Monthly Archives: July 2007

British academia runs on tea. It’s true. I’d forgotten what it’s like to work in a scientific university environment in this green and pleasant land. The entire building seems to decamp to the tea room as a ritual occasion, once … Continue reading →

Some of you may already have heard through the London grapevine about the plans Wynn Abbott (as director of SciCult) and I (as editor of LabLit) have cooked up to hold a competition entitled Stripping Off the White Coat. We … Continue reading →

Tomorrow marks the end of my first month in the lab. You might expect me to report that the time has flown. But in truth, I have lived through each minute in painstaking real-time, and not all of it has … Continue reading →