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Monthly Archives: December 2011
FINALLY! (Hockey Pool Update, weeks 12 and 13)
FINALLY… I’m winning! Unfortunately, so is Cath. We’ve been in lockstep for both weeks 12 and 13, despite not having a great deal of overlap in our picks.
Posted in Fun, Hobbies, hockey, hockey pool, It'll all end in tears you know, Politics, sssssmokin'!!!, VWXPool, VWXYnot
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Work and Energy [17]
It has been a quiet week in lab woebegone*. Though we have been working to pack up everything for a move across campus in mid-January, Christmas has intervened to scatter us to our homes, where traditionally we have the time … Continue reading
Posted in GF Watts, Physical Energy, science, Scientific Life, The War on Stress
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Bucket List and 2012 Resolutions [22]
Bucket List The plan is to add at least one new item every time I tick one off! Write at least one book (and get it published) Run for political office (and preferably win)
Posted in apes, Canada, career, climate change, environment, freelancing, furry friends, kayaking, nature, personal, Politics, publishing, snow, sport, travel, UK
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Impressions from a Parallel Universe [13]
Research and life have many things in common. In particular, it has always intrigued me that when following a line of research in the lab, we are constantly presented with branching points that make it imperative to make decisions about … Continue reading
Decisions [7]
Quite a lot has happened in the Maison des Girrafes during 2011. Crox Minima started at high school, making her Dad proud, and Crox Minor was Bat-Mitzvah, bringing tears of joy to the eye of this atheist (Jewish Section); The … Continue reading
Posted in authors, Domesticrox, editors, manuscripts, nature, on the ball city!, publication, Research, saffron, science, Science Is Vital, seriously pissed off siamese, your favourite weekly professional science magazine beginning with N
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The Gift of Pink [19]
So, the presents are unwrapped, the turkey (or nut roast) consumed and the levels of alcohol in the blood perhaps beginning to recede. It’s time to regroup, to start drawing up that list of good resolutions for 2012 and to … Continue reading
Posted in Delilah, Equality, Hamley's, Laura Nelson, Lego friends, toys, Women in science
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The Twelve Days of (a Lab) Christmas [2]
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me A postdoc with her own grant. On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me Two PhDs, and a postdoc with her own grant.
In which we are the last man standing [4]
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.
Posted in Silliness, The profession of science
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Legs [8]
This will probably be my last post for 2011, and if it is, or even if it isn’t, I offer you both the compliments of the season. I shall leave you with this picture taken earlier today at the pet … Continue reading
Posted in genuflective, legs, norwich, pets, postcranial material of large even-toed ungulates, postmen, reflugent, Silliness, versatile
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Support Student Volunteering Week 2012! [2]
Volunteering is a big part of the student experience. When I was an undergraduate at Leeds University in the early 1980s I was part of a project that read texts and coursework onto tape for blind students. After a short … Continue reading
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