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[hellhounddesign]

HELLHOUND Design is launching its new small press line with the first edition of the Galactic Mythos zine. This will be a high-quality, hand-bound limited run of zines.

Artists: colour is encouraged! Writers: if you have any illustrations to accompany your work, we’ll to our best to incorporate them!

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[ravnclaw]

Science Magazine Applications

Hello!

Around 2 weeks ago, I created this post about my desire to start up a science magazine!

Thankfully, many people were interested, so I have created a formal list of positions right here! Applications are right here. If there is a problem with any of the links, please let me know. Please fill out the typeform as well.

For now, I will be having a team of 6-8 people around since this is still pretty new. However, I will be adding more people onto the team as this progresses!

Anyway, please fill out both applications and send me an ask or a message with the link to your completed application. Because I will not be coming up with the magazine name until I form a team, I will not have an email address for the magazine until later.

The application will be due on August 4, 2017. Applications sent after this will not be considered.

*edit: you may apply for more than one position.

[scienceisalsowoman]

I am part of a bridge generation: the middle of three generations of women working in the sciences. My mother, a cognitive scientist and tenured professor, received her Ph.D. in 1961. I earned my Ph.D. in 1985 and am now a tenured professor of neurobiology. My daughter is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in biology and looks forward to a career in scientific research. Looking across the three generations in my family, I see huge improvements in the experience of women in science, but obstacles still remain for my daughter's generation.

[scienceisalsowoman]

magine a student presenting a poster at a scientific meeting, thrilled when a senior scientist stops by to view the work. Chances are good, given the continuing underrepresentation of women at senior levels of academia, that the senior scientist is male. If the student is also male, he likely has no doubt that the senior scientist wants to learn more about the research. If the student is female, she may wonder: Does he want to get acquainted with my work, or me? This is the scenario that Meg Urry of Yale University, current president of the American Astronomical Society, posed during a session on “Forward Focused Ethics—What is the Role of Scientific Societies in Responding to Harassment and Other Workplace Climate Issues?” at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2015.

[davidrussellschilling]

Self-Adaptive Micron-Scale Material Heals Itself

Self-Adaptive Micron-Scale Material Heals Itself

C O N T E N T S: KEY TOPICS The material, called SAC (for self-adaptive composite), consists of sticky, micron-scale rubber balls that form a solid matrix.(More…) The material has the ability to heal itself and to regain its original shape after extraordinary compression.(More…) POSSIBLY USEFUL Compared to existing self-healing and self-stiffening materials, SAC offers distinct advantages in the…

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[scienceisalsowoman]

Science Careers, a part of the journal Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is the leading resource for job listings and career advice in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Science Careers

[callstheadventurescience]

"Separation from loved ones during postdoctoral training is practically a rite of passage, among other sacrifices supposedly proving one's commitment to science. There is a persisting culture in academia that holds that training should be a struggle, perhaps even a hazing process; that declares that because some in the past succeeded through suffering, others must continue to do so in the future." A solid read by Gary McDowell.

[pulitzercenter]

After this test showed Shane Ryan's blood was negative for the AIDS virus, Magnet's nurse practitioner Pierre-Cédric Crouch (background) offered him anti-HIV drugs to prevent infection. Image by Drew Bird. United States, 2015.

AIDS: Means to an End

After what Shane Ryan calls “a silly, stupid weekend” in late April, he joined the many other men in San Francisco, California, who line up six mornings each week and wait for the doors to open at Magnet. Located in the city's Castro district, Magnet provides sexual health services for gay and bisexual men. Last year, the center diagnosed 37% of the new HIV infections in the city. Ryan, like most of the other men in line, came to find out whether his condomless sex had the consequence he feared. “Usually, I'm very safe, always precautious, but I went a little sidetracked that weekend,” Ryan said.

Ryan, who is 24 years old and grew up in Ireland, met with a nurse practitioner, who explained that he could immediately start taking antiretrovirals (ARVs). This so-called postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) might abort an infection if indeed he had been exposed to HIV, the nurse explained. Ryan began taking a pill each day that contains four ARVs.

Read the full story by Pulitzer Center grantee Jon Cohen for Science Magazine.