As part of our social media class at UC Santa Cruz, a couple of classmates and I came up with the idea to create a site where scientists could easily share striking scientific images. (All of us used to work in lab and take pretty scientific photos that we didn’t know where to share.)
The site is called The Art of Science, do check it out when you get a chance. We’re trying to post at least one new image every day, and we hope to get actual scientists and graduate students to contribute.
And every Monday we’ll post the most popular image of the previous week. To get an idea of some of the images, you can check the new widget I’ve put up in the left column of this blog.
Also, we set up the site so that people can share their images directly. They can just send images in an email to [email protected]
(The subject line of the email becomes the image title, and the body of the email becomes the caption. And they can include any credit and contact information they want).
We hope to get people to share images on the site, and have contacted lots of scientists for images for it, hopefully they will contribute!