Monthly Archives: August 2012

Sitting in my Corner

Posted on 17 August 2012 by Athene Donald

Today I find myself in the illustrious company of the well-known bloggers over at the Guardian Science Blogs. As Richard Grant and  Stephen Curry already spelled out a week ago, we happy band of OT bloggers have a new outpost … Continue reading →

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STEM

Posted on 17 August 2012 by Henry Gee

Over the years I’ve enthused in public about science, to various audiences. I have given seminars to graduate students and faculty about being an editor at Your Favourite Etc., and if you don’t believe me here’s the evidence. Notwithstanding inasmuch … Continue reading →

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lme4: destined to become stable through rounding?

Posted on 17 August 2012 by Bob O'H

(this would have appeared on my blog on Nature Network, but the pulled the plug the day before. Sometimes correlation does not mean causation) Fans of R and mixed models are aware of the lme4 package. This started out as … Continue reading →

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Deja vu

Posted on 17 August 2012 by Steve Caplan

Science is all about repetition, but this kind of repetition, ad nauseum, I can do without. My name is Steve Caplan, I work on protein trafficking and ENDOCYTIC recycling. I have NOTHING to do with environmental recycling of waste, at … Continue reading →

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In which a picture’s worth a thousand words

Posted on 15 August 2012 by Jennifer Rohn

A significant part of the scientific process is documenting what you observe. This activity is not merely a formality for the record. In some cases, it’s not until we study and analyze our results that the experimental situation can start … Continue reading →

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MIRABILIS!

Posted on 15 August 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I just received a package from home: Yeah. Some of these are going up next to my desk at work.

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Sick of Impact Factors

Posted on 13 August 2012 by Stephen

I am sick of impact factors and so is science. The impact factor might have started out as a good idea, but its time has come and gone. Conceived by Eugene Garfield in the 1970s as a useful tool for … Continue reading →

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I Am Not A Bimbo

Posted on 13 August 2012 by Athene Donald

 Not so long ago I read a distressed ‘rant’  about being catcalled in London, from a woman who seemed persistently to be subjected to it – and worse. Alice voiced her anger and her misery in detail and provoked a … Continue reading →

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Vapid

Posted on 12 August 2012 by Henry Gee

Earlier this evening Mrs Crox warmed up the televisual receiver for the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics. It wasn’t long before the vacuity of the commentary drove me to flight. My, the editorial standards of the BBC have … Continue reading →

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Welcome to The Menagerie

Posted on 12 August 2012 by Bob O'H

In my first OT post I mentioned The Menagerie I live in. So, while GrrlScientist is attending to parts of it I thought I’d introduce some of the residents, including some of the shyer ones The diversity isn’t as taxonomically … Continue reading →

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