Monthly Archives: March 2013

Strange history, and thoughts of trying times

Posted on 10 March 2013 by Richard Wintle

In between grant writing, which has consumed much of the first two months of this year, and the inevitable mountain of other things that have been set aside because of it, I’ve managed to escape and explore a little more … Continue reading →

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Coach’s corner

Posted on 9 March 2013 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I started writing this as part of a RBO Work Stuff post, but it got way too long so I’m making it into a stand-alone item. I’ll post the rest of the stuff tomorrow… probably… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m taking a great … Continue reading →

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The two ideas to fix the gender balance that do not make me cringe

Posted on 7 March 2013 by Eva Amsen

When I was in the penultimate year of high school, at that point where you need to think about universities, all six of the girls in my physics class got a flyer advertising “girl days” at technical universities, during which … Continue reading →

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High altitude boots

Posted on 6 March 2013 by Frank Norman

I received an email today with the subject line “High altitude boots”. For a moment I thought it was going to be an advert for extreme high-heeled shoes, but it turned out to be a request for a copy of … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #5150

Posted on 5 March 2013 by Henry Gee

I am pleased to regurgitate this signage offered to this column by our North of England Correspondent Mr J. S. of Lancashire.

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Writing

Posted on 4 March 2013 by Henry Gee

I have just read a post by my friend Mr B. C. of Swindon, who as you’ll both be aware is a popular science writer of some distinction (you can sample his books on his Amazon Author Page). A random … Continue reading →

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Science education: the generalist vs the specialist

Posted on 3 March 2013 by Steve Caplan

Well, here I am. I promised. No funny pictures and weird self-promotion campaigns. Just a blog about a topic that might interest some of us in the sciences.

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Building the Evidence

Posted on 3 March 2013 by Athene Donald

Evidence-based policy has become something of a catch phrase recently. My own MP, the scientist and my former departmental colleague Julian Huppert, used the phrase in his maiden speech, pledging  to support it, albeit other MPs may be less persuaded … Continue reading →

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Sympathy or schadenfreude? – the ENCODE consortium gets the hatchet job.

Posted on 2 March 2013 by Philip Strange

A paper was published earlier this week making an extraordinary attack on the integrity of the work of the ENCODE consortium, an international group studying the human genome.  Scientists don’t normally go in for this type of public blood letting, … Continue reading →

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