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vivienne wrote a new blog post: Open Laboratory 2011 now available to buy! 2 years, 2 months ago
Do you want to read some of the world’s best science blogging from 2010… and a blogpost by me? If so, click here right now to buy your paperback or e-book copy of Open Laboratory 2010, which claims to be “The Best of Science Writing on the Web”. Open Lab 2010 includes 50 blogposts, 6 poems and one cartoon [...] -
vivienne commented on the blog post Why are female science writers invisible? 2 years, 4 months ago
Ed, My apologies too. The post was written in about 10 minutes while I was making dinner and – in many places – it shows! I was following on from Christie Wilcox’s post (http://scienceblogs.com/observations/2011/01/ive_never_been_very_good_at_hi.php). I should have made that clearer – the first rule of blogposts is never assume readers know what’s…[Read more]
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vivienne commented on the blog post Why are female science writers invisible? 2 years, 4 months ago
The first paragraph sucks. It was building on a throwaway comment/discussion… but it sucks. It’s going to get changed as soon as I’m not doing three things simultaneously, which may be early tomorrow UK time – but will happen!
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vivienne commented on the blog post Why are female science writers invisible? 2 years, 4 months ago
Agreed. Once I get the chance, I’ll refocus the post to focus on the representation of women on science blogging networks.
I saw the argument about Rebecca on Twitter before the suggestion to start an open thread. I thought it was an interesting place to start…
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vivienne commented on the blog post Why are female science writers invisible? 2 years, 4 months ago
Then I realised I couldn’t write for a science magazine about the joy of multicoloured swimsuits because the average reader is a bloke. Because no bloke wants to think about women in bikinis. (In other words, I bet one could write that story for a magazine marketed to Manly Men, but the objectification issues and [...]
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vivienne commented on the blog post Why are female science writers invisible? 2 years, 4 months ago
Rebecca has got tonnes of praise outside of science communication types. But – when I went to Science Online 2011 – I felt no one mentioned her much. There was lots of discussion about good science writing. But I felt no one discussed why the Henrietta Lacks book is so amazing or used it as [...]
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vivienne wrote a new blog post: Why are female science writers invisible? 2 years, 4 months ago
Why is Rebecca Skloot less lauded than male science writers like Ed Yong or Carl Zimmer ? It certainly isn’t her book sales or the quality of her writing. Her narrative non-fiction book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is in the top 100 bestselling paperbacks on Amazon . It won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize this year. It’s by far the [...]
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vivienne wrote a new blog post: Smart octopi go on walkabout 2 years, 5 months ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocWF6d0nelY Did you know octopi can climb out aquarium tanks, travel across the room, eat the fish in another tank and return to their tank before they’re caught? Neither did I. Sounds incredible, but North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher has locks on the top of their octopus tanks (see picture) to stop their…[Read more] -
vivienne wrote a new blog post: Outdoor Science in top 0.05% of science bloggers in 2010 2 years, 5 months ago
Great news for Outdoor Science. My blog post “A tale of death, derring-do and barometers” is among 50 picked for this year’s edition of The Open Laboratory - an anthology of “the best in science writing on blogs” . To get into Open Lab, my story about how a storm could solve the decade-long mystery of who first conquered Mount Everest [...] -
vivienne commented on the blog post Does my sidebar look big in this? 2 years, 5 months ago
Yes, all the AGU blogs look the same. Was looking for people’s views for a Science Online 2011 session on what makes a science blog well designed. Guess trying to be funny meant the point got missed…
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vivienne wrote a new blog post: Does my sidebar look big in this? 2 years, 5 months ago
Hello. It’s Outdoor Science here. No, not the blogger. The blog itself. I, as a blog, want the answer to that age-old question… Am I good-looking? My blogger, Vivienne, is moderating a session at Science Online 2011 – a conference about science and the web – later this month. The session is about writing blogposts for a [...] -
vivienne wrote a new blog post: Come face-to-face with an albino alligator 2 years, 5 months ago
Do you like clownfish? Fancy coming face-to-face with an albino alligator ? Want to see a greenhouse laboratory with running seawater? Attending Science Online 2011 ? If the answer to all these questions is “Yes” then zip over to the Science Online Lab and Museum tour page to sign up for the all-day aquarium tour. There are only two people…[Read more] -
vivienne commented on the blog post Is science interesting? 2 years, 5 months ago
I should have added ‘interesting/informative/provocative’ for the public
Funding bodies are – I understand – increasingly wanting scientists to do public outreach. But, crucially, a fair few people believe scientists shouldn’t be forced to do outreach. Some scientists are better at outreach than others and the core of a scientist’s work is…[Read more] -
vivienne commented on the blog post Is science interesting? 2 years, 5 months ago
Scientists have a different job than journalists. Scientists aren’t interesting/informative/provocative for a living… or I don’t think they should be.
I think the answer to your question is probably ‘interesting to funders of research when the scientist puts in a bid’…
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