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Announcing Errant Science: Clutter
Today we’re launching a whole new part of Errant Science, the brand new and shiny Errant Science sister blog Errant Science Clutter.
Today we’re launching a whole new part of Errant Science, the brand new and shiny Errant Science sister blog Errant Science Clutter.
ErrantScience, unlike the rest of the world has had a good year. If I was to sum up this year on ErrantScience in one word it would be “social media”. You may argue that “social media” is two words but again if we’ve learnt anything this year it’s that social media is not very picky about ‘facts’.
So today marks my 203rd blog post *sets off imaginary fireworks* which is a milestone I felt worth celebrating. Why 203 and not 200? Well that’s because 203 is a happy number. I can’t go celebrating on an unhappy number, that just seems wrong. One thing you may not know about me is Read more…
Today, I am attending a special workshop on academic writing and social media, that is being held at my university. So I thought that while I am listening to the current advice, I would share some of my own thoughts about blogging that I have gleaned over the last 3 years Read more…
This is my first post to Occam’s Irregulars and when I was planning out what I wanted to write, I though that I needed something that was going to have a splash and get plenty of clicks. But that sounded hard and possibly requiring of either talent or some kind of Buzzfeed-esq list format. So instead, I’m going for the much easier option of increasing the competition to the point where I can claim that the 10 views I get is totally understandable what with all those new science blogs that just started up.
Social media and science is not for everyone. I am a prolific user of Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and Vine videos (also occasionally Facebook) and I post tons of content. When my experiments go wrong the very first thing I normally do is photograph it and post it to Twitter. I’m not Read more…
So today I had planned to start a new series on my blog called “The Secret Diary of a post-Doc, aged 31 and 3/4”. If the title didn’t give it away, it was to be a diary format posted once a month, detailing my world of post-Doc’ing in a style more akin to a certain similarly named novel than my usual fare.
So it’s been a whole year since I started Errant Science! 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8765 hours, 2921 laser warm ups (old system). Given that I’ve now been doing it a year, I thought it was time to share some statistics on how this site has been getting on. Read more…