"Science is sexy and it is our job to tell everybody that"

Yesterday, I saw in twitter the link to a very interesting post published in Agora, the L'Oréal-UNESCO for women in science blog. And the reason is very simple. They posted Ingrid Scheffer's speech at the inaugural SOBR (Student Of Brain Research) in Melbourne. I loved her speech.

She talked about how important is to communicate our science to the non-scientists. She covered different issues from how to prepare a powerpoint to how to talk to the media. Quite a few and very interesting things in not many minutes.

So, here you have the videos of her speech. I hope you enjoy them as much as me. Becasue... "Science is sexy, and it is our job to tell everyone that." Never forget it.

Giving people the chance to take part in Science funding : the SciFund challenge

Published originally in Agora, the blog of the L'Oreal Foundation for women in science. This is my post in that blog about the SciFund challenge.

It’s obvious that the economic crisis we are suffering is affecting science. We are seeing science budgets shrink quite quickly all around the world. We are seeing scientists struggling to find money to do their research. We are seeing a decrease in the trust of governments and institutions in research. And this is going to last for a while. But it is in moments like this that creative ideas arise.

Diversity & Soaps Operas for Better Science Communication

A couple of weeks ago Abby Tabor from MyScienceWork contacted me asking to interview me for an article about science communication that she wanted to write. I said yes and the result of that and other two more interviews gave as a result an amazing post that you can find in the Agora forum, For Women in Science community and in MyScienceWork blog, Multidisciplinary Research News. I hope you like as much as I do.

Baking Science and Cancer

Fission yeast

Post originally published in the L'Oreal Foundation for women in science blog Agora

When they asked me to collaborate with this blog I asked what they expected from me to write about. The answer was very simple:  “write about your field of expertise”. So here I am, ready to tell you quite a few things about… YEAST!!! Yes, you have read it right: Yeast.  But don’t worry; this is still a blog about Science, not a baking one. And I won’t talk just about yeast, but also about other research done in the field I work in now (cancer) and can be interesting for you.