Fun Links
November 2015:
A website with code for making beautiful graphs in R - A Compendium of Clean Graphs in R.
August 2015:
#junkoff on Twitter. It's what you think it is.
May 2015: (yeah it's been a while)
This is a great video defending basic sciences, from UCSF. It also won the FASEB video contest.
The bobbit worm: fascinating and horrifying.
A bit of dry humor for those of us scrambling for research dollars.
December 2013:
Sarah recently rediscovered this amazing RadioLab about our favorite topic, sperm! Check it out!
June 2013:
WTF Evolution blog. It’s good times.
April 2013:
Good and funny advice on giving talks by the guy who narrates the “True Facts About…” series.
March 2013:
Whiz kid grows algae under her bed and wins Intel science fair.
February 2013:
Another reason to become an effective science communicator – crowd funding! (Also, I overlapped with Will Luddington at Hopkins Marine Station. Yes, I’m a name-dropper.)
Nudibranch can regenerate its penis. Just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Hilarious and informative video on the angler fish. Seriously. You will laugh your ass off.
Great TED talk by Frans de Waal on moral behavior in animals (specifically, mammals).
Artist mixes toy figures with fish in surreal underwater scenes. Check it out, it’s fun times.
Blog on sperm trading in hermaphrodite flatworms. Sperm economics. What’s not to like?
January 2013:
27 crazy scientific discoveries from 2012. The future is now.
Some great advice on writing an NSF preproposal from @proflikesubstance, who does The Spandrel Shop blog.
Also check out the blog’s backlash to Susan Adams’ widely trashed Forbes article on how easy it is to be a University Professor. The comments are especially entertaining.
Ever wondered how exactly researchers come by their results? #overlyhonestmethods and more curated tweets.
August 2012
Coverage of our paper in Current Biology, spearheaded by Stefan Lüpold, on Science Daily.
Fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal about gender discrimination in science from the perspective of transgender scientists.
March 2012
Former grad student Dawn Higginson interviewed on Arizona Public Radio.
Dawn did a fantastic job handling the worst NPR interviewer I have ever seen.
Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab.
An evolution animation generated by drawings of elementary school kids.
February 2012:
Sperm diversity slide show that highlights the recent PNAS paper by Dawn Higginson and Scott.
A fun look at how “marriageability” of educated women has changed over time, from the New York Times, by Stephanie Coontz.
A nice homage to Cormac McCarthy and intellectual diversity, from The Daily Beast, by Nick Romeo.
Awesome Sushi Science series on why scientists should engage with social media.
A great editorial in the Christian Science Monitor about how we can approach the climate change issue in a different way.
A fun science literacy quiz, also from the Christian Science Monitor. (I scored 41/50 – can you beat me?)
Other links about my research
Follow me on ResearchGate.
Access my publications on GoogleScholar.
SU Daily Orange
Interviewed for Syracuse University’s NSF Advance grant Dec. 8, 2010
Coverage of our paper in Science Mar. 24, 2010
Article on women in science Dec. 9, 2009
Some of my favorite science blogs:
TheSpandrelShop - by an assistant professor in evolutionary biology
LabSpaces - a great resource for all the latest cool discoveries
Scientific American blogs
Not Exactly Rocket Science - by Ed Yong
Why Evolution is True – by Jerry Coyne
November 2015:
A website with code for making beautiful graphs in R - A Compendium of Clean Graphs in R.
August 2015:
#junkoff on Twitter. It's what you think it is.
May 2015: (yeah it's been a while)
This is a great video defending basic sciences, from UCSF. It also won the FASEB video contest.
The bobbit worm: fascinating and horrifying.
A bit of dry humor for those of us scrambling for research dollars.
December 2013:
Sarah recently rediscovered this amazing RadioLab about our favorite topic, sperm! Check it out!
June 2013:
WTF Evolution blog. It’s good times.
April 2013:
Good and funny advice on giving talks by the guy who narrates the “True Facts About…” series.
March 2013:
Whiz kid grows algae under her bed and wins Intel science fair.
February 2013:
Another reason to become an effective science communicator – crowd funding! (Also, I overlapped with Will Luddington at Hopkins Marine Station. Yes, I’m a name-dropper.)
Nudibranch can regenerate its penis. Just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Hilarious and informative video on the angler fish. Seriously. You will laugh your ass off.
Great TED talk by Frans de Waal on moral behavior in animals (specifically, mammals).
Artist mixes toy figures with fish in surreal underwater scenes. Check it out, it’s fun times.
Blog on sperm trading in hermaphrodite flatworms. Sperm economics. What’s not to like?
January 2013:
27 crazy scientific discoveries from 2012. The future is now.
Some great advice on writing an NSF preproposal from @proflikesubstance, who does The Spandrel Shop blog.
Also check out the blog’s backlash to Susan Adams’ widely trashed Forbes article on how easy it is to be a University Professor. The comments are especially entertaining.
Ever wondered how exactly researchers come by their results? #overlyhonestmethods and more curated tweets.
August 2012
Coverage of our paper in Current Biology, spearheaded by Stefan Lüpold, on Science Daily.
Fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal about gender discrimination in science from the perspective of transgender scientists.
March 2012
Former grad student Dawn Higginson interviewed on Arizona Public Radio.
Dawn did a fantastic job handling the worst NPR interviewer I have ever seen.
Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab.
An evolution animation generated by drawings of elementary school kids.
February 2012:
Sperm diversity slide show that highlights the recent PNAS paper by Dawn Higginson and Scott.
A fun look at how “marriageability” of educated women has changed over time, from the New York Times, by Stephanie Coontz.
A nice homage to Cormac McCarthy and intellectual diversity, from The Daily Beast, by Nick Romeo.
Awesome Sushi Science series on why scientists should engage with social media.
A great editorial in the Christian Science Monitor about how we can approach the climate change issue in a different way.
A fun science literacy quiz, also from the Christian Science Monitor. (I scored 41/50 – can you beat me?)
Other links about my research
Follow me on ResearchGate.
Access my publications on GoogleScholar.
SU Daily Orange
Interviewed for Syracuse University’s NSF Advance grant Dec. 8, 2010
Coverage of our paper in Science Mar. 24, 2010
Article on women in science Dec. 9, 2009
Some of my favorite science blogs:
TheSpandrelShop - by an assistant professor in evolutionary biology
LabSpaces - a great resource for all the latest cool discoveries
Scientific American blogs
Not Exactly Rocket Science - by Ed Yong
Why Evolution is True – by Jerry Coyne
