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On science blogs this week: In the pink

Susan G. Komen for the Cure looks to be on life-support after defunding Planned Parenthood. A new theory-of-everything calls into question the peer-review process and institutional public-information offices. Yet more on #SciO12: the music video, the enemies of science, and making book on e-books.

On science blogs this week: SciO12 too

All about ScienceOnline2012 (#SciO12). The meeting, the people, the blogging, the videos, the commentary, the tweets, the Storifies.

On science blogs this week: SciO12

Alleluia! Next week is the blogger's Holy Week: ScienceOnline 2012. Here's how you can be there even if you're not there. Also links to the program, the people, and everything else #SciO12. Including a session on how to create an eBook, organized by Carl Zimmer and me.

Science writing salary survey

The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is updating its Guide to Careers in Science Writing and is conducting an anonymous salary survey of science writers to ensure the guide contains up-to-date salary information. They would very much appreciate your taking a few moments to fill out and submit the brief survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7RJ9KNQ.

On science blogs this week: The Best

We begin 2012 with bloggers' lists of 2011 highlights. Sex, retractions, weather, videos. Also, a timeline for the tale of faster-than-light neutrinos.

On science blogs this week: Bits

Some success at last for gene therapy. Microbes in living color. Whither the Higgs boson, not to mention particle physics? Brief hiatus.

Science and risk communication: Two peas in a pod or Mars and Venus?

There is a good deal of academic research that focuses on risk communication, social construction of risk, and how certain theories apply to communicating with specific populations about specific issues. We saw several papers over the last few months that really help provide some context about the world views of our audiences. From the Fall 2011 ScienceWriters.

On science blogs this week: Astrobiology

Hurray, NASA has found Earth's twin orbiting a sun-like star! Or is it? Should we be searching only for life-as-we-know-it? Pardon Alan Turing. Open Lab 2012 winners. Once more, are bloggers journalists? Big news about the Higgs boson next week?

Mistakes in scientific studies surge

When a study is retracted, “it can be hard to make its effects go away,” says Sheldon Tobe, a kidney-disease specialist at the University of Toronto. And that’s more important today than ever because retractions of scientific studies are surging. From the Fall 2011 ScienceWriters.

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