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An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.

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Seed Announces Matching Funds for 2008 ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge

Seed just announced that it will be matching up to $15,000 in donations to this year's ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge. This is great news, and if you haven't donated already this is a great reason to do it now. There's only one...

Posted on October 23, 2008 3:55 PM • 0 Comments •

DonorsChoose Update: Let's Step it Up!

Seed announces prizes for donors, so now there are more reasons than ever to donate to my challenge.

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Posted on October 14, 2008 5:15 PM • 0 Comments •

We Need You to Help Fund Science Classrooms! ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge 2008

Give early and give often!

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Posted on October 1, 2008 5:00 PM • 0 Comments •

ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge Raises over $69,000 for Science Classrooms

Thursday was the last day of the month-long DonorsChoose challenge, and ScienceBlogs did incredibly well. You can view the full leaderboard here, but Janet of Adventures in Ethics and Science offers these details: 20 Sb blogs mounted challenges; 12 of...

Posted on November 3, 2007 12:08 PM • 0 Comments •

DonorsChoose Bloggers Challenge Update

We've raised $295 at The Scientific Activist on just one week, but we still have $705 to go.

Posted on October 8, 2007 6:00 PM • 0 Comments •

ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge 2007: Let's Raise Some Money for Science Classrooms!

It's that time of the year again, so give early and give often!

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Posted on October 1, 2007 9:39 AM • 0 Comments •

Free DonorsChoose Gift Certificates Available from Six Apart Until Noon Today

This announcement is related to another bigger one that's coming in just a few hours. Six Apart (who runs MovableType, the blogging platform we use at ScienceBlogs) is giving away $30 philanthropic gift certificates for use on DonorsChoose. The only...

Posted on October 1, 2007 7:01 AM • 0 Comments •

Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Good Science-Related Causes

A categorized list of several worthy causes for readers interested in supporting those working for the progress of science in our society.

Posted on September 4, 2006 7:37 AM • 4 Comments •

Results of DonorsChoose Challenge

The ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge is now officially over, and Janet Stemwedel has the results at Adventures in Ethics and Science: 195 of you made donations. Together, those donations added up to $16,097.27. You also helped 4 of the 19 challenges meet...

Posted on July 2, 2006 6:10 PM • 2 Comments •

DonorsChoose Update

The latest word on the ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose fundraising challenge is that as of Tuesday the total amount of donations had reached $12,325.59, plus $10,000 in matching funds from Seed. Here at The Scientific Activist we've raised $345.00 in generous donations, bringing...

Posted on June 22, 2006 7:08 PM • 0 Comments •

Welcome!

It looks like I have quite a few new people coming to the site today to read about some pretty bizarre chemistry, so if you happen to be one of them, I'd encourage you to have a look around the...

Posted on June 19, 2006 9:30 AM • 0 Comments •

ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose Challenge Off to a Great Start

As I've spent my entire weekend alternatively sitting in front of a ginormous magnet running NMR experiments and in front of a computer screen analyzing the data from those experiments, the blogging has unfortunately been light. However, I just wanted...

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Posted on June 18, 2006 8:40 PM • 2 Comments •

Help ScienceBlogs Raise Money for Science Classrooms

DonorsChoose.org gives us a way to help teachers get the job done. A bunch of us at ScienceBlogs have set up Bloggers Challenges which will let us (and that includes you) contribute to worthy school projects in need of financial assistance. We'll be able to track our progress right on the DonorsChoose site. And -- because we like a little friendly competition -- we'll be updating you periodically as to which blogger's readers are getting his or her challenge closest to its goal.

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Posted on June 15, 2006 9:15 AM • 0 Comments •

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