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Reading Diary: Marketing for Scientists by Marc J. Kuchner It's probably best to start with what Marc J. Kuchner's new book -- Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times -- isn't. It isn't a social media jackass recipe book for "Success through Twitter." It isn't a detailed...
Open Position: Climate Wiki Intern A small non-profit concerned with climate change is seking a "Climate Wiki Intern" which sounds very interesting. Knowing that many of my readers would be very good at this, It thought it was worth a blog post to point you in this direction:...
Liberate your Shoelaces, Flexagons! Ads of the World. Can business cards evoke creativity, spark interest? Standard business cards seem outdated, dull, uninspiring. Liberate your shoelaces, your flexagons!...
Job Posting: Science Librarian, York University Libraries Come work instead of me! Below is a posting for a 3-year contractually limited appointment in my unit. I'm chair of the search committee, so feel free to ask away with any questions about the position. I'll answer them to...
Looking for a postdoc? Here's an opportunity: you could work with Reed Cartwright at Arizona State University!...
Digital Assets Librarian, York University Libraries A terrific new opportunity at my institution. I'm not in the reporting department or on the search committee, but I'd be happy to answer general questions about York and the environment. My email is jdupuis at yorku dot ca. The...
Strange Résumé: Teleprompter, Surgeon, Guillotine Operator, Stand Up Comedian All In One Building a résumé that gets an employer's attention is serious business. Most employers need to be convinced that the candidate can be flexible and is an effective communicator. I have reviewed many résumés over the years, and this one...
A New Challenge, A New Job, and A New Chance "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance." -Abraham Lincoln It was nearly four years ago that I started blogging back at my old site, branching out from...
Wanted: Non-Academic Astronomer in Texas Someone from the American Astronomical Society ran across the Project for Non-Academic Science posts here, and is looking for someone to participate in a career panel at their upcoming meeting in Austin, TX: The American Astronomical Society (AAS) Employment Committee...
Teachers Get an Education The idea of the program is simple: To improve science education, invest in the teachers.
Geographic Astronomy Institution Maps Dmitri Veras at the IoA, Cambridge, has created an interactive set of maps of astronomy institutions around much of the world, take a look, especially if you are on the market... very nice. h/t AstroBetter current home of the...
The Price of Nobelity Less than a losing football coach, apparently:...
A Labor Day Big Announcement "But I'm also talking about American businessmen doing what they were born to do. Make things. We've stopped making and become a country of consumers. Well, I, for one, am done consuming. And I'm ready to make." -Jack Donaghy, 30...
Pseudonymity Is the Wrong Solution I don't think my point quite got across the other day, so let me try phrasing this another way. I think a lot of what's being written about pseudonymity on blogs is missing the real point. The really important question...
On the value of pseudonyms National Geographic--new owners, new crummy policies.
HOT TECHNOLOGY = COOL JOBS: An Advocate's Fight to Increase the Number of Students Entering Maintenance Technician Jobs What is your impression of these jobs? --Mechanic --Welder --Electrician --Air Conditioning Technician Despite the consummate skill and training that these and similar maintenance professions require today, they often still bear the unfortunate stigma in the public's eye of being menial "grease monkey" jobs -- occupations that (unlike many white collar four-year college professions) require workers to fix things and get their hands dirty. Therein lies both the challenge and mission of Joel Leonard, a Skill TV producer and host and self-proclaimed maintenance evangelist, as he warns America of the "Maintenance Crisis" that has enveloped the national landscape -- a situation that is leaving our industries and workplaces without nearly enough maintenance technicians to replace the Baby Boomer generation workers in such jobs as they retire.
Economic Astronomy II: Gender Shares of Jobs The other big gender-disparity graph making the rounds yesterday was this one showing the gender distribution in the general workforce and comparing that to science-related fields: This comes from an Economics and Statistics Administration report which has one of the...
Economic Astronomy: Gender Gaps in Lifetime Earnings There are two recent studies of gender disparities in science and technology (referred to by the faintly awful acronym "STEM") getting a lot of play over the last few days. As is often the case with social-science results, the data...
An Opportunity for STEM Professionals to Give Back Dr. Kit Nast, a psychology instructor at Bishop State Community College in Mobile, AL, is putting together a website filled with videos related to careers and college degree programs. He is looking for volunteers to help develop more Career Videos and College Program Videos related to the sciences for his site - www.drkit.org
Reference Assistant, Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University Come work for me! We have an 11 month opening here at my library for a reference assistant. The position doesn't require the library degree but a science background will be necessary. The posting is here. Posting Number: YUSA-7393 Position...
What Advantage Do "Insiders" Offer? Out in Minnesota, Melissa expresses some high-level confusion over the preference for people with a small-college background: In the past few months, I have been involved in several conversations where someone mentioned that a particular faculty member or administrator was...
PNAS: SM, Canadian Grant Officer (This post is part of the new round of interviews of non-academic scientists, giving the responses of S.M., a Canadian government employee who would prefer not to be identified by name. The goal is to provide some additional information for...
PNAS: Carl Knutson, Online Education Developer (This post is part of the new round of interviews of non-academic scientists, giving the responses of Carl Knutson, who works for a company making online learning systems. The goal is to provide some additional information for science students thinking...
PNAS: Brad Holden, Observatory Astronomer p>(This post is part of the new round of interviews of non-academic scientists, giving the responses of Brad Holden, of the University of California Observatories (which, OK, is affiliated with an academic institution, but this is not a traditional faculty-type...
Why Physicist Michio Kaku Is Wrong About U.S. Science Students: It's the Incentives, Stupid We are not bad at science. We are bad at supporting grownup scientists. And calling U.S. students stupid is a great motivator, don't you think?
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Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
The Loom January 31, 2008
Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006