Look what arrived in the post when I was on vacation: Thanks to the boys and girls and Testudines at BioMed Central.
The front page of The Guardian featured an article highlighting the apparent waning efficiency of antibiotic efficiency due to the global spread of certain drug-resistant bacteria. NHS takes a closer look behind the headlines, but what do you think? Is it likely that we will be dealing with infections in the UK that are completely…
Take one science curriculum, some cameras and a couple of thousand school-kids, and what do you get? Over two hundred short films about science, entered into the Planet SciCast competition, the winners of which were announced last Friday in the hallowed halls of the Royal Institution in London. Photo by Laura Mtungwazi / SciCast SciCast…
It all started with a little tweet, asking you to tell me your favourite science joke. Dozens of comments later, I’m going to have to ask you to stop… please. There were a lot of jokes, some funnier than others, some apparently from a site on the internet (yes, I recognize them) and a few…
The contemporary arts curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist once said that the most important things at a conference happen in the coffee breaks. He famously took this observation to its logical conclusion by running a science/arts event, “Art & Brain” that was essentially an extended coffee break.
Guest post: Paula Salgado, a structural biologist in Steve Matthew’s lab at Imperial College London, describes her experience of the “I’m a Scientist, get me out of here!” event that concluded last Friday. As 3.30pm on Friday 25th June approached and I found myself in a workshop, away from my computer, I was anxiously waiting…
Guest post: Paula Salgado, a structural biologist in Steve Matthew’s lab at Imperial College London, describes her experience of the “I’m a Scientist, get me out of here!” event that concluded last Friday. As 3.30pm on Friday 25th June approached and I found myself in a workshop, away from my computer, I was anxiously waiting…
You’ve heard the one about the two atoms walking down the street? No? How about when Professor Heisenberg gets stopped for speeding? What’s your favourite science joke? I’m giving away an F1000 sweatshirt to the funniest and/or one that makes me groan the most, and a copy of My life in Science to the runner-up.…
The parlous state of science reporting in the main stream media is not news. The Daily Mail would have you believe that everything from age to zinc causes or cures cancer (and in some cases both) but even ‘quality’ papers more often than not over-sensationalize findings, or simply get them just plain wrong. In fact,…
Carmen D’Cruz flies the flag for science communication
