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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Solo Hackday
Once upon a time I might have described myself as a techie. My career was founded on my willingness to install hgopher and Trumpet Winsock and fiddle with autoexec.bat and config.sys. This gave people access to the wonders of the … Continue reading
Posted in Research tools, Scientific literature
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Remembering veterans in my family
Today is the day we remember those who died in wars. Wars for our freedoms, pointless wars, wars against tyranny, wars of invasion. There is no way around the fact that wars are awful, but regardless if you feel a … Continue reading
Posted in remembrance day
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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
You’ll both be aware of my interest in Old English and the Anglo-Saxon period of English history. Here, then, is a description of how evidence was judged in an Anglo-Saxon coutroom circa 990 AD. The defendant was not required to … Continue reading
Posted in BBC, journalism, Monbiot, Newsnight, paedophiles, Politicrox
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More local history – the lime kiln
Pioneer lime kiln, Mountsberg, Ontario – 120 format film and the 1937 camera I’ve occasionally written about getting out and about and exploring local history, here in the southeastern part of the Province of Ontario. This is something I should … Continue reading
Is science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) the big winner of the US elections?!
Let me start off by offering my utmost congratulations to the statistician-bloggers who predicted the outcomes of the US elections with startling accuracy. The methodical and scientific approaches of using poll aggregates with statistical variables introduced in a wholly scientific … Continue reading
Posted in akin, drew linzer, education, fivethirtyeight, humor, losers, mourdock, myth busters, nate silver, Obama, presidential elections, princeton election consortium, Research, romney, sam wang, science, science stem, senate races, votamatic
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To Begin at the Beginning
It seems obvious: any piece of writing should have a beginning, a middle and an end. But how often have I heard the lack of structure moaned about by those folk who have to read some prose, in particular supervisors … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Girton College, PhD, prose, Research, Thesis
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An unexpected delight in the form of careers advice
Fellow Occam’s Typewriter blogger Jenny Rohn‘s book on sale at ASHG 2012. This week I am attending the 62nd meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics here in San Francisco. Being a PhD student, I registered for several of … Continue reading
Posted in ASHG2012, careers, Life, networking, PhD, science careers
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In which I powder my nose
It’s rather disconcerting to enter a stall in a public lavatory, sit down – and see your own name staring back at you on the inner door advertising. Does this mean I’ve really hit the big-time?
Customer relations
Journal publishers are more interested in librarians than they ever used to be. The move to e-journals and big deals has changed the balance between individual and institutional subscriptions, making libraries more important to publishers than, say, fifteen years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Journal publishing, Libraries and librarians
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Classical Public Engagement?
One of the things I have noticed in the past couple of years is that all kinds of interesting and unexpected invitations come my way. I think this is something arising from the award of the L’Oreal/UNESCO Laureate in 2009 … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Essential Classics, Public Engagement, Sarah Walker, UNESCO
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