about the number of people present at the March for Science, the scientist/organizers wanted to “Science the shit out of them”. Volunteer Kate Gage: “We really wanted to...
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Where bacteria hides
It’s fascinating how terrible we are at long term combating human pathogens. It’s kind of like wack-a-mole, when one route is eliminated another springs right up. On one hand, this is obviously a plug...
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It’s good to have lots of bad ideas
Linus Pauling, a two-time Nobel prizewinner, also gave us another important, if less well-known, dictum: that if you want to have good ideas, you must have lots of ideas and learn to throw away the bad...
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Utah Paleontologists Turn to Crowdfunding for Raptor Project
Utahraptor, 23 feet long and weighing over a ton, was one of the largest dromaeosaurs, feathered, sickle-clawed dinosaurs closely related to birds. Since its discovery in 1991, it has been the subject...
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The other side: I Love Being a Professor
Everyone I know is leaving academia. It started a few years ago with great postdocs taking alternative academic positions (head of an NSF institute, lead of a nature preserve, etc.), and has now...
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“Fits neatly inside a lizard’s cloaca”: scientists review products on Amazon
Ziploc bags can be used as snail carriers. Food containers make good little bee homes. A salad spinner makes a good PCR centrifuge. Any scientist who’s ever done field work knows that everyday...
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Want to crowdfund your science? New study hints at who is successful
A study on how to best fund your studies. Very meta. But seriously, as most governmental forms of funding are drying up, scientist are by necessity trying to figure out how to fund their research. And...
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