We at Science Careers like to tell stories. Now we want some of you to tell your stories on Science Careers.

We're looking for regular bloggers from all career stages--undergraduate, graduate, postdoc, assistant professor, young professional, and so on--who study or work in academia or industry, or who are making a move to another sector in which they intend to apply their scientific skills. Career bloggers will represent a wide range of viewpoints: women and men, physicists and gastroenterologists, from industry and from academe, black, white, Hispanic, foreign and native-born, blogging about postdoc rights or motherhood, lab experiences or time management--or whatever. Contributors will write about all things vaguely science-career related; the only other criterion is that it be original and fun to read.

Science is a wide world, and experiences of doing science are diverse. We want to capture a slice of the experience of doing science, and we need your help to do it. It doesn't matter if you're already blogging, have been thinking about starting a blog, or first thought of it 12 seconds ago when you saw the headline.

Interested in being in the first class of science career--and Science Careers--bloggers? Please send us a short writing sample--500 words or less. Suggested topics: an interesting conference experience; something appalling that happened in the lab; balancing work in science with ... fatherhood; a successful--or unsuccessful--networking experience; your favorite laboratory animal. Could be anything. Send it to me at jaustin@aaas.org [1]. Contributions from women, and from minorities underrepresented in the sciences, are strongly encouraged.