The Sciences
When Doing Sensitive Interviews, Have Emergency Puppy
So, I haven’t had a chance to blog these last few weeks. Part of it is that I’ve been submitting papers, revising papers, teaching, and giving talks – the usual gig for a professor.
Context and Variation
Human behavior, evolutionary medicine… and ladybusiness.
Health
Roller Derby Teammates Give Each Other Bacterial Hugs
My team does a lot together. We work out. We practice and scrimmage. We swap recipes and cook food together. We watch footage and we hold meetings. We try to listen and then talk all over each other...
The Sciences
Science Online 2013 Archive Up: Watch Our Identity Session
The #scio13ID session is here! It was a great session thanks to a brilliant, brave, thoughtful audience. Watch live streaming video from scienceonline at livestream.com
The Sciences
The Biological Anthropology Field Experiences Web Survey: Now Live
Field experiences are often what help an undergraduate decide whether or not to pursue biological anthropology, they determine the course of a graduate student’s dissertation, and they provide the data needed to launch grants and make tenure cases for faculty...
Evolution
5 Ways to Make Progress in Evolutionary Psychology: Smash, Not Match, Stereotypes
(Alternate, Twitter-sourced titles: "5 Ways to Prove Darwin Wasn't Crazy," "Shut the Eff Up and Science Already," "5 Ways Psychology Needs to Evolve."
Mind & Brain
My response to the Guardian pseudoscience on girls and science
Just wanted to give a quick heads up to those of you who follow on the blog but not on Twitter or Facebook (personal, blog) that Chris Chambers and I have a piece in the Guardian today responding to the recent pseudoscience on why more girls don't pursue science in places like the US and UK: "Pseudoscience and stereotyping won't solve gender inequality in science." Many thanks to Ed Yong for hooking up Chris and me, and to Chris for graciously inviting me to write with him...
The Sciences
Diversity in Science Carnival: Identity Edition
I have a million thoughts swirling in my head after Science Online 2013, and a million more things I want to learn about and accomplish for Science Online 2014.
The Sciences
Context and Identity in Science Writing #scio13ID
As you now all know, my partner in crime Scicurious is much like the superhero Batwoman. Or maybe, she is trying to tell us something, and finally share with us her secret identity?
The Sciences
Kate Clancy s Short Grant Rant: On Broken Promises
Here is my grant rant. It is very, very simple. Last night I was talking to a colleague who just heard he missed the funding cutoff for his NIH grant by a single point – a score of 19 and under was funded, and his grant was a 20 (Edited 1/27 8pm CST to fix incorrect wording - numbers weren't percentiles but the actual NIH scores)...
The Sciences
Challenge Accepted: Non-traditional Assignments in the Classroom
I’ve been teaching a 200-level evolutionary medicine course at my university for four years. Each year I try something a little different to give students more ways to express themselves and to demonstrate their understanding of the material...
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@ScientificAmerican
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Anthropology in Practice
Exploring the human condition.
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Beautiful Minds
Insights into intelligence, creativity, personality, and well-being
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Budding Scientist
Everything you always wanted to know about raising science-literate kids
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Cross-Check
Critical views of science in the news
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Dark Star Diaries
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Dog Spies
Explore the science behind the dog in your bed
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Extinction Countdown
News and research about endangered species from around the world
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The Science Behind Extreme Weather
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Science by and for kids ages 8-15
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Hot Planet
Climate science in a changing world
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Illusion Chasers
Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
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Life, Unbounded
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Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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Rosetta Stones
Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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SA Visual
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Talking back
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The Artful Amoeba
A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
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Voices
Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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