#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.
Gibbs and Henson: Back of the Book
In 2010, Judi Gibbs told John Henson, ScienceWire founder, about the secret lives of indexers (click GibbsJWH for the pdf). buy levitra canada It’s not that indexers want to be secret—it’s that readers, writers, and editors don’t really understand what they do and how...
Apfel: Going Long
Amelia Apfel explores the threat of short-term funding to long-term environmental research with the help of the Ensia Mentor Program. The program gave her the time and column inches (or screen scrolls) to dig into how a scientific community came together to advocate...
Golard: Know When to Fold ‘Em
Neuroscientist Andre Golard reaches back to our caveman days to explain why we find the advice “cut your losses” so painful. Start folding in a card game or selling your stock and your amygdala broadcasts strong loss aversion signals. Fortunately, Andre (@AndreGolard)...
Kantor: Brewpub Roots
Celebrating the Seahawks? Sylvia Kantor, writer for the College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State University, wants you to know the origins, the terroir, and the roots of that celebratory glass of local beer or booze. Sylvia gives...
McElroy: Networking Ensued
Linking to Molly McElroy’s NSWA post is bit ouroboric (a recent word of the day). But NSWA Vice President Molly cheerfully organized and promoted the annual holiday networking bash, got the best photo props ever, and wrote up the event for NSWA—all while tending to a...