Uncategorized

Hey, Miss Producer!

By Louise Crane / September 15, 2012

Hello everyone. I thought it was about time to introduce myself. I’m Louise and I’m the producer for the ScienceGrrl Calendar 2013. What does this mean, exactly? Well, to use my favourite literary device, the analogy, and my favourite animal, the swan: I’m the webbed feet of a magnificent, beautiful bird, paddling furiously to keep…

Read More

What’s up, Doc?

By Dr Heather Williams / September 11, 2012

One of our Twitter followers asked how those not connected to us via the joys of social networking can keep up-to-date with what ScienceGrrl are doing. I directed them to this blog… and then had an “ahhhhhhhhh” moment when I realised I hadn’t actually updated it very recently.  So here is the Director’s update. Beware…

Read More

#MFScience survey – the results are in

By Dr Anna Zecharia / August 29, 2012

The 24 hour flash poll* was simply this – find a non-scientist and ask them to name famous scientists: one male, one female. Then we sat back as the answers came in. And they did! Thick and fast, mostly through Twitter but also via our Facebook page – and by generally bugging our own family…

Read More

Laser Shoot

By Dr Ellie Cosgrave / August 21, 2012

Monday the 13th was laser day, which made for a great start to the ScienceGrrl week! We all gathered outside UCL where we were met by Lia- our laser scientist. She escorted us up through the corridors to the security protected laser-lab. Jumpers on. It turns out laser labs are kept quite chilly because the…

Read More

What a difference a day makes

By Dr Heather Williams / August 17, 2012

After last night’s post, I thought it was time for a brief update on what so many of our Twitter followers may be wondering… so what happened yesterday? What did I miss? I decided back in July that I really needed to come down to London about once a month whilst we are working on…

Read More

Leading the conversation

By Dr Heather Williams / August 16, 2012

In her opening blog for ScienceGrrl, our producer Louise Crane described me as ‘leading the conversation’. On reflection, I think this is a fairly accurate description of my role as ScienceGrrl Director. I joined Twitter back in May, after reading an article about how more researchers needed to join to promote their work, network with…

Read More

Welcome to ScienceGrrl 2013

By Louise Crane / July 29, 2012

Hello! This is the blog for ScienceGrrl 2013. We’ll use this to write updates about the project and the production of our calendar, as an addition to our website and Twitter feed. If you’ve come across this by chance, let me explain the project. ScienceGrrl 2013 is run by individuals who came together on Twitter to discuss…

Read More