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Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space

Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space

Shannon Bohle has experience with NASA, is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in the UK,  is a lifetime member of the Cambridge University Astronomical Society, and has held  Professional memberships in the AAAS, the British Society for the History of Science, The National Space Society, The Planetary Society, and The Mars Society. She is  a registered consultant for the Science and Entertainment Exchange run by the National Academy of Sciences.  Read more

Tear Down These Walls

Tear Down These Walls

Buddhini Samarasinghe is a molecular biologist with experience in cancer research. She completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow, UK and then recently completed a postdoctoral position at the University of Hawaii. She is the co-creator of the science communication website Know the Cosmos. She is also a passionate science communicator, engaging the public with current research in the life sciences. Where possible, she uses original research papers and describes the science minus the jargon! She is also involved in science outreach through broadcasts on YouTube and other social media sites.  Read more

When science becomes personal: a role for personal life in advocacy

When science becomes personal: a role for personal life in advocacy

Stephani Page is a PhD candidate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics.  She is a member of the Bourret/Silversmith Lab in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology.    … Read more

Give conservation a sporting chance

Give conservation a sporting chance

Alastair Driver, Environment Agency National Biodiversity Manager, has the honour of inclusion in Who’s Who for “distinction and influence” in the field of environmental conservation. He is one of the most experienced river and wetland conservationists in the UK, with a growing international reputation in the field of catchment management. If you’d told me 35 years ago, after I’d scraped through beer-and-sport-fuelled university with an ecology degree, that I was going to make a living out of conservation, I’d have suggested you should be sectioned. But the fact is that there are now literally thousands of people out there who are professionally employed in conserving and restoring our still beautiful, but quietly ailing natural environment. In fact, there are 200 of them in the Environment Agency alone.  Read more

Predators in the publishing jungle

Predators in the publishing jungle

Ian Woolley is an infectious diseases physician who trained in Australia and the United States and who works at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne. He is also Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Monash University. In 2012/2013 he completed a sabbatical with the Manson Unit of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) UK during which he helped MSF respond to an outbreak of hepatitis E in South Sudanese refugee camps.   … Read more

Crossing the great divide – moving between academia and industry

Crossing the great divide - moving between academia and industry

Luke Devey has joined the GSK Esprit R&D Programme as a Director of Translational Medicine. He completed his medical training at the University of Oxford and worked in Oxford, Newcastle and Edinburgh before going on to do an MRC-funded PhD at the University of Birmingham. In 2008 he was awarded an Academy of Medical Sciences/The Health Foundation Clinician Scientist Fellowship, which he undertook alongside training in transplantation and general surgery in Edinburgh.  Read more

The presence of a chemical is not the same as presence of risk

The presence of a chemical is not the same as presence of risk

Dr. Schwarcz’s is currently a chemistry professor at McGill University and the Director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society. He also hosts “The Dr. Joe Show” on Montreal’s CJAD and has appeared on The Discovery Channel, CBC, TV Ontario and other networks. Dr. Schwarcz has received numerous awards for his work, including the American Chemical Society’s Grady-Stack Award for demystifying chemistry and the Canadian Chemical Institute’s “Montreal Medal” recognizing his lifetime contributions to chemistry in Canada.   … Read more

Can we raise woolly mammoths from their Pleistocene graves?

Can we raise woolly mammoths from their Pleistocene graves?

Sharon Levy is a freelance science writer who specializes in making natural resource and conservation issues accessible for a broad audience. She is the author of Once and Future Giants, a book that introduces the idea that Ice Age megafauna extinctions hold important lessons for modern conservation. She lives in Humboldt County, California.  Read more

Scientific publishing 2.0: moving the compute to the data rather than moving the data to the computers

Scientific publishing 2.0: moving the compute to the data rather than moving the data to the computers

Adrian Giordani has a Masters in Science Communication from Imperial College London, where he was also the Editor-in-Chief of I, Science magazine. He is currently a science journalist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. The publication he works for, International Science Grid This Week, covers news about science and computing in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific regions. Adrian writes about technology such as supercomputing, grid computing, cloud computing, volunteer computing, networks, big data, software and the science it enables. You can follow him on Twitter.  Read more