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The Just Science Challenge: We Accept

By Trevor | January 17, 2007

There is a movement afoot, known as the Just Science Challenge, that aims to have science bloggers post only about science for the week beginning Monday, February 2 and ending Sunday, February 8.

During that time each blogger should post about science only, with at least one post per day. Furthermore, issues which are favored by anti-scientific groups (creationism, global warming, etc.) should be either avoided, or discussed without reference to anti-scientific positions.

Since the challenge calls for at least one post per day and this site’s curator is a full-time student, half-time researcher, full-time husband and father, I have asked Stephen Rekow (aka Shane) to assist with the week-long event. (I just realized that Mr. Rekow has all of those same responsibilities, plus his son is much younger than my 13-year-old. Good thinking, Trevor.) Shane is also an undergraduate researcher at WSU, and has been working at the lab and on our project for much longer than I have. You should go ahead and jot down his name if you’re a researcher looking for molecular biology grad students. His publications, oral presentations of research, and awards/scholarships as an undergrad are nearly unheard of, and he will most likely teach your postdocs a few things about good wet lab work.

With that said, we plan on covering some of the latest epigenetics research articles, and will most likely traverse some terrain that this site has never been across before (such as the wide world of epigenetics research in plants). Hopefully these posts will be informative and educational for both the students (that would be us) and the readers (that would be you).

If you write a science blog, I would encourage you to accept the challenge. So far, it looks like the following blogs have also accepted the challenge:

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    One Response to “The Just Science Challenge: We Accept”

    1. razib Says:
      January 17th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

      great to have you on board!