May 15, 2013

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I am one of the winners of a ScienceSeeker award!

By Hannah Waters

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American

The winners and finalists of the inaugural ScienceSeeker awards were announced yesterday, and I'm honored to announced that two of my posts were selected! I won Best Biology Post for The Narcissism of De-Extinction, which was published on this very blog, and was a finalist for best science-art post for Photos of Starfish Up Close: What Are You Looking At?, published at Smithsonian.com's Surprising Science blog. Thank you to the judges and editors behind the awards and the site.

For the uninitiated: ScienceSeeker (a project of ScienceOnline) is a website that collects and filters science blogs. Anyone can submit a blog and, to date, there are more than 1,500. Each post is aggregated by topic on the main page, and editors select their favorites for each topic. It also serves as a citation manager for research-based posts, generating a clean citation that also gets pulled onto ScienceSeeker.

I wasn't the only Scientific American blogger to be honored; check out the full list from blog editor Bora.

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And all the other bloggers on the list, ones known to me and not, have fantastic reads honored. Please check out the full list, and especially (if I may) Rebecca Kreston of Body Horrors on the earliest known cases of AIDS, Aatish Bhatia of Empirical Zeal on how language shapes how we see the world--in color, and Virginia Hughes (the winner of the best post of the year) on the medical case of a woman who couldn't stop sleeping.

Congrats again to everyone involved!

Hannah Waters is a science writer fascinated by the natural world, the history of its study, and the way people think about nature. On top of science blogging, she runs the Smithsonian's Ocean Portal, a marine biology education website, and is science editor for Ladybits.

Hannah is a child of the internet, who coded HTML frames on her Backstreet Boys fanpage when she was in middle school. Aptly, she rose to professional science writing through blogging (originally on Wordpress) and tweeting profusely. She's written for The Scientist, Nature Medicine, Smithsonian.com, and others.

Before turning to full-time writing, Hannah wanted to be an oceanographer or a classicist, studying Biology and Latin at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She's done ecological research on marine food webs, shorebird conservation, tropical ecology and grassland ecosystems. She worked as a lab technician at the University of Pennsylvania studying molecular biology and the epigenetics of aging. And, for a summer, she manned a microphone and a drink shaker on a tour boat off the coast of Maine, pointing out wildlife and spouting facts over a loudspeaker while serving drinks.

Email her compliments, complaints and tips at culturingscience at gmail dot com.

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