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Halloween Science Costumes
A Halloween costume based on antibiotic resitance went viral. What other scary science Halloween costumes can we dream up?
Stories by Katie McKissick
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Confirmation Bias
A comic about confirmation bias.
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The Problem with Experimenting with Megan Amram
A critique of "Experimenting with Megan Amram," a show produced by Amy Poehler's Smart Girls at the Party.
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Using Instagram for Science Communication
Ways to use the Instagram medium to promote science and science education.
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How to Hold Your Own Board Meeting
How to put together a board meeting for your personal brand.
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We Are All Broken
How Mariette Marinus turned a meditation on suffering into a series of animal characters
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Battling the Burnout Monster
It happens to everyone, supposedly. You're being productive. You're working hard. You feel like you're moving forward, but it feels laborious, like you're going upstream. And then, suddenly (or not so suddenly), you run out of steam, hit a wall, fall on your ass...
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Is the next antibiotic just sitting on a shelf?
I recently did a comic for a non-profit called CO-ADD. Based at the Universtiy of Queensland in Australia, this effort asks chemists to send in compounds they’ve developed and for free, CO-ADD will screen them for antibiotic properties...
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It's Pollinators Week!
Did you know it's Pollinators Week? Find out what you can do to help our wonderful pollinators.
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Learning Anatomy with Candy
Medical student Michael McCormick makes diagrams of organs, tissues, and molecules made from candies, cookies, and fruit as candyanatomy on Instagram. ...
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Science Hobbies
I recently got a job at NASA writing content for students on websites like Space Place. Luckily for me, astronomy is one of the easiest subjects to get people excited about. I mean, who doesn't like outer space and stars and comets and asteroids and—there is so much cool stuff!...
Science Board Games, SciArt in the Crowd Edition
I love playing board games, and my favorites are ones that involve science in some way. I’m always on the lookout for crowdfunding campaigns for science board games, as it’s a great combination of science art and science communication...
Tube Worm Thoughts
On the heels of science art about how “we all eat the sun,” I was thinking about the few exceptions to that rule. As my high school biology teacher would often say, “Always and never are never true in biology!” But when the ecosystems surrounding hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean were discovered [...]..
We All Eat the Sun; Content-Rich Science Art
I talked about the art of Rachel Ignotofsky a while back after I found out about her amazing work featuring famous (and should-be-famous!) women in science — a series she continues to expand...
Gardening Friends and Crocodile Meals
While I was digging in the garden over the weekend, I made lots of new friends. Whether they liked it or not. Was digging around in the garden today, much to the surprise of the local earthworms, rolie polies, ants, and spiders...
“New Beginnings” in Comic Form
Here at Symbiartic, we’re exploring themes from the perspectives of a fine artist (Glendon), a scientific illustrator (Kalliopi), and a science comic (moi).
Crowdsourcing Women in Science and Engineering
I could statistic you to death about how women are still underrepresented in science and engineering, but let me just give you this one about what dismal progress we're making: between 2000 and 2011, the proportion of science and engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to women remained flat...
Viral Inspiration
Exactly three weeks ago I started feeling awful. It’s been 21 days of a viral roller coaster — getting better, feeling worse, coughing, bruising ribs (from all the coughing), getting sick of cough drops, and running out of tissues...
Naked Mole Rat Self-Esteem
January is weird. We make resolutions (or at least are told we should be doing so) with the aim of bettering ourselves, and we’re marketed a slew of diets, fitness club memberships, and exercise equipment to lose our holiday weight, so it all takes on a negative tone pretty fast...
I Am a Tired Koala
Finishing up 2014 is really exhausting me. Running holiday errands all over the place. The sun sets annoying early (for us northern hemispherians).
