Katie PhD.

So you want to be a science writer? Pearls of wisdom from Carl Zimmer

Tweet Last Monday my lab-mate said, “are you going to the Carl Zimmer thing?”. “Huh?” Said I. “What Carl Zimmer thing?” “He’s doing a talk on Thursday evening. Oh and office hours in the afternoon.” After scraping my jaw off the floor and berating myself for not reading the weekly email that would have informed [...]

Project PB and J

Tweet I suspect one or two of you might be mildly confused that I have a post entitled “Project PB and J”, and why there is a giant picture of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Let me explain. I have a friend named Cindy who writes a blog called Once Upon a Loaf. She [...]

I sketched #BBBos

Tweet On Saturday I took a trip up to Boston to attend the first annual Blog Better Boston conference. Appart from having to get up at 5am it was an awesome day. The organizers (Amy Allen and Alana Brooks) did an amazing job: There were great panel discussions, more intimate workshops, and a whole host [...]

What exactly is a genetically modified plant?

Tweet Over the last few months I’ve been forced to think about the agricultural giant Monsanto. On the one hand I know someone who went to work there, someone I hold in high regard. And on the other hand I see repeated calls to action in the social media (by people I count among my [...]

I sketched #scio12

Tweet I just got back to lab after a few days in balmy North Carolina where I attended the amazing un-conference, ScienceOnline2012 (#scio12). There are lots of great posts appearing about the conference (such as this one from Ed Yong) that speak to the amazing atmosphere, the great conversations, and the liver-capacity of the ocean [...]