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Our little contribution to science funding: the SciFund challenge
Nowadays we are suffering an economic crisis and one of the fields that is noticing this a lot is the scientific research. National and regional governments are cutting their budgets and some of the...
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Opening post of the VIII Edition of the Carnival of Chemistry
It looks like the VIII Edition of the Carnival of Chemistry starts today!!!! And this month I have the honor of hosting it here, in this blog. The quality of the last edition, that Eroyuela has hosted...
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"You've got to find what you love""Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition"- Steve Jobs-
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Oh my cold!
I’ve had a cold for several days and I hate it. What I hate the most is the running and stuffy nose. But the problem with cold is that you cannot cure it. The only thing you can do is to pass it and...
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Crystal violet lactone
This is not a post written by me. This post is been written by a proper chemist called Sarah Murray who lives in Manchester, like me. You can find her in twitter as @SarahScientist I hope you like...
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SciFund is really happening!!!
Last month has been crazy. Apart from the regular work in the lab I've been doing something else. Something different... and quite fun I have to say. It´s been a month of thinking about how to explain...
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The "Blogfather". Interview with Bora Zivkovic
There is a new science communication project in Spanish. A free online magazine of science communication called Journal of Feelsynapsis. This initiative comes from an online community of scientists...
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Have your say in the European Research Area
We are always complaining about the fact that the public organisations don't listen to us. Governments, universities and international organisations usually write laws and regulations not taking into...
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Diversity & Soaps Operas for Better Science Communication
A couple of weeks ago Abby Tabor from MyScienceWork contacted me asking to interview me for an article about science communication that she wanted to write. I said yes and the result of that and other...
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Giving people the chance to take part in Science funding : the SciFund challenge
Published originally in Agora, the blog of the L'Oreal Foundation for women in science. This is my post in that blog about the SciFund challenge.It’s obvious that the economic crisis we are suffering...
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The greatest show on earth (Symphony of Science)
Symphony of Science is a very interesting project that brings scientific knowledge and philosophy to the public in a new way, combining science and music. John Boswell, the musician and producer behind...
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Yeast in Cancer Research as a case study in the TEDxBrooklyn
I've just discovered that my project "Cancer? Yeast has answers" was one of the examples that Brian Meece, the CEO of RocketHub, mentioned in his talk about crowdfunding science at the...
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Are journalists from Mars and scientists from Venus?
Are journalists and scientists from different planets? Do they speak different languages? Are they forced to not understand each other?These questions are framed in a long debate that looks like a...
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When the budget is low: the "Flip a coin" experiment
In these difficult times this may be the research that we are left to do :-( ... I hope not
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How scientists see the world
I've just found this comic and I think it's great so I want to share it with you all... World View (cartoon) by Abstruse Goose
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Job (in)stability in the early stages of the Research Career
Back in January I took part in the wrap up event of the public consultation on the future of the European Research Area (ERA) organised by the European Commission: "ERA Conference 2012: Fostering...
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It has been possible thanks to you
Yes, my SciFund project has been possible thanks to you. This is the post to thank all the fuelers who contributed to it for that and to thank other people who helped also with other things.First of...
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Open-Source Cancer Research
I'm always interested in cancer research and recently I became very interested in open data. Open data is a great tool. It's based on sharing the knowledge. And this is always very good. Mainly for...
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"Science is sexy and it is our job to tell everybody that"
Yesterday, I saw in twitter the link to a very interesting post published in Agora, the L'Oréal-UNESCO for women in science blog. And the reason is very simple. They posted Ingrid Scheffer's speech at...
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