Fish on a Bicycle

Nice work Steven!! genefish: KPLU |Inside that mysterious goo,...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:04:11 -0400

Nice work Steven!!

genefish:

KPLU |Inside that mysterious goo, oysters have a story

By Keith Seinfeld

ScienceOnlineSeattle #4: Life (Online) After Death

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:55:36 -0400

ScienceOnlineSeattle #4: Life (Online) After Death:

Can’t make it to tonight’s Science Online Seattle? Don’t worry, it’s live!

The reality of human mortality raises a host of challenging questions for the online realm. Who has access to your accounts if you are incapacitated or deceased? How can we memorialize lost love ones? What are the latest developments in virtual estate planning? ScienceOnlineSeattle kicks off our fall series with this heavy - but fascinating - discussion at the Pacific Science Center. Featuring a blend of legal, philosophical, and technical perspectives from our panelists, expect lively conversation, and more questions than answers.

genefish: Dave Talks Science, Episode 1 - Nightlighting...

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 02:48:43 -0400

genefish:

Dave Talks Science, Episode 1 - Nightlighting Zooplankton (by rangerdavidd)

Start the mosquito video in the previous post when the song is a...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:01:07 -0400

Start the mosquito video in the previous post when the song is a 4 seconds. Awesome!

Did you know mosquitoes can survive being hit by raindrops, even...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:53:00 -0400

Did you know mosquitoes can survive being hit by raindrops, even though raindrops can be 50x their size? Check out this slow-mo video, part of the supplemental material of this PNAS paper http://www.pnas.org/content/109/25/9822.abstract

Try to start the video when the song in the next post is at 4 seconds - they go together perfectly.

June's Science Online Seattle Storify

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:27:00 -0400

Would you snorkel in near freezing rivers to study salmon? This...

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:12:03 -0400

Would you snorkel in near freezing rivers to study salmon? This guy would - for 2500 miles! Full disclosure, I’m working with the inspiring company Leaping Frog Films that created this film, and they are looking for sponsorship for this series.

Did you know that even though your taxes pay for scientific...

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:21:44 -0400

Did you know that even though your taxes pay for scientific research, you usually can’t see the results without paying huge fees? Free access publicly funded science will increase the speed of science, create jobs, and save lives.

HT @Comprendia

gene|fish: oysters, urbanization, and crowdfunding - oh my!

Wed, 02 May 2012 19:08:00 -0400

gene|fish: oysters, urbanization, and crowdfunding - oh my!:

genefish:

I’m sure almost everyone has heard of crowdfunding for research dollars at this point, and maybe you are even intrigued by the concept. Well, two of us SAFS-ites (Lauren in the Olden Lab and Emma in the Roberts Lab) are out on the crowdfunding limb this month as part of the second #SciFund…

What IS ocean acidification anyway? A simple explanation. HT...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:35:47 -0400

What IS ocean acidification anyway? A simple explanation. HT @aseachange

I’m not ashamed to admit that I LOVE the band They Might...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:45:00 -0400

I’m not ashamed to admit that I LOVE the band They Might Be Giants. Some might think, at first listen, that this is a band for kids. But, as my boyfriend so aptly put it “a wannabe punk rocker and a wannabe lounge singer got together and this is what happened”. Their album Here Comes Science is a treasure to science geeks like me, and might even have you singing phrases like “The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma” nearly unaware that you are actually learning and loving science.

This song itself is an example of the iterative nature of the process of science - a fancy way of saying “science circles back on itself so that useful ideas are built upon and used to learn even more about the natural world.” The TMBG song is actually a cover of a song from the 1950’s that goes “the sun is a mass of incandescent gas”. Though catchy, this is actually incorrect. The scientific consensus has evolved to include even more types of matter than just the solids, liquids, and gases, like many of us learned in grade school. TMBG originally covered the song to include the incorrect lyrics. After learning that the sun is actually made of a type of matter known as plasma, they re-wrote the entire thing. Hear the story from John and John themselves in their interview on NPR.

Did you know that 4 leaf clovers are rare because 4 is not a...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:24:11 -0400

Did you know that 4 leaf clovers are rare because 4 is not a fibonacci number? Learn more about fibonacci numbers in nature in this video by @numberphile HT @GrrlScientist

Science Online Seattle Livestream

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:03:08 -0400

If you can’t make it to the event, watch on livestream or follow the twitter hashtag #soSEA

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/295770/soSEA1

Where Are The Science Communicators? Interactive Map of 1000+ #SciComm Twitterers

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:58:30 -0400

Where Are The Science Communicators? Interactive Map of 1000+ #SciComm Twitterers:

Happy to see Seattle and some tweeps of mine make it on this map of where the people using the #SciComm hashtag are located, including @UW_CoEnv, @LizNeely, and @Hickeyh

MY LIFE

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:04:36 -0400

MY LIFE

I’m a big fan of science communication projects that...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:27:00 -0400

I’m a big fan of science communication projects that experiment with different forms of media - here’s a pop song about chemistry!

While this might get a chuckle out of science geeks like myself, I wonder how much it can really communicate about science. If you are really listening closely, you can glean some info about electrons and atoms, but do you really learn much? Maybe this is the price you must pay to reach a wider audience: while a blog post might teach quite a bit about science, you will only reach those who want to read about science online (I imagine that market is rather small). On the other hand, nearly everybody on the internet likes to watch a clever video for a couple of minutes.

Science communicators, what are your thoughts on using different types of media? What are the ups and downs of each in your experience? Do you have a favorite?

Science Concierge: Connecting People with Knowledge

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:20:20 -0400

Science Concierge: Connecting People with Knowledge:

This project, a collaboration between the Science Online community and Science Seeker, will establish a microgrant program for science communication. Help them win by commenting, liking, reblogging, and sharing!

newschallenge:

1. What do you propose to do?

Develop Science Concierge microgrant program within our existing science hub to motivate more and better interaction with science.

2. Is anyone else doing something like this now, and how is your project different?

Our interconnected annual conference,…

mayaking: The cure for everything is salt water - sweat, tears,...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:24:58 -0400

mayaking:

The cure for everything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the ocean

jtotheizzoe: catscientists: In order to use the litterbox, you...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:21:36 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

catscientists:

In order to use the litterbox, you must first create the universe.

Internet, you may take a bow.

ichthyologist: Dracula fish (Danionella dracula) The...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:55:55 -0500

ichthyologist:

Dracula fish (Danionella dracula)

The appropriately named dracula fish is unusual in that its ancestors lost their true teeth around 50 million years ago, but re-evolved its bone fangs as a replacement around 30 million years ago.The species is sexually dimorphic in that the female does not have such prominent bone fangs. It becomes sexually mature while its body is still not fully developed; scientists speculate that this may happen because younger fish were more successful reproductively. Oh yeah, did I mention its only 17mm long

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