ScienceOnline 2011 was a blast and for those who couldn’t attend, Alok Jha’s wonderful and funny podcast captures the flavour of the event well. It’s a good case study for using a narrative (the Quest for Bora) to unite a fairly disparate series of topics. And also, I’m tremendously flattered by the stuff about me at the end. Apparently, “in a growing constellation of science bloggers, Ed is the North Star. As someone said on Twitter, ignored and irrelevant to an entire hemisphere…

A link I really didn’t want to have to point to: JR Minkel, a promising talent in the science writing community, recently took his own life at the age of 31. John Rennie has a moving,