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2013-05-16 17:11:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I posted a bit more info about the SLAM project here, for those interested in the background story and reading the full text of our submission. 

2013-05-16 17:10:28 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Teresa Lee and I made it to the finals of the NSF Graduate Education Challenge! We would love your support, if you can take a moment to register and vote for our idea: "Training graduate students in Science Leadership and Management (SLAM)"

2013-05-04 04:27:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-13 05:04:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Blogs about chemistry tend to get a lot less traffic than those about psychology, but I think this is still solid advice. 

2013-04-13 05:01:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Wibbly wobbly airy-wairy...stuff

When air blows past an obstacle, intricate and beautiful vortices can form. When ocean winds blow past islands, the beauty is palpable. And when this is seen from space, well, it's phenomenal.

2013-02-18 18:53:57 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

A well made infographic to demonstrate a surprising trend. 

2013-02-18 18:49:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-01-25 01:46:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-01-25 01:37:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

A chilling story. The memory of these students is definitely still alive today in Berkeley chemistry.

2013-01-24 04:20:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-01-17 04:20:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Awesome idea! For anyone in science education, trying having kids "bling out" their PPE. 

2012-12-14 22:36:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-11-13 00:57:00 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

+Annie Ma-Weaver I have a feeling you will get a kick out of these. 

2012-11-06 23:10:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"When the public asks, “Did climate change cause this?” they are asking a confused question. It’s like asking, “Did steroids cause the home run Barry Bonds hit on May 12, 2006?” There’s no way to know whether Bonds would have hit the home run without steroids. But who cares? Steroids mean more home runs. That’s what matters."

2012-11-06 23:04:30 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-10-24 00:04:15 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Whales making human sounds... the next YouTube trend after we get tired of talking cats? 

2012-08-16 00:37:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-08-06 19:15:08 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2012-08-02 20:01:36 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-07-17 05:09:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-07-17 05:07:13 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-06-16 22:52:07 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-06-16 22:15:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-06-10 00:03:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I keep most of my important information in google docs; it turns out that Berkeley Police does the same thing!

2012-06-08 05:39:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Interesting take on the relationship between scientists and science journalists by Soren Wheeler. Sometimes I feel annoyed by cutesy endings and personal anecdotes, but I agree that they come from good intentions.
+Helen Chappell  

2012-06-05 05:18:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

What a crazy story... these people have to bathe their child in poisonous water, and the police are more concerned that someone took a photo of it. 

2012-05-31 18:08:15 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Very interesting look at post-PhD career choices across scientific disciplines (by Berkeley grad Rachel Bernstein.)

2012-05-23 01:29:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-05-15 05:37:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

How does he know my life??? This literally happened to me last week. I was staring for so long at a STEM image (ordered rows of dots representing atoms) that my eyes relaxed and I was seeing in stereo. Fortunately, there was no hidden message...

2012-04-26 19:47:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I love the simple explanation here of why correlation =/= causation.
"Perhaps people who eat lots of eggs are more likely to have allergies but less likely to have cancer."

2012-04-26 18:13:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

It never occurred to me before that journals would skimp on the peer review process. In my mind, it is a holy tenet of How Science is Done, so who would ever dream of betraying it? But some of the awful papers I've seen start to make a lot more sense, in light of the vague definition of the word "peer" and the protection that anonymity provides.

2012-04-15 00:33:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My new favorite tumblr (though I think a lot of these people might be more clueless than they are old...)

2012-03-27 16:54:33 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Such a change in attitude should start with graduate advisers, who must fulfill their role as true mentors, helping students explore the range of opportunities that their training has enabled, both inside and outside the box. Crucially, they must make it clear that leaving academe does not suddenly brand them a waste of their mentor's time."

My thoughts exactly! Thanks for the link, +Helen Chappell

2012-03-13 19:34:59 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My take on this is slightly different than +Elizabeth Boatman's, but I can definitely appreciate her point. It's shameful that manufacturers can take advantage of the rules and claim that their ingredients are "natural" and therefore "healthy".

2012-03-10 03:09:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Hey Durham-ites, I thought you guys might be interested in this.

+Justin Clapp +Shannon Bauman +Katie Smith +Helen Chappell +Eric Bowen

2012-03-09 23:02:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

In case you're missing your daily dose of disappointment with the world...

2012-03-05 19:05:11 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Wow. This video makes me wish I were a bio person, so I could claim to know what's going on here. Either way, I love his message about the importance of drawing pictures.

via +Alex Graettinger

2012-03-02 21:15:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Fantastic article about Bell Labs by +Brian Lambson. For those with time for a long read, definitely check out the +The New York Times piece here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-and-the-bell-labs-miracle.html

2012-02-29 18:58:37 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The nerve of these people, trying to publicize such a controversial message.

2012-02-21 20:48:25 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I hadn't heard the story of Love Canal before... when companies act this way, it's no wonder that our society has an amorphous fear of "chemicals".

2012-02-20 21:52:37 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Beautiful HDR photos from +Adam Hill on the Berkeley Science Review blog.

2012-02-14 20:47:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Very important idea. +Google, please take note.

via +Angela Kilby

2012-02-10 23:31:23 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This video - via +Philip Plait - is super, super cool. The woman attached a camera to her hula hoop. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/02/10/a-hoopy-frood/

2012-02-09 18:00:09 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

(Thu03) First-person stories of how Planned Parenthood saved people.

http://plannedparenthoodsavedme.tumblr.com/

Hat tip to +Jennifer Ouellette.

2012-02-08 19:34:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Surprising result from a clever experiment. Link to the report in press here: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/norbert.schwarz/files/lee___schwarz_clean_slate_cdps_in-press_pri.pdf

2012-02-08 19:24:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I have a HUGE science crush on badass mammal anatomist Joy Reidenberg. So glad she's getting some fame and fortune for being completely awesome.

2012-02-03 17:41:13 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

It's been a while since I went to Cute Overload, and boy have I missed it. I disagree with the ordering here (#9 blew me away) but it's a great collection.

+Annie Ma +Janna Clare Weaver I think you two can relate.

2012-02-01 21:59:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This is amazing. Credit for the link goes out to +Anthony Fu, who will never read this.

2012-01-22 03:26:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

So cool.

2012-01-21 04:48:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"The preference for “rigor” in science education can also interfere with the teaching of science at the college level. For example, in an introductory biology class, students are often required to learn the names of the 10 enzymes that oxidize sugars in a process called glycolysis. But an obsession with such details can obscure any real understanding of the central issue, leaving students with the impression that science is impossibly dull, causing many to shift to a different major."