About

Everyone needs science, and science needs everyone.

This site is focused on practical challenges we face as human beings doing science. Recurring themes, as always, will involve the process of science, the academic job market, publishing, getting funded, mentoring, equity and justice, collaboration, teaching, running a lab, and so on. This site grew out of the popular blog Small Pond Science, which I started in 2013.

Want to know more about me? I'm Terry McGlynn: Here you go.

Subscription is absolutely free, and always will be! To receive this by email (about once per week, maybe twice), please do subscribe. Did I say it's free? That's because it is.

Please know that if you subscribe for free, you don't have to get the posts by email if you don't want to! You can then just read here on the website and have full access to commenting if you're so inclined. So if you want to support me in spirit but don't want the emails, please subscribe and then immediately switch off the emails!

Now that I've told you why everything is free, here's why I'm asking you to throw a few bucks my way to help me run this site. [The rest of this is just like an NPR pledge drive, so feel free to change the channel and go read The Onion or something and it won't hurt my feelings.] I've been at this for a long while, and while it's a cliché, this is a labor of love. Call it a blog or a newsletter or a website, I've been doing this for an extremely long time. What keeps me going is sporadic feedback with stories about how this site has made a big difference once in a while. That's what keeps me going, I believe this feedback. But flattery is free, and I have to admit that once I created the mechanism for fellow scientists to pay for a subscription, it made me feel better about my work here. Because it's not just for the community, it's of the community. Yeah, it's me writing, but it's built on relationships, and when folks are willing to support this place with a few bucks, that helps me consider this to be reciprocal and in my head canon, it keeps me accountable.

Everything here will always be free. No perks for people who pony up. When students subscribe (at the very low requested student rate), that means just as much to me (Actually, I think it means a little bit more.)

Now that I am operating Science for Everyone on a high quality newsletter platform that is certifiably Nazi-free, it's gotten pricier. That's because the better platforms ask you to pay for your service as a function of subscribers, rather than skimming off the top of all of your subscribers. I prefer this business model. Getting new subscribers makes my day! And since I'm picking up a few every day on average, that means that every day has something in it. But also, each new subscription ever so slightly nudges up how much I need to pay Ghost to keep this place running smoothly. So your small contribution keeps me from paying for this out of pocket (like I did to keep Small Pond Science ad free for a decade). This site is at no cost, just like public radio, and will always be that way. But do consider subscribing.

Cover art was commissioned from Meredith Wilmott. All other images used on this site have been appropriately licensed.