Interview with Dr. Caren Cooper on Citizen Science, Crowdsourced Memory, Santa’s Climate Woes, Traffic Fatalities, Horizontal Boogie, Savage Chimps, Antler Fibers, Tabby’s Star Transition, Antimatter Matters, Vaccinations For Cows, And Much More…

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Twas ye ole winter solstice

and all through the lab

were bits of odd science

stem cells, horseshoe crabs

Kiki, the doctor,

was in her white coat,

Justin drank beer,

while Blair studied stoats.

When out from the galaxy

rose such a sound:

it was physics, and skeptics,

there was research all ’round!

The discourse was merry

the guests were all there

the chatroom was chatting

it was science, with flare!

It was bosons, and dark matter,

a chicken, err… t rex.

All on this week in science…

coming up next!!

Interview with Caren Cooper, Research Associate Professor, Forestry and Environmental Resources at north Carolina State university, and Jointly appointed as Assistant Head of the Biodiversity Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. She is an advocate for the practices of Citizen Science, Open Science, and Science Communication, pursuing scholarly inquiry into these areas, and bringing them all together to achieve Public Science. Her book, Citizen Science – How ordinary people are chang...