Science Education & Policy

Perhaps it's resolution-making hangover inherent in the start of a new calendar year and simultaneous beginning of another semester, but I've felt particularly optimistic about my future in graduate…

The biomedical field is feeling crowded. I blame women. And the data back me up: This slide is from FASEB, which compiled a bunch of helpful graphs based on various sources of data about the…

Research finds no advantage in learning to read from age five says a press release from the world's southernmost university, the University of Otago in New Zealand. Comparing children from…

I been a bonsai artist for over 12 years or more, I lost count . I have had the privileged to work with some bonsai masters from around the world. President Clinton when in office and a bonsai master…

What is one of the key secrets that a great grant writer knows, but that most other people don’t? Let’s use a story to explore this one. In middle school I was a very disengaged student. I struggled…

I AM RICE A reading activity on the Digestion of Carbohydrates By Camilo Apita Tabinas I would like to share this method of teaching the topic on digestion of carbohydrates. This worked with my…

Old Scientists Dominate Funding I've written about this multiple times before, but it's never to soon to visit the skewed age distribution of NIH grants, via Marginal Revolution: Paul Romer is…

A small segment of scientists are not in favor of skepticism; primarily if it happens to be in their discipline.   But a group of cancer researchers welcomes it and asks for even more. Writing…

Back in August, I gave a talk at the Pacific AAAS meeting explaining why research scientists need to blog. After a long delay to put my incomprehensible notes in to readable (but still somewhat…

This isn't news anymore (see here, and here), but Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief of Science has weighed in on the out-of-whack system of incentives in the biomedical sciences: Assuming that the…