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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Incoming [1]
I gave a talk a couple of weeks ago at a Biochemical Society meeting on the subject of the Research Excellence Framework, the process that will assess UK academic research quality for the purpose of determining how a large tranche … Continue reading
Posted in impact, REF, science, Scientific Life
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Things to do in ‘couver when you’re weird
These ads that appeared in my Facebook feed the other day confuse and frighten me: I hadn’t realised that breeding grotesquely oversized kittehs was A Thing in Vancouver… or maybe that’s just what happens when you buy breakthrough peptide-based treatments … Continue reading
Posted in bad people, freakishness, furry friends, Medicine, Pseudoscience, screenshots, shopping, Silliness, Vancouver
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Another Excerpt
Since posting an excerpt of my third fifth forthcoming tome The Beowulf Effect: Fossils, Evolution and the Human Condition I have been deluged by a Dr I. B. of Tennessee, notwithstanding inasmuch as which Dr J. G. of Sussex, and no … Continue reading
Posted in Beowulf Effect, creationism, ebu gogo, extinction, hominin, Homo floresiensis, i will not buy this record it is scratched, Research, Writing & Reading
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All about shes (and hes) [9]
I recently watched the wonderful classic All About Eve – Best Picture at the Oscars in 1951. Its a great film if you like the classics, the language is spectacular ( I am always amazed at the language in good … Continue reading
Posted in Bette Davis, Stereotypes, stereotypes in science
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Scrutiny on the count, eh?
(Long post alert! Sorry!) Regular readers will know all about my passion for politics, a passion that was dampened only slightly by seven years of voteless pre-citizenship residence in Canada and that has ramped up again recently thanks to a … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, current affairs, environment, personal, Politics, technology, Vancouver
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Where the hell is regulation when it’s actually needed?!
Anyone with any relationship to science will tell you horror stories about bureaucracy and regulatory issues hindering science. One classic example of how ridiculously out-of-touch bureaucrats have become was described here by Jenny Rohn fairly recently, with rules mandating that … Continue reading
Posted in bureaucracy, doctors, Eltroxin, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Medicine, regulation, replacement, Research, science, thyroid hormone
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On Lechery and Other Failings
Recently there has been some discussion about ‘what do professors do?’ in the press, with comments from fellow OT blogger Stephen Curry (and on my own blog here), with a major emphasis on leadership, mentoring, teaching and the desirability of … Continue reading
Posted in recommendations, references, Science Culture, Unconscious bias, Women in science
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LabLit: like a boss
This was just a draft; I've since changed it to "novel, high-profile findings"
Posted in English language, screenshots, Silliness, technology
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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #5150
This photo comes from the collection of esoterica maintained by my friend Professor Trellis of North Wales, and is used by permission. No, we don’t know either. We suspect it might be a device used to irradiate frogs so that … Continue reading
Posted in frogs, princes, Professor Trellis of North Wales, Silliness, zeuglodon
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In which signaling takes the cake [9]
Champagne in plastic cups after a successful PhD viva is still a classic, but you don’t often see labmates getting together to recreate one of your prettiest thesis figures in cake format. Congratulations, James!
Posted in Silliness, The profession of science
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