What is Agile Science? I still don’t know, but as a former molecular biologist who is writing about Agile issues for organisations like Softhouse and Scania, I certainly like the sound of the expression. Feel free to join me on my exploration! In 1921, the Italian Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello published his play Sei personaggi […]
A multinational team, lead by Vienna-based Dmitry and Alex Chekh, is currently preparing the launch of a new kind of knowledge resource on the web. Stelum is an online collaborative platform for short explanations to which anyone can contribute. ”Our goal is to give the reader a simple explanation, which will help them grasp any […]
“Text, text, everywhere, Nor any message to get.” Paraphrasing Coleridge, we introduce this month’s theme: ”short & punchy”. Our column writer is Olle Bergman, Swedish freelance writer and project leader of Crastina. Exhibit A: The Decalogue, or Ten Commandments, hugely impacted the world since the 7th century BC. And yet it was printed (according to tradition) on just two stone […]
During 2016, Kelley Swain has been one of three poets in residence at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. “It’s a safe bet that poets will be interested in being ‘in residence’ at your institution,” she says. The residency has been a part of the Visions of Nature year and included three established UK poets who are known […]
Can the accessibility of a scientific article be improved if the original abstract is interpreted in poetic verse? Sam Illingworth – SciComm teacher at Manchester University and science poet – recently decided to explore this. The study: Are scientific abstracts written in poetic verse an effective representation of the underlying research? Hi Sam, how did you get the idea […]
Lale Byquist refused to let her glossophobia—i.e. fear of public speaking—stand in her way. Her method? “Learning everything about the fear of public speaking and ways to conquer it”. Her structured knowledge now makes up the website presentationskills.me. This web article concludes the theme “Using oral communication to inform, inspire and instigate”. Hi Lale! The way you […]
Thomai Dion, who calls herself pharmacist, mom, author, artist and science communicator, believes it is never too early to start learning. Therefore she created the “Think-A-Lot-Tots” collection of educational children’s science books. Here she shares some reflections on her project. [The title Animal Cell is reviewed here.] It is within some of the most unanticipated […]