Anne J Cox, PhD, is a Professor of Physics at Eckerd College in St Petersburg, FL. She was part of the Leadership Team of the US Delegation to the 5th International Conference on Women in Physics, August 2014.
Cindy Blaha, PhD, is Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Marjorie Crabb Garbish Professor of Liberal Arts at Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota. She runs an active astrophysics research program with undergraduates and works locally to increase diversity in STEM as co-Director of the Clare Booth Luce Scholars program (women in STEM) and coordinator of FOCUS (Focusing on Cultivating Scientists) program (underrepresented students in STEM).
Linda Fritz, PhD, Professor of Physics at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA works with undergraduates on condensed matter research and serves as a mentor for Posse Foundation scholars from New York City. She has also taught in Franklin & Marshall’s College Prep program.
Barbara Whitten, PhD, Professor of Physics, Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO is the author of several publications in the field of gender and science including “(Baby) Steps toward Feminist Physics” (JWMSE, 18: 115-134, 2012) and “What Works for Women in Undergraduate Physics? What We Can Learn from Women’s Colleges” (JWMSE, 13: 37-75, 2007).
Amy Robinson is the Creative Director of EyeWire, a game to map the brain from MIT and Princeton. EyeWire is played by 150,000 people worldwide. Together, gamers are helping us decipher the mysteries of how we see. Amy is a long time TEDster and founded the TEDx Music Project, a collection of the best live music from TEDx events around the world.Follow on Twitter @amyleerobinson.
Jennifer Ouellette is a science writer who loves to indulge her inner geek by finding quirky connections between physics, popular culture, and the world at large.Follow on Twitter @JenLucPiquant.
Kalliopi Monoyios is an independent science illustrator. She has illustrated several popular science books including Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within, and Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True. Find her at www.kalliopimonoyios.com.
Follow on Twitter @symbiartic.
Twice a week, John Platt shines a light on endangered species from all over the globe, exploring not just why they are dying out but also what's being done to rescue them from oblivion.Follow on Twitter @johnrplatt.
DNLee is a biologist and she studies animal behavior, mammalogy, and ecology . She uses social media, informal experiential science experiences, and draws from hip hop culture to share science with general audiences, particularly under-served groups. Follow on Twitter @DNLee5.
Darren Naish is a science writer, technical editor and palaeozoologist (affiliated with the University of Southampton, UK). He mostly works on Cretaceous dinosaurs and pterosaurs but has an avid interest in all things tetrapod. His publications can be downloaded at darrennaish.wordpress.com. He has been blogging at Tetrapod Zoology since 2006. Check out the Tet Zoo podcast at tetzoo.com!Follow on Twitter @TetZoo.
Ulyana Horodyskyj received a B.S. in earth science at Rice University and M.Sc. in planetary geology at Brown University. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate in geosciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. For the past few years, she has traveled to Nepal to study how glacial lakes evolve with time. She is currently spending a year abroad on a Fulbright scholarship and has expanded her project to study the effects of black carbon on snow melt.
DNLee is a biologist and she studies animal behavior, mammalogy, and ecology . She uses social media, informal experiential science experiences, and draws from hip hop culture to share science with general audiences, particularly under-served groups. Follow on Twitter @DNLee5.
Freelance geologist dealing with quaternary outcrops interested in the history and the development of geological concepts through time.Follow on Twitter @David_Bressan.
Patrick Mustain is a Communications Manager at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. He is interested in how environmental factors (built, social, media, economic, etc.) affect health behaviors and outcomes, especially those places where media and public health intersect. You can find more of his work at his website, patrickmustain.com.Follow on Twitter @patrickmustain.
Hannah Waters writes about natural history and the way people think about nature. She lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, but really on the internet.Follow on Twitter @hannahjwaters.
Apoorva Mandavilli is a science journalist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker online, Slate, Popular Science, Discover, and others. She is also director of SFARI.org, the leading website for autism research news and an adjunct faculty member in New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.
Nidhi Subbaraman is a staff writer at The Boston Globe's BetaBoston channel and a freelance science journalist. Her work has appeared online at NBCNews.com, Fast Company,New Scientist, Scientific American and elsewhere.
Lawrence D. Wagman, MD, is a nationally renowned oncologic surgeon and researcher specializing in breast and liver cancers. He has authored more than 150 medical journal articles, book chapters and abstracts, including a book he co-authored on the multidisciplinary management of cancer. He currently serves as Executive Medical Director of The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA.
Sandra M. Brown, MS, LCGC, is the Cancer Genetics Program Manager at The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA. She is the 2012 recipient of the Ann Walker Award for excellence in genetic counseling and research. Ms. Brown received a received an M.S. in Genetic Counseling from the University of California, Irvine, in 2007. She is a frequent speaker and active member of several national cancer and genetic networks.
Twice a week, John Platt shines a light on endangered species from all over the globe, exploring not just why they are dying out but also what's being done to rescue them from oblivion.Follow on Twitter @johnrplatt.
Mónica I. Feliú-Mójer is a scientist and science communicator. She is the outreach manager for the Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, and the vice-director of Ciencia Puerto Rico, an organization engaging Hispanic scientists with science communication and education. She is also the co-founder of Red Comuniciencia, a network of science, health and technology communicators to connect and amplify individual communication efforts in order to generate more and better culturally-relevant and accessible content.Follow on Twitter @moefeliu.
DNLee is a biologist and she studies animal behavior, mammalogy, and ecology . She uses social media, informal experiential science experiences, and draws from hip hop culture to share science with general audiences, particularly under-served groups. Follow on Twitter @DNLee5.
Katherine Harmon Courage is a freelance writer and contributing editor for Scientific American. Her book Octopus! The Most Mysterious Creature In the Sea is out now from Penguin/Current. Follow on Twitter @KHCourage.
Every week, hockey-playing science writer John Horgan takes a puckish, provocative look at breaking science. A teacher at Stevens Institute of Technology, Horgan is the author of four books, including The End of Science (Addison Wesley, 1996) and The End of War (McSweeney's, 2012).Follow on Twitter @Horganism.
Hadas Shema is an Information Science graduate student at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She studies the characteristics of online scientific discourse and is a member of the European Union’s Academic Careers Understood through Measurement and Norms (ACUMEN) project. Hadas tweets at @Hadas_Shema.
Robert Fares is a Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student at the University Texas at Austin, where he studies the economic and environmental implications of emerging grid technologies.Follow on Twitter @robertfares.
Bonnie J. M. Swoger is a Science and Technology Librarian at a small public undergraduate institution in upstate New York, SUNY Geneseo. She teaches students about the science literature, helps faculty and students with library research questions and leads library assessment efforts. She has a BS in Geology from St. Lawrence University, an MS in Geology from Kent State University and an MLS from the University at Buffalo. She would love to have some free time in which to indulge in hobbies. She blogs at the Undergraduate Science Librarian.Follow on Twitter @bonnieswoger.
Monday October 20, 2014
Sage Grouse and Oil Drilling Can Co-Exist, Says New Report
Physics Week in Review: October 18, 2014
Barbie Reincarnate - Only This Time She Looks Human
Censorship and Armored Cars, Circa 1914
Forever And A Day: Can Our Bond With Dogs Survive Death?
Terror skinks, social skinks, crocodile skinks, monkey-tailed skinks... it’s about skinks (skinks part II)
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KHCourage @marynmck Yep, my fav--used it from day 1! RT @marynmck tonight for the first time used @Square to sell some books.
holy wow that was easy.
marynmck RT @john_overholt: "Unix: Making Computers Easier to Use" a Bell Labs film from 1982: http://t.co/N7G6rnfRAM
