What would it take to preserve all vertebrate life, and to what end?Read more…
Science Corner: The Word for ‘Gene’
I think it’s worth remembering that roughly 100 years ago, no language had a word for ‘gene.’Read more…
Science Corner: Throw Open the Gates of Science
The quality of our science will increase proportionately with and as a direct consequence of the diversity of our scientists.Read more…
Snapshots of “Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?”
I recommend Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science by Ian Hutchinson (and related videos) as a resource for personal questions, conversation, an interactive discussion group, and / or presentation preparation.Read more…
Science Corner: Summer Science News Round-Up
We’ve had a busy summer–traveling, going to the movies, releasing a book–leaving less time to talk about current research. And there have been several recent stories making the rounds in Christian circles. They touch on questions many of us haveRead more…
Science Corner: Giving Thanks for 6 Years of ESN Science Blogging
Next month will be 6 years that I’ve been blogging about science and related topics for the Emerging Scholars Network. Which means that just about exactly 6 years ago, Tom Grosh called me up and invited me to write forRead more…
I Found a Postdoc in the Sciences: Now What? (Pt 2)
We figured it was time for a follow-up on what to do once you’ve found the postdoc you were looking for.Read more…
I Found a Postdoc in the Sciences: Now What? (Pt 1)
Postdocs occupy a weird, liminal space in the path of the scholar.Read more…
8/20 Christian Get-Together at American Chemical Society Meeting
Friend of ESN Andy Bocarsly is the speaker for a meetup of Christians at the American Chemical Society in Boston on August 20. We hope lots of ESN members can make it. Read more…
Sciences at ESN This Fall: What Are You Looking For?
Here’s your chance to let us know what you’d like to read about this fall from ESN’s science coverage!Read more…
Faith and Science: A Book Contract and Fall Resources
As we engage with the 2018 American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meetings at Gordon College, we thought it would be good to share the Emerging Scholars Network’s STEAM Grant Series which is in the process of editing for a campus ministry resource through Hendrickson Publishers. Read more…
Science Corner: Fruit Flies Like a Banana… And We’re Closer to Knowing Why
With the American Scientific Affiliation meeting coming up this week, I’ve got connecting on the brain. And now after catching up with the science news, I’m also thinking about the connections in the fruit fly brain.Read more…
Science Corner: Where to find me at the ASA Meeting
Getting a chance to chat face-to-face is a big reason I’m making the trip to Massachusetts. To make those meetings easier, here is my schedule.Read more…
Science Corner: To Infinitesimal and Beyond!
And so we have a hero who saw the vast gulf of experience and communication between himself and other living creatures and decided to build a bridge.Read more…
Science Corner: Science, Ho!
This story about citizen scientists contributing their time at sea to science caught my eye.Read more…
ESN Local Boston: Hear Francis Collins at ASA 2018
Local to Boston? ASA wants to make it easy for you to hear Francis Collins and connect with ESN on July 28. Read more…
Hear Francis Collins at ASA 2018 ($300 Travel Scholarships Available)
Want to hear Francis Collins? Connect with ESN in person? Go to a faith/science conference on the beautiful grounds of Gordon College, near Boston? Read more…
How can Christians in science support science literacy among believers? (STEAM Grant Series)
In short, scientists must become disciplemakers and reproduce disciples who will also become scientists.Read more…
Science Corner: Ashes to Ashes, But What of Synthetic Dinosaurs?
This reflection on the themes of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom avoids spoilers, but as always feel free to wait until you’ve seen the movie if you want to know nothing about it when watching. It is widely reported that anRead more…
Science Corner: Lightning in a Novel
In essence, modern biology has grown up alongside Frankenstein and the science fiction genre.Read more…
Summer Book Suggestion: Strange Survivors by Oné Pagán
You are all but guaranteed to learn something new about God’s creativity as expressed through nature’s endless forms and to enjoy a chuckle in the process.Read more…
How should Christians in the sciences choose an epistemology? (STEAM Grant Series)
I used to teach a college course called “Epistemology” but the name scared off too many potential students, so we changed it to “Theories of Knowledge.”Read more…
Science in Review: A Droid in Every Garage
What it does with ships, Solo also does for droids, taking a ubiquitous feature of the setting and giving them their day in the twin suns.Read more…
Adam, Where are You? (STEAM Grant Series)
How much have you read about different models of human origin, from either a scientific or theological perspective?Read more…