I write stuff sometimes. It’s been scattered as of late, but with year one of my post-doc under my belt, I’m starting to get the hang of things. Or, so I tell myself. As I work harder to put more blog-writing and video-making out, I thought it would help, at least my own sanity, to…
After telling everyone I’d be at the media/music/explosion that is South by SouthWest (SXSW) for several days, I got this phone call today asking if I’d like to be in Chile that week for the inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, or ALMA. So even though my brain was yelling YES, I sadly declined…
I’m there! If you are here as well, say hello to the pink-haired girl. If not, go here for where you can watch sessions online and follow us on Twitter and Google+ with #scio13. Also, if you haven’t been paying attention on Google+ over the last 30ish hours or so, this happened. TL;DR: the science suggested…
August 7th - Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Communicating Science - A National Conference on Science Education and Public Outreach
I’ve been setting up for the Venus Transit (in addition to continuing to settle down in my new hometown) which happily took me to a craft store and a home improvement store this weekend. You can see the results of my building stuff at Skepchick! Of course, I’ll be involved in the live broadcast by…
Wow. Things have been really busy here at the brand new job! Last night, I hosted the CosmoQuest Weekly Science Hour over on Google Plus. I had a lovely conversation with my UVa friends Paul Ries, Rachael Beaton, and Ryan Lynch about astronomy outreach with Dark Skies, Bright Kids. Listen in to our conversation for…
Re-post from the CosmoQuest blog: Am I not so lucky that Joe has already posted an introduction to the fabulous universe of CosmoQuest Hangouts? Join us live on Google+ this evening (4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern) for a roundtable chat with several members of Dark Skies, Bright Kids, an outreach program to schools in central Virginia. This…
Few days… Few weeks. Okay, I’m back. I just moved to the Midwest to start my new job as a post-doc working with CosmoQuest as informal education lead. Woo hoo! My apartment is only partly unpacked, my office just getting set up, the university doesn’t even have me in the system yet, but I’ve officially…
Citizen science online is catching on these days. Not just for your screensaver anymore, these projects let you get your hands dirty, metaphorically speaking. You can classify galaxies or fold proteins. I am really happy to share this project which is now in beta and building a community for astronomical research: CosmoQuest.
It’s Friday, not Monday, which means I’m going to load up part 1 of the “stuff that interests me” from the past few weeks. Since I… I missed a couple of Mondays there. Obviously, big news in the tech world… Steve Jobs has died. Amanda Bauer’s blog brought his 2005 Stanford speech to my attention,…
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