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April 6, 2026
Surviving and Thriving during the AAAS STPF Executive Branch Finalist Week
Congratulations on making it to finalist week! Finalist week can be very busy and hectic, particularly as you request and navigate interviews with host offices you are interested in. My goal with this post is not to overwhelm you, but to offer several strategies for starting finalist week off on the...
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April 7, 2017
The President Should Heed the Business Community on Climate Change
This post was written with the assistance of Lauren Smith-Ramesh (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis) and Susan Kalisz (University of Tennessee) President Trump is a businessman. His goals have included minimizing risk where possible...
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March 27, 2017
Feedback: Turning on Directions
This is the first post in a mini-series on Sci on the Fly that will explore questions about feedback. This post asks: How can real-time feedback fail us and what makes it potent? The hit television show, The Office, has a laughable scene that reveals a...
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March 25, 2017
Spa Day for Your Brain
Alzheimer's is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that slowly erases the very thing that makes us who we are—our minds. While major advances in neuroimaging have allowed us to visualize structural, functional and temporal features of the brain in great...
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February 25, 2017
Science: Applying the Basics?
When I first met my husband, I belittled his science. I was a toxicologist, studying the impacts of coastal pollution on our beloved winter flounder. He was an ecologist, studying, as far as I could tell, minnow poop. "Why would anyone do that? Who cares about...
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February 22, 2017
March for Science: The Blurry Line Between Values and Facts
Scientists of all backgrounds are fighting back against anti-science rhetoric sweeping American politics. They are speaking out, planning runs for office, and organizing a worldwide March for Science on Earth Day 2017. One point of particular focus is...
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February 5, 2017
Federal Data Sharing
This post accompanies the Sci on the Fly podcast “ Data Science.” In the last Sci on the Fly podcast on data science, several data scientists were asked “What is data science?” Although each data scientist thinks of data science differently, one conversation...
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February 4, 2017
Embrace a Career Sidestep: Write a novel
Ever thought about taking a career sidestep to write a novel? Seriously. Issac Asimov was a biochemistry professor before he started to write science fiction ( I, Robot; Fantastic Voyage; and 500 more novels). The astronomer Carl Sagan wrote Contact. Michael...
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January 30, 2017
Can you spare the time?
For centuries, we’ve survived with wristwatches that kept time accurate to within a few minutes per year. Yet early in 2016, a timing signal broadcast an error of only 13 microseconds, which in turn disrupted telecommunications and other networked computers...
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January 20, 2017
Book Review Section
Our Reading List Welcome to a new feature of the Sci on the Fly Blog! Are you looking for your next great read? Are you in the middle of a great read and want to tell everyone about it? Please do! These are the books we, the blog editors, are reading now: The...
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December 15, 2015
Science and Technology Innovation: A Star Wars Retrospective
It’s a moment that a whole generation of kids have never forgotten. A simple phrase on a black screen, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….,” followed by a crash of cymbals and trumpets sounding the main title theme of Star Wars as the opening text...
