First Post Ever

Welcome to Chiral Comments, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's new blog. We want to increase community participation here at the Society and this will be another channel of communication with members and the public.

I'm still working on my title here at ASBMB but it's something along the lines of platform-agnostic science communicator--but I'm pretty sure it will end up being way less nerdy in the end. Currently, I write the journal podcasts, news for the Society's web pages and press releases. I'm a web design person too, so you'll see my hand in new journal home pages, widgets, icons etc. Next month's (September's) issue of ASBMB Today will host my new column, Sci.comm, that will focus on communication technology and science, so this blog will be a testing ground for new ideas in science communication and hopefully a place to harvest a few new ones.

Aside from talking about communication, I'll also be looking into the environmental impact of scientific research and what some institutions are doing to address it.

I'll use this first post to solicit ideas on blogging. Is there anything out there that isn't getting covered? Who should be blogging about science, technology, politics and environment?

We already have contributors signed up who will bring a variety of other content to the table, from politics to the latest science news. Comments are always open, so please contribute to the conversation!