Now catching up with the tasks I intended to do months ago. Here is a report on the reader questionnaire for Polar Vortex. Thanks to everyone who completed that. Sorry this is a bit technical and written for science communication evaluation nerds (I have done courses on this). I’ll write something fun, with Pinkie Pie in it, next week...

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I encountered this on a Facebook comment thread and decided that, since we're headed into flu season, it deserved a response, because this kind of "warning", devoid of context and clarification, is really just scaremongering. I'm reposting it here because this is important, and because Twilight would want us to stand up for scientific accuracy.

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Update - story published: Time on Their Hooves

I've almost finished the first draft of a new story, which at over 25,000 words, is my longest to date. It still needs a lot of work before it will be ready for publication. Like most my stuff, this one has a good dose of science, but (I hope) it also has significant merit as a story.

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It’s that time of year, readers! The nominations for the 2018 Dragon Awards are open!You can click the link and nominate this last year’s (July 2017-End of June 2018) best Science-Fiction and Fantasy novels for the running of … well, the best!

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Cave Johnson here and I just want to let it be known that here at Aperture Science we take Science Heresy extremely serious. So if you hear any of your fellow employees say that what we do here in not science then please inform the nearest security post and well send them to the Test Track as our next test subject!

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It must be time for me to write another particle physics blog post, telling a story from the quest to find new scientific phenomena and resolve the mysteries of the universe. With pictures of ponies. So here we go. Prepare to learn all about Lepton Flavour Universality. To enhance your blog reading experience, first go and get a smoothie.

Are you ready?

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Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie lay on the grass in the middle of a field of reclaimed prairie on the site of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, together with a group of the resident buffalo with whom they had just made friends. In the distance they could see the distinctive shape of the high-rise laboratory building of Wilson Hall.

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"Smolder: the Dragon Tutor" and "Changeling Civil War" have been added to my story "My Little Galaxy: Star Trotters" and revoked as singular submissions.

If you're interested in seeing those ideas expanded, please check it out

Elderflower’s story of the Together Trees in Father of the Bridlewood gives me an excuse to fact-check a science story that I have been meaning to look into for a while. She says, “Together Trees communicate and connect magically to each other through their roots underground.” This sounds like something that has featured in quite a few books and documentaries in recent years—the idea that threads of fungi connect tree roots underground and allow plants to exchange nutrients and

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One of the frequent topics of discussion in laboratories around the world is “How can we improve the gender balance of physics?”

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Okay guys, before reading any of this, I would like to point out that I'm of Catholic raising, which kinda sorta makes me Catholic myself (no practicing, but I agree with the doctrine), but also a follower of objectivism (yes, the Ayn Rand one) and raised in a country known for producing deadpan snarkers like it's nobody's business (mi Chile lindo). With that in mind, my response over the next "article" is way more emotional than rational and in some ways not taking itself too seriously,

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Introduction:

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Glaciers, Gender, and Science

Abstract: (Emphasis mine)

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Going back to school for a degree in economics. I've dropped out twice, hopefully third time's the charm! It's weird being surrounded by 18-year-olds again.

I want to bring socialism to America, and I figure people will take me more seriously with a degree.

Thanks to everyone who has read and commented on chapter 2 of Rock Farms and Nuclear Reactors. It's really great to see just how many readers have gone along with my crazy idea of casting Pinkie Pie as a nuclear engineer.

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I’ve posted a personal story on my Particle Gadgeteering blog, “3D Dreams: A Tale of a Science Communication Adventure with the Welsh Animation Industry, which didn’t happen”. This might interest anyone curious about animation production. This is also a sort-of prequel to my involvement with Fimfiction as it got me into animations and thinking about ways to mix fiction and science.

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According to Arthur C Clarke's excessively quoted words of wisdom: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. [1]

It's a nice line. Cute, concise, and sufficiently unscientifically defined that it can be either true or false depending on how you choose to interpret it.

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Trigger warning: Extreme nerdiness

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Jake the Army Guy has put together a survey for a cultural anthropology course. He's specifically looking into why people may develop strong connections to fictional characters or stories. As with most projects, more data can only help. Go give it a look if and when you can.