Dr. Christie Wilcox is a scientist, science writer, and social media specialist. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2014 in Cell and Molecular Biology with a specialization in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She currently pens the Science Sushi blog for Discover Magazine. Through her writing, Dr. Wilcox shares her insatiable enthusiasm for biology, and she is renowned in the science blogosphere for her delicate balance of contemporary science and scientific perspective seasoned with just the right amount of wit.

Dr. Wilcox began blogging at Observations of a Nerd in 2008 (later picked up by ScienceBlogs), creating Science Sushi in 2011 when she joined the Scientific American blogging network. In 2013, she moved Science Sushi to its current home as a part of the Discover Magazine website. For Discover, she blogs on a wide variety of topics, though tends to be driven by her scientific interests, writing often about evolution, genetics and marine ecology. Her award-winning posts have been featured in the Open Laboratory five years running and landed on the pages of major media outlets including Scientific American, Slate and The New York Times.

In addition, Dr. Wilcox is a passionate activist for the use of social media for scientific outreach. She has several years of experience in writing feature articles, essays, editorial pieces, and blog posts on the topic of science education and communication using new media platforms. Her passionate appeal to draw scientists online has garnered her multiple speaking engagements at national conferences, and she has led workshops for other scientists on how to engage through new media for major scientific organizations including the National Institutes of Health and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and created a resource wiki on online outreach. Most recently, she led an elite team of editors in pulling together over 25 of the greatest online science communicators to create Science Blogging: The Essential Guide, available March 2016.

Dr. Wilcox lives in Hawaii where she is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii. She continues her research on venomous animals, and her first book — Venomous, popular science book on venoms — is due out in 2016. In her free time, she volunteers with schools and outreach organizations to share her enthusiasm for science with the next generation. She also, on occasion, finds the time to enjoy life in paradise, and can sometimes be found playing with terrestrial biologists in the forests or on stage performing poor renditions of popular songs at local karaoke bars (hear more of her music here).

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Science Sushi: 2015 in Review
By Christie Wilcox | December 31, 2015 12:00 pm

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/#.Vq-HH0LeoUQ

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The Colossal Hoax Of Organic Agriculture
By Mason I. Bilderberg (MIB) on | 1 Comment
By Henry I. Miller and Drew L. Kershen via Forbes
Consumers of organic foods are getting both more and less than they bargained for. On both counts, it’s not good.
Many people who pay the huge premium—often more than a hundred percent–for organic foods do so because they’re afraid of pesticides.  If that’s their rationale, they misunderstand the nuances of organic agriculture. Although it’s true that synthetic chemical pesticides are generally prohibited, there is a lengthy list of exceptions listed in the Organic Foods Production Act, while most “natural” ones are permitted. However, “organic” pesticides can be toxic.  As evolutionary biologist Christie Wilcox explained in a 2012 Scientific American article (“Are lower pesticide residues a good reason to buy organic? Probably not.”): “Organic pesticides pose the same health risks as non-organic ones.”


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Over on the Scientific American blog, Christie Wilcox set out to expose the "myths" of organic farming. Frankly, the piece was so poorly reasoned that I read it with a yawn. But people take Scientific American seriously (as they should—it's a great publication) and the piece was received with credulity on Matt Yglesias' influential blog and at my former employer, Grist. (Grist has since published a critique of the Wilcox piece by Tom Laskawy).
Since some smart people seem to be buying what Wilcox is peddling here, let's look at her central claims.
1) Organic farms are seething hotbeds of toxic pesticide use. Wilcox notes, correctly, that organic farms are allowed to use certain non-synthetic pesticides. I agree the practice is problematic. Organic farming is built on the principle of on-farm ecological balance—that crop biodiversity should provide habitat for a variety of "beneficial insects," which should in turn keep crop-eating ones under control. Use of pesticides, even non-synthetic ones, represents a breakdown of that principle, and should be avoided by organic farmers.

But how much of a problem is pesticide use on organic farms? To hear Wilcox tell it, buyers of organic food are unwittingly getting all manner of pesticide traces on their produce. To back that up, she drops this dud of a bombshell:
Furthermore, just over 1% of organic foodstuffs produced in 2007 and tested by the European Food Safety Authority were found to contain pesticide levels above the legal maximum levels—and these are of pesticides that are not organic.
Just over 1 percent, eh? That means that just under 99 percent were found to be ok. Scary!

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http://grist.org/organic-food/2011-07-21-in-defense-of-organic/

As Grist readers know, “mythbusting” Scientific American blogger Christie Wilcox took on organic agriculture recently in “Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture.” Now, I do agree that there should be no sacred cows — we should examine everything with a critical, if not jaundiced, eye. And indeed Wilcox brings up issues surrounding organic ag about which many people may not be aware. But sadly, her analysis goes quickly and seriously off the rails.
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It’s the only explanation. Historically, Scientific American has been unafraid to confront right-wing attacks on science of the climate change denier and creationist sort. So when a blog appears under the SciAm masthead claiming to “bust" various myths of organics, citing industry-funded studies and commentary from fringe right-wingers like Alex Avery of the Hudson Institute, one wonders what happened.
Christie Wilcox’s “Myth-busting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture,” published last week, has already elicited rebuttals from food and ag writers at Mother Jones, Grist and more. As Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott notes, the piece is so predictable in its rehearsal of industry talking points as to warrant a big yawn. But it’s in SciAm and will no doubt serve as link bait in the ongoing debate over the future of global food and agriculture; so we find that a few basic corrections are in order.

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https://lettersquash.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/a-critique-of-the-truth-about-organic-farming-by-christie-wilcox/

She doesn’t explain precisely what she means by “factory farming” as applied to organic farming, so I’m beginning to suspect moving of goalposts: she praised organic farming for “trying to move away” from monocultures, but she is now accusing some of them of “factory farming”, which seems to imply monocultures.
She says, “shockingly, the actual volume usage of pesticides on organic farms is not recorded by the government. Why the government isn’t keeping watch on organic pesticide and fungicide use is a damn good question, especially considering that many organic pesticides that are also used by conventional farmers are used more intensively than synthetic ones due to their lower levels of effectiveness”. If this is true, I am also shocked. I suspect it isn’t. A brief google hasn’t resulted in clarification. However, let’s not get distracted: this is a red herring. If it is true, it is a damning indictment of the government’s regulatory practice, not organic farming.

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Professional experience
Graduate Assistant
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
October 2011 - Present
Writer/Blogger
Scientific American
July 2011 - Present
Freelance Writer
Scientific American, and others
September 2008 - Present
Education history
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology
August 2009 - February 2012 (2 years 6 months)
Eckerd College
BS with Honors in Marine Science

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2010   http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/04/01/scienceonline2010-interview-28/

Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Where are you coming from (both geographically and philosophically)? What is your (scientific) background?
Where I’m coming from geographically… That’s a long story. I always love getting asked where I’m from, because it’s such a fun answer to give. Since I always get asked this after the spiel I’m about to give, no, my family wasn’t in the military – they just liked to move a lot. I was born in Boston, but my parents moved to Hawaii when I was too young to remember. Then they divorced a handful of years later, and my mom took me and my brother with her when she moved to Vermont. I spent much of my childhood bouncing back and forth, my winters in New England, and my summers in Hawaii, until my dad moved to California and bounced around there. And then moved to England. And then back to California. I went to a boarding school in Massachusetts for high school, then Florida for my undergrad, and now I’ve managed to wiggle my way back to Hawaii for my PhD. I spent about 5 years in each place so far, with a combined total of 14 different places to live (counting boarding school as only one, although the room and building changed every year, and not counting the 26 or so places my dad has moved to that I would visit). I even sound all over the place – I say “karaoke” with a Japanese accent, “Hawai’i” like a local, and “y’alls” with a Southern twang. To me, “home” is wherever I am at, and wherever the people I love are.
As for philosophically, l am first and foremost a biologist. I like to say that I’ve been a biologist my whole life, although it wasn’t official until I received my undergraduate degree in Marine Science from Eckerd College in 2007. When I was a kid, I loved whatever animals I could find. I can distinctly remember early-morning gecko hunts with my dad, where I would go out in the yard and turn over every object I was capable of to find geckos. I have a report from my school when I was five where the evaluator specifically mentions my affinity for opening geckos’ mouths to look at their tongues. Seriously. I can show it to you. I had hedgehogs for pets as a kid, because, you know, a dog and a cat weren’t odd enough to keep me entertained. Of course, I kinda forgot this along the way, and in high school I didn’t know what the heck I was supposed to do, so I did a little of everything. I directed a play, did an independent study in Hawaiian history, and took AP Physics. I really blame my physics teacher, Brian Giannino-Racine, for most of what I’ve become. He did the most blasphemous thing: he made science – and not just any science, but physics – seem like something fun and interesting to study. I liked his classes so much, I figured I could become a physicist, and, technically, that is what I started with when I got to Eckerd – a double major in Physics and Marine Science. It only took one advanced physics class to change my mind, but the passion for science in general that he brought out in me remained.
Although “biologist” sounds good, the truth is that biology is a huge field filled with a million different lines of work. As my time as an undergrad came to a close, I still hadn’t really found my niche. I felt like I had to pick something – behavioral biologist, molecular biologist, etc, and I had no idea what I wanted to pick. Instead of applying to grad schools right away, and committing myself for five or more years to a project I was unsure of, I took a couple years to think about my options while working as a biochemist in a research lab in Florida. Finally, I came to the conclusion that a five year old me would have found obvious, which is that I should do whatever I like to do most, and so I ended up where I am now, in Hawaii pursuing my PhD (which though on paper is in “Cell and Molecular Biology,” is really in “Playing with Ocean Creatures”). As a career, I am forced to do the kinds of things that most people spend lots of money to be able to do. I have to live in paradise, and must dive all the time as a part of my job. I am forced to travel all over the Pacific to help others in sample collection, to places like the Marquesas, Kiribati and American Samoa. I even might have to go to conferences in places like Thailand and South Africa to present my work to others. Isn’t being a biologist absolutely dreadful?

After biologist in my self-descriptive terms comes writer. I love to write. I’ve always liked writing – I was that weird kid that everyone hated because I actually enjoyed essays in school. I wrote all the time, whether for school or just for myself. I used to think I would publish a book about my life someday. Actually, I still think that, but now for different reasons. Anyhow, I blog because I love to write, and by the time I graduated from Eckerd I had stopped doing a lot of that. I only wrote what I had to, and I had forgotten my love for it. When my friend Allie told me she had to write a blog for a class she was taking, I thought, damn, that’s a good idea. And thus Observations of a Nerd was born. I wanted a place where I could write about what I loved, and maybe some other people would like to hear about it, too. Logically, most of what I write about it biological in nature, but I get sidetracked every once in awhile. My writing career is in its infancy compared to my “real” one, but I love them both. Now, if only I could find the time to do them both as well as live a normal life…
Tell us a little more about your career trajectory so far: interesting projects past and present?
I think everything I do is interesting, but others might disagree. Along the way I have done a number of internships and volunteering that have given me a unique set of experiences. In retrospect, I remember them by the animals they brought me in contact with. For example, I learned that spotted eagle rays feel like puppies when they gently nibble shrimp off your hands, thanks to volunteer work I did at the Florida Aquarium. Cownose rays, on the other hand, feel like sand-papery vacuum cleaners. I worked an entire summer in Mote Marine Laboratory’s sea turtle program, where I walked up and down the beaches of Sarasota, flagging, protecting, and even moving turtle nests. During that time, I got to hold and care for at least fifty baby sea turtles, who are, officially, the cutest things that nature has ever produced (sorry, baby fennec foxes). Let’s see, what else have I done… Oo! I once helped electrically ejaculate an anesthetized river otter. That’s always the best story. People make the funniest faces when I talk about that.
What is taking up the most of your time and passion these days? What are your goals?
Currently, I’m working on my PhD. I want to study lionfish. They’re a nasty invasive species in the Caribbean, yet here in Hawaii, one of the many places in the Indo-Pacific where they are native to, they’re almost impossible to find. No one really knows anything about the entire group of these animals. My goals are to understand a bit about the evolution of the group as a whole and, more specifically, their populations here to determine if their distribution patterns can give us any insights in the Atlantic. Furthermore, I want to study their venom, learn what it contains and how it works, and maybe give people some incentive to fish them in their invasive habitats. Mostly, though, I think I just want to spend a lot of time underwater looking for the buggers.
Ultimately, my goals are to get that PhD, and with it go on to some post-docs, and eventually, settle in somewhere as a researcher or a researcher/professor. The details are still fuzzy, but somewhere along the lines I’ll end up with a family and publishing a book or two. Hey – I’m only 24! I’ve got a lot of time left to figure out the particulars
How does (if it does) blogging figure in your work? How about social networks, e.g., Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook? Do you find all this online activity to be a net positive (or even a necessity) in what you do?
Blogging is something I do for fun. I find little tid bits of science interesting, and being the ever-talkative extrovert that I am, I want to tell other people about them. If you have met me in person, my blog makes perfect sense. Reading a blog post if mine is what it is like to spend 15 minutes having a conversation with me about something I’m passionate about (including it being mostly me talking. I talk a lot. And fast.), although the blog post is probably a little more grammatically correct. I love to share what I care about with others. That’s why I worked on the education and public outreach side of many of my science endeavors. Blogging is my way of doing that when I don’t have the time to volunteer for five hours a day in an aquarium or a zoo. I think everyone would find science cool if only more people would explain it better, which is something, I think, that I can do.
As far as other outlets go, I have to confess: I’ve become somewhat of an addict to social networking. They’re great ways to pass information around. I do it all now – Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, etc. I get a lot of news and ideas for my blogging from the world of social networking I have created around myself. As for whether that’s a good thing… you’ll have to get a trained psychologist to answer that one.
When and how did you first discover science blogs? What are some of your favourites? Have you discovered any cool science blogs by the participants at the Conference?
I first discovered science blogs back in 2008 when I started blogging. Last time I counted, I follow 80+ science blogs on my Google Reader… so I like a lot of them! Some of my personal favorite writers include Brian Switek, Scicurious, those crazy Deep Sea folks Kevin, Craig and Miriam, the other ocean trio Andrew, Amy and David, and of course, Allie, since she’s the one to blame for getting me into this whole thing. But I have to give special note to Ed Yong and his blog Not Exactly Rocket Science. His was one of the first blogs I began reading, and I see NERS as a kind of model to strive for (with my own flare, of course). I was honored to even be considered for two of the Research Blogging Awards that he ended up winning – the idea that he and I might have anything in common is, to me, a huge, probably underserved, compliment.
Oh. And there’s also that silly Bora guy, of course. Though, I think anyone reading this already knows who he is!
I found a number of new blogs to read through the conference – like the kids from the Extreme Biology Blog. They simply blew my mind this year. I wish I’d have been that smart and driven at that age… I can’t even imagine where I’d be now!
What was the best aspect of ScienceOnline2010 for you? Any suggestions for next year? Is there anything that happened at this Conference – a session, something someone said or did or wrote – that will change the way you think about science communication, or something that you will take with you to your job, blog-reading and blog-writing?
The best part, for me, was meeting all the people I only knew by name or pseudonym. There’s something about putting a face or a voice to the words you read that makes them seem even better. Meeting all of the people I admire and read was a treat, and getting to know new people I’d never even heard of was icing on the cake.
I think what I took with me from the conference wasn’t as much a specific quote or idea as it was… dedication. I blog for fun, as anyone who blogs should, but I also blog to say something that I think is important, and the conference really instilled in me a sense of urgency to write these things that I think matter in a way that matters. It’s as if the conference pushed me from being just a blogger to being a writer and a journalist, too. I feel like it’s more than just for me now. It’s for everyone who reads Observations of a Nerd, or follows me on twitter. It’s for a larger community of science writers and educators. And because of that, I am continually trying to improve what I do, whether that means live tweeting a tsunami, explaining something complicated in a better way, or finding a creature that is atypically cute to draw attention to an animal that others might not think to care about. Science Online 2010 revitalized my passion for all of it! I can only hope I can make it out again next year, and every year after that.
As far as suggestions go, make it longer! I want more time with more people! I didn’t even meet half the people that went, and I really would have liked to get to know everyone better and learn more about their projects, ideas and what they do.
It was so nice to finally meet you in person and thank you for the interview. I hope to see you again next January.
Aloha,
Christie

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My adviser, Brian Bowen, has been really supportive. I didn’t mention [my writing] when I started grad school in 2009. But then people would come into the lab and say they liked an article I wrote. The big step in his recognizing this as a “serious thing” was when I was invited to Scientific American [and now Discover magazine blogs]. The SciAm brand made this seem real. Now, when people visit the lab, he always points to me and says, “This is our celebrity writer.” But he’s not shy about telling me when I’m overcommitting or losing focus in my research. I earn a graduate stipend by working 20 hours a week as a teaching assistant or research assistant so I have other activities that also compete for my research time. But if I have a PCR running and some free time, I’ll read some articles and look for a story. I also write until all sorts of ungodly hours and on weekends.
As a scientist/writer, do you worry about conflicts of interest? How do you maintain a journalist’s skepticism and sense of objectivity when you may be writing about colleagues?
It depends on the story. When I’m writing in other places, like writing about the science of makeup for the YouBeauty site launched by Dr. Oz, I feel like I’m being hired as a writer and not a scientist. When I’m writing about science that’s this close to me, I don’t necessarily view myself as a journalist. To the contrary, I feel that people reading an article like this are looking to hear Christie Wilcox, the marine biologist, and my expertise and commentary on an important marine topic. That’s what makes my perspective important. To me, it seems the same as seeking out other science writers who develop specific areas of expertise. If you want to know about oxytocin, you go to Ed Yong. Parasites? Carl Zimmer.
Of course, I still view the science as objectively as possible, as I would in writing a scientific manuscript or reviewing one from a scientist I interview. Scientists already approach life with a heightened level of skepticism. So while I run the risk as being perceived in writing about a problem that might get my boss more research funding, the lionfish invasion is, objectively, an important problem. The scientific truth is that the part of this that is my Ph.D. work—characterizing lionfish toxins—is a critical research topic and one that the FDA is considering for consumer safety.
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http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/09/10/is-organic-food-worth-the-expense/the-ecological-case-against-organic-farming

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/2012/09/24/pesticides-food-fears/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2013/06/19/the-very-thick-line-between-raising-concerns-and-denialism/#.UcYmIvlOPTp

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Background
Employment History
Lead Science Correspondent
Nutrition Wonderland
Science Feature Writer
Nutrition Wonderland
Science Blogger
Discover Magazine
Graduate Assistant
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Science Writer
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Scientific American
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Bachelor of Science with honors
Eckerd College
PhD , Cell and Molecular Biology
University of Hawaii
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Christie Wilcox has always been a biologist at heart, though only finished Bachelor of Science degree with honors from Eckerd College in 2007 to become an official biologist on paper. is currently working on phD at the University of Hawaii. is also an avid science blogger with both a loosely marine-focused blog at the Nature Network (O.L.S. Buzz) and own pop-science blog: Observations of a Nerd, which was recently selected to be a part of the prestigious ScienceBlogs network. One of pieces from Observations of a Nerd was chosen to be published in The Open Laboratory 2008, an anthology of the best science blogging of the year. On top of writing and research, Christie is also an avid animal lover and lives in Hawaii with boyfriend and two pseudo-children, a cat aptly named Loki and a dog fondly called Noelani. free time is spent enjoying the natural beauty of surroundings, watching Big Bang Theory, Lost and House, and being, in general, as nerdy as can be.
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The lionfish, a common aquarium fish native to the Indo-Pacific region, has become an invasive species in the Caribbean and southern U.S. Atlantic coast, where its voracious appetite for young grouper and snapper is endangering populations of these economically-important food fish. One proposed solution is to encourage people to harvest and eat lionfish.
Christie Wilcox is a science writer and Ph.D. candidate studying lionfish toxins at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. study population doesn't live in the Hawaiian Islands, so recently traveled to coastal North Carolina to collect samples. From this experience, Wilcox wrote a blog post and a 3,000-word feature about first lionfish meal. [The Sweet Taste of Conservation appeared on Wilcox's Discover blog, Science Sushi, on June 18, 2013.
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Christie Wilcox of the University of Hawaii thinks there may be a different reason that so many lionfish are coming up positive on ciguatoxin tests: venom proteins might act as ciguatoxin mimics.
"We already know lionfish produce bioactive compounds-just ask anyone who has ever been stung," said.
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It struck Wilcox that, at the cellular level, lionfish venom might be difficult to distinguish from ciguatoxins because they have similar activities. took muscle, skin, spine and liver tissue from invasive lionfish and used antibodies against stonefish venom to detect the presence of venom proteins-and found them. "Lionfish express venom-like proteins throughout their bodies," said. "We don't know exactly what these proteins are or what they're doing, but we know they're there."
Because tissues for ciguatoxin testing undergo preparation in the laboratory to concentrate the toxins, Wilcox further tested whether these proteins made it through common lipid extraction methods used in ciguatoxin testing. Though the amount was reduced, they could still be detected. "These proteins could be making their way into ciguatoxin test dishes," said Wilcox, "and if they are, there's a chance they're messing up our tests."
The presence of these proteins in your fillets is nothing to worry about, though, says Wilcox.
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Wilcox is quick to note that the work does not prove that lionfish are perfectly safe. "No one is debating that lionfish could be ciguatoxic," says Wilcox.
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