by Melissae Fellet | Nov 11, 2010 | Posts
Full disclosure: I’m a dog person. (So is Sascha.) I love their exuberance. Excessive tail wags radiate into full body wiggles. At dinnertime, table manners are optional as they snarf their food. And then there are cats. From my cat-ownership experience,...
by Susan L. Young | Nov 11, 2010 | Posts
From today’s Twitterverse: Apparently Dick Van Dyke fell asleep on a surfboard and woke up to no land in sight, but fins all around. The fins belonged to a group of porpoises that pushed the actor back to dry land. ~~ What’s the news here, that Dick Van...
by Keith Rozendal | Nov 11, 2010 | Posts
I am a world-changer, at heart. I have led a privileged life, not without its challenges; but it still provides a stable place from which I feel an obligation to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. Sometimes, you never know what impact you’re...
by Donna Hesterman | Nov 10, 2010 | Posts
[slideshow] Here are some pictures from a field biology trip a few years ago. We went from Auburn, Alabama to Portal, Arizona and back in 9 days. We camped on BLM lands and surveyed small mammals (bats and rats) at every stop. The picture with the bucket shows how you...
by Sascha Zubryd | Nov 9, 2010 | Posts
Interviewing scientists in academia presents unique challenges. A lot of the researchers I have interviewed so far have been friendly, funny, and happy to answer questions. I get great quotes from our conversations. Sometimes I send quotes and explanatory paragraphs...
by Danielle Venton | Nov 9, 2010 | Posts
I and six other scribbling slugs rolled back home again after attending ScienceWriters2010. We’ve been basking in the light of the field’s luminaries, gathering advice and business cards and doing what we could to introduce ourselves as up-and-coming colleagues. It...
by Nadia Drake | Nov 8, 2010 | Posts
I’d been warned. But I did not heed the warning: do not look at comments posted about your news stories. I’ve heard various incarnations of this statement, and yet…and yet, I do view online feedback. With trepidation. Sometimes it’s helpful....
by Keith Rozendal | Nov 7, 2010 | Posts
First of all, I need to talk about “awesome.” It’s a lofty word, brought low. Awe describes an overwhelming sense of wonder, mixed with dread and fear. It’s a word more suited to describing enchantment or mystical, non-ordinary states of consciousness, not graphic...
by Donna Hesterman | Nov 7, 2010 | Posts
The biology department at Auburn University has a tradition called Bio-Lunch where graduate students invite a scientist to come and speak about their work over a brown bag lunch. My friend, Sara, came bursting into the lab one day to tell me that she had been chosen...
by Catherine Meyers | Nov 7, 2010 | Posts
Last night the National Association of Science Writers held a ScienceWriters2010 welcome reception in the Peabody Museum of Natural History here at Yale. The entrance of the museum is graced with this terrific hanging squid. From airplanes to whale bones, museums...
by Jane J. Lee | Nov 6, 2010 | Posts
The ScienceWriters 2010 conference is jammed full of future colleagues. And there is a healthy contingent of Slug alums, in addition to us newbies. When people find out that I’m a slug, they have nothing but good things to say about the program (although I doubt...
by Melissae Fellet | Nov 6, 2010 | Posts
…or else these would have been the lyrics to “Strangers in the Night.” [soundcloud width=”100%” height=”81″ params=”amp” url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/6750267?secret_token=s-7x3Nz”] The opening...
