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Category Archives: Public Engagement
From Cambridge to the Fens can feel a Long Way
This week I attended the Discovery Awards associated with the Longitude Prize. These provide seedcorn money for those facing some bottleneck in their quest for a rapid test that helps to rule out unnecessary use of antibiotics, the focus of … Continue reading
Posted in AMR, Communicating Science, education, Longitude Prize, Public Engagement, Wisbech
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For your consideration: a preprint on open access and public engagement
I have just posted a preprint of a book chapter on the interactions of open access and public engagement with science. It’s called “Open Access: the beast that no-one could – or should – control?” and is my contribution to an upcoming … Continue reading
Posted in Academic publishing, Making Science Public, Open Access, Preprints, Public Engagement, Science & Politics
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You’d better watch out
It must be really tense in mission control during an ISS spacewalk on Christmas Eve. What better time to eat a burrito? From http://www.nasa.
Posted in burrito, ISS, Nonsense, Public Engagement, spacewalk
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Engaging the Public, Citizen Science and Imperialism
Last weekend I made my first foray to Science Online or, as it is now called SpotOn, in London. It doesn’t matter that I still regard myself as a novice in the world of social media (and yes, the words … Continue reading
Posted in careers, Communicating Science, Galaxy Zoon, History of Science, Joseph Hooker, Public Engagement, Research, SpotOn London
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Classical Public Engagement?
One of the things I have noticed in the past couple of years is that all kinds of interesting and unexpected invitations come my way. I think this is something arising from the award of the L’Oreal/UNESCO Laureate in 2009 … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Essential Classics, Public Engagement, Sarah Walker, UNESCO
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On being mainstream
I know a lot of failed writers and editors—and pilots and athletes and actors and physicians. They’re all working in labs. Science!
Posted in careers, communication, defence, jobs, MOD, Public Engagement, RAF, rants, science
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Write Right
If you thought I was done open access, think again. The taunting of the journal impact factor beast in recent posts was necessary because it is blocking the path to free dissemination of the research literature and the omnivorous creature … Continue reading
Posted in communication, Open Access, PLOS ONE, Public Engagement, Writing
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Standing on my Soapbox (in the Rain)
Standing on a soapbox may seem an odd thing for a scientist to do, but every year a bunch of women do just that in an attempt to capture the attention of passers-by on the South Bank in London. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Communicating Science, goo, Interdisciplinary Science, proteins, Public Engagement, soft matter physics, Women in science
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Out of it – probably, but not out of here
In which I procrastinate. About procrastinating. Goodness.
Posted in chess, Procrastination, Public Engagement, The Life Scientific
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
I am really chuffed to find myself one of the new intake of Trustees for the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI), which incorporates the Science Museum in London and its companion near Swindon, the National Railway Museum in … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, displays, education, Public Engagement, school children, Science Museum
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