On Thursday, 18 July, the winners of the Science Haiku Competition 2019 will be announced. In this lightning blog series, we asked our jury members to share their impressions of this year’s entries; stay tuned for more! Dr. Sam Illingworth is a Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, where his research involves […]
We are happy to announce The Crastina science haiku competition! The challenge is to describe your research, alternatively your work or studies in the STEMM field, in the form of a haiku.
Dr. Eric Chudler, a neuroscientist from the University of Washington, has been engaged in outreach activities for many years, targeting adults, students, and children. His Little Book of Neuroscience Haiku represents a unique way of conveying the function and the wonder of the human brain. Crastina got in touch for an interview. Maintaining balance Cerebellum, […]
More often than not, the words “science” and “poetry” in the same sentence are met with a look of disapproval. To the thought process among most, the convergence of these two vastly different fields seems rather unfathomable. And unfortunately, this consensus – that science and poetry cannot be on the same page – breaks the […]