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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Comic genius
I’m currently working on a progress report for a collaboration that spans multiple projects and sub-projects. As usual I copied the final version of my last report to a new folder, then renamed it “DRAFT April 2012 report.doc” and started … Continue reading
With Fresh Ears, Eyes and Hands
In the run-up to Easter I happened to catch part of a broadcast of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. This is a work I was steeped in as a teenager, attending the annual Bach Choir’s performance at the Royal Festival Hall … Continue reading
Posted in advice, freedom, Interdisciplinary Science, Research, supervision
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What’s your favourite colour?
What’s your favourite colour? Anyone who has socialised with small children will have been confronted with this serious-faced interrogation at some point. It’s the sort of question that erupts as soon as young kids learn to verbalise the jumble of … Continue reading
Posted in Colour, Protein Crystallography, science, X-ray crystallography, X-rays
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In which necessity’s a MoFo
Reality check and status update: I’m still a lab head, and I’m still poor. But after knocking around in this new position for nearly three months, I have to admit that it’s rather good fun being poor. When you lack … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific method, Silliness
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A very retro seminar
(now that Big Complicated Grant has progressed to the next stage and I can draw breath again, let’s see if I can remember how to write about anything other than hockey!) I believe I’ve mentioned in the past that I … Continue reading
Posted in cancer research, career, evolution, genomics, original research, science, technology
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Breaking into the Lab
What follows is a book review which first appeared in Times Higher Education on April 12th 2012 Breaking Into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science By Sue V. Rosser New York University Press 264pp, £23.99 ISBN 9780814776452 Published … Continue reading
Posted in book review, leaky pipeline, US universities, Women in science
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Relativity Theory
How many times have we been told in the course of our lives “It’s all relative?” I hear that over and over. And I suppose that there’s a lot of truth in that statement. If we push aside considerations of … Continue reading
Posted in grant, grant review, international, proposal, relative, relativity, Research, science
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In which we’re too close for comfort
It was always going to be a difficult relationship. We knew from the very start that they weren’t very well-suited. After all, they came from such different backgrounds. They were used to such radically different environments.
Posted in Scientific method, The profession of science
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Somewhere there’s a village…
Just in time for the playoffs, a song from CBC’s The Irrelevant Show for all the Canadian hockey fans out there – or indeed anyone whose team, in any sport, has lost any final game in any competition. Awesome.
