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SciWriteLabs #4, in which Alistair Dove argues that bad science inevitably...

Note: This installment of #SciWriteLabs was initially going to be a three-way conversation between me, Nature‘s Ananyo Bhattacharya, and Alistair (not TWiV co-host and #SciWriteLabs 3 vet Alan) Dove, a...

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SciWriteLabs #5.1: Nature’s Ananyo Bhattacharya on “Bad Science,” inverted...

This is the first of a multi-part #SciWriteLabs discussion with Ananyo Bhattacharya, the chief online editor of Nature. For those just tuning in, previous installments of the #SciWriteLabs series can...

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SciWriteLabs #5.2: Bhattacharya returns! The MMR debacle and why peer review...

This is the second of a multi-part #SciWriteLabs discussion with Ananyo Bhattacharya, the chief online editor of Nature. For those just tuning in, part one of the discussion with Ananyo is here,...

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SciWriteLabs #6: BMJ editor Fiona Godlee on the Wakefield-MMR fiasco, the...

Yesterday, the British Medical Journal called for “a parliamentary inquiry into research which claimed that the MMR vaccine causes autism and bowel disease, following extraordinary new disclosures...

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The state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made...

The summer has not been an easy one for aficionados or practitioners of science writing. There was, of course, the ongoing, death-by-1,000-cuts Jonah Lehrer fiasco, where, over a period of more than a...

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Seeing Stardust

What happens when data from an astronomical observatory is mixed with eastern mythology by the hand of an artist known for dressing up as an alien creature? Some might say ‘an almighty mess’, and I...

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A natural arkive

The impulse to collect, categorise and organise our natural world speaks to a general human desire to better understand ourselves and our place in the universe. The history of what we currently think...

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The Magnifying Glass Ceiling: The Plight of Women in Science

Scientists frequently reference a quote attributed to Einstein: “You do not truly understand something unless you can explain it to your grandma.” Whether or not these words were actually Einstein’s,...

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Genome editing just got a lot easier

This post is cross-posted with Berkeley Scientific Journal If you’ve recently taken a glimpse at the front page of any major science news outlet, it is likely you are no stranger to an emerging genome...

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Spring is the Season for Citizen Science

Here are six projects in need of your help as you walk the dog, work in your garden, clean the gutters, or do spring cleaning. And check out these  new citizen science projects just added to the...

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