A Scicurious CV

In which Sci can boast about herself.

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Professional Honors

• Winner of the Top Quark Award for the 3 Quarks Daily 2011 Prize in Science.
• Official blogger for the Experimental Biology meeting, 2011.
• Semifinalist in the 3 Quarks Daily 2010 Prize in Science:
• 46 posts featured in the New York Times/ScienceBlogs link exchange
• Winner of the PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month for December, 2009. “Zicam and your Nose”
• 25 posts featured in the Editor’s Selections for Researchblogging.org
  • "Women's Brains on Steroids"
  • “The incredible healing mouse”
  • “Dopamine and Obesity: the D2 Receptor”
• Selected Official Blogger for the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2009.
• Guest Editor of The Open Laboratory: The Best of Science Blogging 2009 Blogging Anthology.
• Winner of PLoS ONE 2^nd Anniversary Synchroblogging contest
• Featured in The Open Laboratory: Best Science Blogging 2008 Blogging Anthology. “Uber Coca, by Sigmund Freud”
• Featured in The Open Laboratory: Best Science Blogging 2009 Blogging Anthology. “Addiction and the Opponent-Process Theory”
• Featured in The Open Laboratory: Best Science Blogging 2010 Blogging Anthology. "The antidepressant Reboxetine: a *headdesk* moment in Science"
• Nominated for Eureka’s Top 30 Science Blogs at the Times Online.
• Winner of Research Blogging’s Blog of the Year Awards: Neuroscience category, 2009.

Publications

• Featured in The Open Laboratory: Best Science Blogging 2008 Blogging Anthology. “Uber Coca, by Sigmund Freud”
• Featured in The Open Laboratory: Best Science Blogging 2009 Blogging Anthology. “Addiction and the Opponent-Process Theory”
• Featured in The Open Laboratory: Best Science Blogging 2010 Blogging Anthology. "The antidepressant Reboxetine: a *headdesk* moment in Science"
• Guest editor: The Open Laboratory: The Best of Science Blogging 2009 Blogging Anthology.

Invited Oral Presentations

• Panelist ScienceOnline ’09: Web and the History of Science, presented with SkullsintheStars and Brian Switek
• Panelist Scienceonline '11: How to Explain Science in Blog Posts
• Session Leader, ScienceOnline 2012: Sex, gender and controversy: writing to educate, writing to titillate, with Kate Clancy
• Session Leader, ScienceOnline 2012: Next generation scientific society and conferences, with Lou Woodley

Service

• Founder: Scientopia, a Science Blogging Collective. Founded August 8, 2010.
• Organizer: Scientopia Thanksgiving Writeup: Nov. 22-26, 2010: Writeup of what Scientopians are Thankful for in Science and Medicine, with participants of the Scientopia Collective and beyond.
• Organizer: Scientopia Women's Health Writeup: Sept. 27-Oct 1, 2010: A writeup and analysis of health writing in women's magazines, with participants of the Scientopia Collective.
• Organizer: ScienceBlogs Zombie Day, July 1, 2010: A synchro-blogging groups effort on all aspects of zombie life, with participants from ScienceBlogs.

Blog Carnivals and Features:

• Featured Article at The Guardian, May 18, 2011. "The postdrome: migraine's silent sister"
• Featured Guest Blogger at The Scientific American Guest Blog, March 28, 2011. "Serotonin and Sexual Behavior: Is it really that simple?"
• Featured Guest Blogger at The Scientific American Guest Blog, Nov. 30, 2010. "The Antidepressant Reboxetine: A "headdesk" moment in science"
• Featured Guest Blogger at The Guardian Blog Festival, Sept. 28, 2010.  "If low serotonin levels aren't responsible for depression, what is?"
• Featured “Blog of the Week” at the Charlotte Observer, April 5, 2010.
• 18 posts featured in the Encephalon Blog Carnival (http://www.sharpbrains.com/resources/encephalon-blog-carnival/)
• 10 posts featured in the Giant’s Shoulders History of Science Blog Carnival (http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_4722.html)
• 2 posts featured in the Praxis Blog Carnival (http://www.layscience.net/?q=blog/32)
• 3 posts featured in the Tangled Bank Blog Carnival (http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_39.html)
• 4 posts featured in the Scientia Pro Publica Blog Carnival (http://scientiablogcarnival.blogspot.com/)
• 2 posts featured in the Carnal Carnival (http://carnalcarnival.wordpress.com/)

Featured "Appearances":

• Interviewed on Skeptically Speaking Episode 142 "Science is a hell of a drug..."
• Interviewed on the CBC Technology show Spark "Pseudonymity Online", Sept, 16, 2011.
• Interviewed on Skeptically Speaking Episode 115 "Cell Phone Science", Jun. 5, 2011.
• Interviewed on Skeptically Speaking Episode 105 "Making Science Funny", Mar. 27, 2011.
• Interviewed on Skeptically Speaking Episode 100 "Semen Science", Feb. 25, 2011.
• Interviewed at the Guardian's Science Weekly Podcast: How Blogs are Changing Science, Jan. 24, 2011.
• Interviewed for Science Career's: Science Blogging and Tenure, Jan. 28, 2011.