Career-building opportunities for plant scientists – apply now!
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Publications are important, but these days it takes more than a couple of nice papers to move your career to the next level. Also, increasingly scientists are looking outside the (academic) box for their next career move. ASPB provides many ways through which scientist can build their careers and…
Celebrating women in STEM through @365womeninSTEM
Blog, Careers, Careers - Blog, Multimedia, Profiles of Plant Scientists, UndergraduateFrom abstract algebra to zoology, women participate in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM), but sometimes their stories are not as well known as those of their male colleagues. To remedy this, PhD student Josie Maidment is conducting a one-year Twitter education campaign called "@365womeninSTEM,"…
iBiology - Magdalena Bezanilla: Understanding Cell Shape
Blog, Curated Webinars / Video Lectures, Education, The Plant Cell, The Plant Cell: News, WebinarsMagdalena is a Reviewing Editor for The Plant Cell and a Professor at UMass Amherst. Here she describes her research interests in a series of videos published by iBiology.
A set of three video lectures, published by iBiology on May 2, 2017
Part 1: Understanding cell shape: Big insights from…
The SingAboutScience.org database: An educational resource for instructors and students
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Setting something to music is a well-known method for supporting learning (think about the alphabet song that you learned as a child). Gregory J. Crowther has assembled a searchable database of science-themed songs, along with lesson plans and suggestions for how to use songs in your teaching.…
Alan Alda's Experiment: Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us
Blog, Careers, Education, Education General, Skills and Advice, Writing/Reviewing/Publishing/CommunicatingAn NPR interview with Alan Alda about his efforts to help scientists learn to communicate.
"People are dying because we can't communicate in ways that allow us to understand one another," he writes. "It sounds like an exaggeration, but I don't think it is. When patients can't relate to their doctors…
Why can't scientists be better communicators? (SciAm blog)
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Author Katherine Wu highlights some of the challenges that interfere with scientists communicating.
She says, "Both scientists and non-scientists must commit to not only communication, but also a drastic reassessment of how we communicate with each other. I believe mending the rift starts with…
Australia's giant parasitic Christmas tree, with blades sharp enough to cut telephone wire
Blog, Education, Education General, Education General PublicHere's a fascinating plant in honor of Fascination of Plants Day #PlantDay
By Tim Low, published in Australian Geographic
AUSTRALIA HAS A PARASITE believed to be the largest in the world, a tree whose greedy roots stab victims up to 110m away. The Christmas tree (Nuytsia floribunda) has blades…
Plant Scientists in the Wild (#FoPD)
Blog, Education, Education General, Education General PublicGuest post by Emily Larson @erlarson_phd and Maria Papanatsiou @m_papanatsiou, postdocs at the University of Glasgow, Scotland
If there is one stereotype about some scientists that contains a shred of truth it is that we are definitely indoor kids – at least professionally speaking. We spend a…
How to make a DNA Bracelet
Activities, Activities, Blog, Education, Education General, MHS Activities, Middle & High School, UndergraduateCross-posted from Kelsey Wood with permission. Kelsey is a PhD student at U.C. Davis.
How to make a DNA bracelet, from any organism and any gene!
I study plant-pathogen interactions, so I chose to make a sequence from a wild tobacco gene that is important for plant defense against pathogens.
What…