Fiat lux Being a total dick on the web is easy. From the safe (and relatively anonymous) confines of your bedroom, place of work, mother’s basement, or Starbucks, and armed only with Internet access and the 1st Amendment, everyone can be a critic. Our brave new online world has given anyone with a keyboard a . . . → Read More: Awareness Through Scrutiny, Not Negativity: A DSN Core Value
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By RickMac, on  February 1st, 2012  10 comments  Editor's Desk, Opinion & Editorial, Scientist!  Climate Contrarianism, core values, Deeplings, Gulf Oil Spill, iron fertilization, Planktos, Scientist/Journalist, Scrutiny, tainted seafood By para_sight, on December 22nd, 2011 9 comments Uncategorized core values, culture, culture of science, Education, Megafauna, ocean literacy, Open Access, Science Communication, Science Outreach When the DSN crew gathered for our inaugural retreat recently, one of the core values we agreed on was “promoting ocean literacy”. This value is something that just about everyone in marine science agrees on (example, example, example), but what does it really mean? Marine scientists and marine educators have an intuitive sense of what . . . → Read More: Promoting Ocean Literacy – a DSN Core Value
By Miriam Goldstein, on December 19th, 2011 6 comments Education core values, culture of science, DSN mission, humor, TWSS If someone listened in on the conversation in the Deep Sea News underwater lair, they might conclude that we were a bunch of scatological mind-in-the-gutter sex fiends in need of serious Freudian analysis. They would not be wrong. Never have six people over legal drinking age so enjoyed “That’s what she said” jokes. All of . . . → Read More: Reverently irreverent: a Deep Sea News core value
By Dr. M, on December 5th, 2011 8 comments Education communication, core values, culture, Funding, Journalism, journalist, media, outreach, stereotypes, taxpayer, Worlds Apart A month ago, I spoke of DSN’s new pathway for dialogue about the oceans and ocean science. We have committed to demystifying and humanizing science in an open conversation that instills passion, awe, and responsibility for the oceans. Part of this vision for DSN was establish a set of core values that transcended just this . . . → Read More: Direct from the bench and the trench: a DSN core value
By Dr Bik, on November 16th, 2011 24 comments Open Access, Scientist!, Uncategorized core values, culture of science, DSN mission, Open Access, Scientist! Glamour magazine, where the HELL are female scientists in your annual “women of the year” awards? Year after year, you honor female actresses, fashion designers, politicians, activists, athletes and models. You bestow awards on some truly amazing people, who have made it their life’s work to change the world and spread messages of peace, hope, . . . → Read More: Changing the Culture of Ocean Science: a DSN core value
By Dr. M, on November 8th, 2011 12 comments Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Education, Scientist! Air Tran, board room, call to action, conversation, Coral Reef Alliance, core values, dailogue, Georgia Aquarium, mission statement, ocean literacy, ocean science, outreach, purpose, vision statement If they know it, they will love it. If they love it, they will protect it. My wife, with over a decade of nonprofit experience, spoke those words to me six years ago . She was describing how she viewed what I was striving for with Deep-Sea News. Those words still ring true to me. . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Future of Deep-Sea News
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