Last week, a clam video went viral. (Get your mind out of the gutter, internet! I mean a bivalve! A mollusc! A lamellibranch!) For people who know how clams actually live, the misconceptions of this video are obvious. That’s not the clam’s tongue, that’s its foot. The clam is trying to use its foot to . . . → Read More: Secrets of the clam tongue: a case study in opportunistic science outreach
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  July 16th, 2012  11 comments  Education, Scientist!  bivalve, Clam, media coverage, Media Hype, misconceptions, Science Outreach, viral video By Dr. M, on February 12th, 2012 Leave a comment Education, Evolution Darwin Day Road Show, evolution, outreach, Science Outreach [View the story "Darwin Day Road Show: Day 4" on Storify] By Dr. M, on February 8th, 2012 Leave a comment Education, Scientist! Darwin Day, Darwin Day Road Show, Education, outreach, Science Outreach [View the story "Darwin Day Road Show: Day 3" on Storify] By Dr. M, on February 7th, 2012 Leave a comment Education, Scientist! Darwin Day, Darwin Day Road Show, outreach, Science Outreach [<a href="http://storify.com/DrCraigMc/darwin-day-roadshow-2012" target="_blank">View the story "Darwin Day Roadshow 2012" on Storify</a>] 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 April 19th, 2011 2 comments Uncategorized classroom, Funding, GK-12, Obama, outreach, science education, Science Outreach Just a few months ago in his State of the Union address, President Obama called for more science education. As always, this is desperately needed to counteract anti-scientific political antics. From a Wired pieces called “7 Science-Education Battlegrounds of 2011″: Less than four months into 2011, lawmakers in seven states have proposed nine pieces of . . . → Read More: Why is a successful NSF science education program being cancelled?
By Miriam Goldstein, on January 27th, 2011 12 comments Opinion & Editorial outreach, Science Outreach, sex, Women in Science I attended the women in blogging session at Science Online, and I’ve been watching the discussion on women in the blogosphere with some bemusement. My personal experience seems to be quite different than that of many others, but I can’t help seeing a strange disconnect between the current earnest discussion of how to get more . . . → Read More: Let’s talk about sex (in science)
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 15th, 2009 3 comments Expeditions, Scientist!, Social Sciences Beagle Project, Brazil, CBOL, CoML, Darwin, HMS Beagle, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, Paraty, Science Missionary, Science Outreach, South America The fabulous Karen James and I will blogging and tweeting the “party in Paraty” starting this Thursday! There is an exciting line up of events which will include: A celebration of Darwin and to put his work in context with the work of international collaborations like Census of Marine Life and Consortium for the Barcoding . . . → Read More: Join DSN and the Beagle Project in Brazil
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