Welcome to "i do science"!

I'm a scientist. You're an artist. Why is it that you can tell me about your work while I'm unable to tell you about mine? Why does saying "I do scientific research" shut down conversations?

It appears that people develop a fear for science once they leave elementary school. This wasn't always the case: don't you remember being intrigued by things such as dinosaurs? Outer space? Back to the Future? These are all subjects somehow connected to science, and they are (or at least were) sources of curiosity for most of us during our youth.

When, then, was it okay to start rejecting science as something "for the smart people"? Aptitude is not equated to intelligence; it is sad that we have been somehow trained to believe so. Moreover, it seems that scientific culture has fostered an isolationist community, that doesn't seek to connect with the every-person.

This little website/blog/online forum of mine seeks to bridge a gap that was somehow fostered in all of us: science can be for everyone. And not just science news, but actual real-live science!

You will find on this site an attempt to communicate scientific papers - the flesh and blood of academic science - in a way that hopefully you, a non-scientist, will understand. Scientific papers are written in such a way that they are indeed filled with jargon, with excessive verbosity, with unintelligible references to concepts that are abstract and hardly transparent. My hope is to break down these walls that the scientific community has erected, with the intention of tell you, dear reader, about scientific research (that may not make newsstands) and more importantly, about the scientific process to which all scientists cling.