2014 Christmas Lecturer to curate @RealScientists
As you may have heard from one of the many, many plugs we’ll be doing for it, Professor Danielle George is this year’s Christmas Lecturer at the Royal Institution of Great Britan, and will...
Monthly Archive: October 2014
The joy of insects – Aaron Pomerantz joins Real Scientists!
Our curator this week is entomologist and Amazonian adventurer Aaron Pomerantz. Despite patchy Peruvian internets, Aaron happily obliged to complete our compulsory entrance examination prior to beginning his stint on @RealScientists. Why/How did...
A DisCERNing Scientist; Clara Nellist Joins RealScientists!
This week we have the pleasure of introducing Clara Nellist as curator of RealScientists. Like all real scientists, Clara is crazy busy, and we’ll be sure to update the post when she gets a...
Guest post: Amanda Glaze, for Ada Lovelace day
My name is Amanda Glaze (@EvoPhD), and I study the intersections of science and society, specifically evolution, in the Southeastern United States. I am honoured and humbled to join you as a guest blogger...
Ready to Teach Us a Thing or Two, Darren Massa Joins RealScientists!
This week, prepared to get schooled! Darren Massa, a Middle School Science Teacher from Chico Country Day School in California, is taking over RealScientists! Darren normally tweets @darrenmassa, is a Google Certified Teacher (here’s hoping we get...
Once Upon Antarctica
Once upon a time there was an icy continent at the ends of the earth. It was a place for heroes, a geographical place to be conquered, a continent for peace and science, a...
The Very Chilled Out Veronika Meduna Joins Real Scientists!
This week our RealScientists intrepid curator is Veronika Meduna, Science broadcaster and writer for Radio New Zealand. Veronika also does freelance science communication work, and tweets @VeronikaMeduna. She has some pretty cool #scicomm under her belt...
Flying off into the sunset on a wingless fly: Farewell and thanks to Morgan Jackson
Two weeks ago (28th September) Morgan Jackson (@BioInFocus) took over the @RealScientists account for us and had a great week sharing his love of flies and taxonomy. We think that at one point he also...