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Live cartooning AI4SD
As you may already know as well as making various silly comics ErrantScience also makes custom cartoons on request. A few weeks back I drew FOURTY FOUR of these…
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Lab news article: IF AI = 1 THEN Partridge = 0
Contemplating the potential for personal redundancy as a result of too much daydreaming, Dr Matthew Partridge risks another few hours musing over the benefits and limits of laboratory processes run entirely by super-efficient, highly focused AI and robotics…
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Store is shut (for now)
As of this week the ErrantScience store is closed. We’re very sorry for this as I know many of you enjoy our yearly xmas card and other badge goodies. Sadly however we have not yet managed to negotiate the complex and annoying Brexit based paperwork we need to keep the Read more…
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How to do social media for researchers, a talk for Boston University
So I don’t think we talk enough about all things that we do here at ErrantScience. Over the last year we’ve gotten really good at doing projects with people and then quietly moving the work from a folder called ‘do this’ to one called ‘archive’. This struck me as a Read more…
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Cartooning the squirrels and snow in Dr Duperat’s PhD thesis
So a few months back we were contacted by Marine Duperat a PhD candidate from Quebec working in Forest Sciences to commission a comic to go in her thesis. Marine went on to describe her life in the world of Forest Research and listed all the things she thought were Read more…
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ErrantScience, now also available in Italian!
So we’ve been making ErrantScience in some form since 2012 (this year actually marks our 9 year anniversary). Since then people from all over the world have read and (hopefully) enjoyed our cartoons, blog posts, animations and even on a few rare occasions, videos. The content we’ve made has changed Read more…
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All the live cartoons for #RSCPoster 2021
This year we have again been live cartooning the Royal Society of Chemistry’s amazing twitter poster conference RSCPoster. In 24 hours we produced 14 cartoon abstracts and one video. It was exhausting and lots of fun. You can read all the tweets we shared at the link below. ErrantScience RSCPoster Read more…
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Aim for something, anything!
To an outside observer research has a great air of focus, planning and careful consideration. From vaccine research to Nobel prize winning physics, research looks well organised and planned. To anyone that has ever worked in research then the reality is often confusion and a lot of eye rolling. But, Read more…
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How to be a resilient researcher
Humans are an inventive bunch. We’re not long out of the trees and our brains have already given us literature, art and the sciences. We are a creative species that constantly seeks to invent, create and problem solve. However, as smart as we are Nature is often one of the Read more…
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Measuring your Christmas lunch, scientifically
This Christmas to try and keep our scientific minds active and not despair at experiments lost but think to new experiments we can do. If we can’t do experiments in the lab let’s do experiments on Christmas!