Hello It’s been a little while since I last updated the blog. In fact, I think it’s been a lot of a while since I spoke to the community at all! Sorry about that. Since my last update on what we’re going with ErrantScience things have been very, very busy. Read more
First conceived in 2015, RSCPoster is the Royal Society of Chemistry online-only worldwide social media poster event. Originally tagged #RSCAnalyticalPoster it was designed to be an event that was easy to attend and easy to engage with, for chemistry researchers all around the world. In 2017 it rebranded #RSCPoster and Read more
If there is one universal shared experience that I can, with some confidence, claim all researchers share then it is the love of free food. Be it biscuits, fruit, small strangely shaped corn things or sweets, every researcher feels the flutter of excitement at the addition of the word free Read more
Last week we put up a post on Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon asking for some sciency ideas to cartoon. We asked because first off we wanted to draw the things you want to see and secondly it’s always important to make sure there are not areas that are missing some Read more
Research is in many ways a subject of debate. Ideas are presented with evidence and through repetition and discussion they are tested and examined. Every discovery or methodology in science is subject to inquiry, dissection and disagreement because that is at the very core, the point of the scientific method. Read more
We love cartoons. I doubt that comes as a shock to you, what with us being an entirely cartoon-based blog. But not only do we love the cartoons we make but we love basically all science cartoons and nothing would make us happier than there being hundreds of other science Read more
Someone sent us a brand new version of Barbie Girl by Aqua specifically for Chemists and it’s great!
A few months back we were contacted by Dr Johanna Kerch from the University of Göttingen in Germany looking for some cartoony help in helping convey the fun world of ice re-crystallisation.
New technology and science exist right on the edge of what we understand. The thing that sometimes stops it from working may be far advanced from our understanding and can be ultimately, just magic.
Every year the Royal Society of Chemistry runs an amazing Twitter poster conference called RSCPoster. The conference runs for 24 hours and has thousands of participants from all over the world posting posters and talking chemistry! As with previous years, we drew cartoons live during the event for a whole bunch Read more