I was invited to participate in a weekend workshop on science communication by NESCent: The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina.  I will join a cadre of other science communicators, scientists, and journalists to hash out what to do about this ongoing battle to get quality accurate science news and reports about evolution to [...]

Undergraduate Diversity Travel Awards to Botanical Society of America Meetings The PLANTS program (funded by the National Science Foundation and Botanical Society of America) encourages the participation of undergraduates from underrepresented groups at the annual meetings of the BSA and affiliated organizations (this year in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 27-31, 2013). These meetings focus on [...]

Countdown to ScienceOnline 2013 – the 7th annual (and largest) gathering of STEM and Social Media Enthusiast will convene in the Research Triangle, North Carolina.  I love this conference. It has become my favorite professional gathering in the last few years. I’v met some amazing people – intelligent, innovative, creative, communicative, honest, generous, caring, supportive [...]

Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) wants YOU to attend its annual conference. Hats off SWS. It’s one of themost active and vocal professional societies that work to promote diversity and inclusion of students, especially undergraduates in the scientific experience. The SWS Diversity Program was created to increase diversity in the Society and the field of [...]

I’m back and I am definitely at ‘em.  I’m working to get a lot of work done by the end of the semester  I have some major benchmarks to meet: manuscripts submitted, securing animals, paperwork, red tape, and more.  My workload is a little heftier.  Plus, I’m traveling quite a bit.  The good news is [...]

Oh my!  I’ve been following the tweets of fellow scientist and science communicators attending the The Science of Science Communication program hosted by the National Academies of Sciences in Washington, DC.  And a session on Science and Politics: Forum of Presidential Science Advisors that included Directors of the Office of Science and Technology Policy that [...]

The other day, I was walking to my car, headed to Animal Care to check on my animals. As I was strolling down the sidewalk I noticed a young lady, African-American. We gave each a cordial nod and said hello as we passed by. Then I heard I heard her call out and I turned [...]

Your Hip Hop Maven of Science is bustin’ a move this weekend and headed to San Diego, California.  I received an invite to attend the 2012 Experimental Biology Conference. Experimental Biology is one of the largest life sciences professional conferences — 14,000 attendees.  It’s a convocation of several scientific societies under the Federation of American [...]

I’ll be visiting Arizona this week to attend the very first COPUS UnConference.  COPUS or the Coalition for the Public Understanding of Science, made very big waves a few ago with the big yearlong celebration of all things science: Year of Science 2009.  Everyone from professional scientists and engineers to K-12, community college, and university [...]

The truth is ScienceOnline is one of the most inclusive science communities I have ever encountered.  I think it’s because the people who attend this unconference – where everyone fully participates – are science communicators in every sense of the word. Whether they tweet or blog or write for mainstream media or author popular science [...]