Monthly Archives: December 2011

In which we are the last man standing

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Jennifer Rohn

You know it’s the last day before Christmas break when: 1. All of the communal microscopes are free, so you can run lots of parallel experiments. 2. Whenever you enter a room or corridor, the automatic lights flicker on. 3. … Continue reading →

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In which we down a few

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Jennifer Rohn

It seems like only yesterday that Nature Network, in what struck me as a bizarre fit of misplaced paranoia and pettiness, locked some of its most popular bloggers out of their own sites, preventing them from posting their own farewell … Continue reading →

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In which I long to curl up with a good book

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Jennifer Rohn

‘Tis the season when colleagues start discreetly disappearing from the lab, only to return a few hours later laden with shopping bags from Oxford Street. There is a run on discarded boxes and packing peanuts in the store room, and … Continue reading →

Posted in LabLit, Writing | 23 Comments