Are you using this blog for teaching, studies or writing?
Dear readers (Yeah, I’m talking to both of you!)
If you are a school teacher, college professor or any kind of other educator, trainer or science writer, and if you have ever used this blog in your line of work, please let me know. Also, if you are a student and used this blog as a source, please let me know. I would like to assess the impact of this blog for several reasons, including grant proposals and for a general assessment of the outreach and community impact of my department.
So: if you have used this blog in any way in your line of work (reading this blog to avoid work does not count, unfortunately), please tweet me (@iddux), or email me: idoerg ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com or just comment on this post. Please include:
Name
Profession / employer
How many posts did you use (roughly) and for what purpose? For example: “high school teaching, 3 posts”.
In the past year I have forwarded links to 2 of your posts to the computational biology mailing list at UCSC (which includes grad students, faculty, staff, alumni, and undergrads):
http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2012/10/04/synopsis-of-career-paths-in-bioinformatics/
http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2012/10/18/open-job-how-did-the-gulf-oil-spill-affect-the-oceans-microbiome/
I’ve also forwarded one link to the AP Biology teachers’ mailing list:
http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2012/08/13/zombee-watch-a-new-citizen-scientist-project/