Download the Universe
Download the Universe is an awesome new site focused on reviewing digital-only science “books”, by which they mean predominately ebooks or apps. Their editor list reads like a who’s who of current...
View ArticleUsing the iPad in research
Macworld has a nice piece highlighting how the iPad is being used in research, mostly serving as a Swiss Army knife in the lab and field: Such hikes used to require a number of different tools: a...
View ArticleScience apps
The Mental Floss blog has an article on what I was talking about yesterday: Scientists have started to use the abilities and prevalence of smartphones to their advantage, creating apps specifically for...
View ArticleAJB Special Issue on Tropisms
I am honored to have a paper in this month’s American Journal of Botany, a special issue focused on plant tropisms. Below is a collection of links highlighting some of the work:...
View ArticleDefining success in summer research
Yesterday marked the first day of the summer research season. One of the things I really like about my job is the cycles of the academic year: the excitement and anticipation of the new school year...
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Evernote in the lab
This summer the lab is using Evernote again as an organizing tool for our work. I upgraded to a premium account on a month-by-month plan to test and see how well it would work, and so far it’s...
View ArticleWriting about science for the public
Some good bits of advice for writing about science for the public, including this one: Readers can be very clever, but it is not their job to know all of the words that you and the twelve people you...
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