#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Fitzgerald (Curtis): Woof
Pepe takes another case in Waverly Curtis’s (actually Waverly Fitzgerald’s) latest book about the barking detective and chihuahua extraordinaire. Dog lovers and mystery solvers will want new book, The Chihuahua Always Sniffs Twice and the newly available ebook ofA...
DeWeerdt: The Spectrum Expands
In The Atlantic, Sarah DeWeerdt explains the genetic basis for the saying, “If you’ve seen one kid with autism, you’ve seen one kid with autism.” Genetic analyses are finding hundreds of genes involved in autism. An unexpected benefit: The studies are also connecting...
Lang: Guiding Writers of Stats
If you’ve stumbled over stats, Tom Lang can help. His new paper for the Equator Network (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) is a set of straightforward guidelines about reporting statistics for common analyses in biomedicine. For more, check...
Koopmans: Pocket Rwanda
New for your Kindle, Andy Koopman’s Rwanda (The Evolution of Africa's Major Nations). If all you can recall about the country is ethnic wars in the 1990s, get an update from Andy’s fact-filled, up-to-date book. Prefer reading about Seth Rogen? Andy’s got you covered...
Matrajt + Weeks: Not for Women Only
Graciela Matrajt announces a updated newsletter for the Association for Women in Science, Seattle Chapter. NSWA member Reitha Weeks is the president of Seattle AWIS. The newsletter has researcher profiles, “Recent discoveries and achievements,” and an events calendar....