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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Questions, questions
Earlier today I had cause to trawl through the digital archives of Your Favourite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N, notwithstanding inasmuch as which I came across a series of articles I ran about ten years ago, over which … Continue reading
Posted in Apparitions, Domesticrox, lifelines, questionnaire, science, Science Is Vital, Silliness
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Mentoring: Getting Personal?
Should one worry about confidentiality in the context of a mentoring relationship? Should line managers be one’s mentor? These were amongst the questions posed during the panel discussion in which I participated (along with Lab Director Jim Smith and Anne … Continue reading
Posted in advice, career progression, Communicating Science, mentor, Rosalind Franklin, wikipedia, Women in science
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Library Day in the Life 2013 – Friday
My last daily report (for Friday 26 July, but written on the following Monday). See previous reports for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I didn’t have time to do my daily blog report on Thursday night so I came in early and posted it … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries and librarians
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IUPS Part 2
Now that IUPS 2013 has concluded successfully, I thought I should add a few of my conference thoughts, other than those mentioned in the earlier post. As I am a lazy so-and-so, and I can’t muster too much thinking … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, Getting old, History, Physiology, The Life Scientific
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Landwards
This is the cover of Looking Landwards, designed by Andy Bigwood, a SF anthology to be published later this year by NewCon Press. It features stories from a lot of great writers, and me.
Posted in Looking Landwards, NewCon Press, Science-fiction, Writing & Reading
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Pride
Today the Fine City of Norwich hosted its Pride event, and me and the Croxii went to take a look. Pride comes before a Hall. In this case, Norwich City Hall
Posted in beach, Blog Norfolk!, Cromer, happiness, Imagine, John Lennon, Leviticus, libertarianism, mermaids, my inner hippy, no coach parties, on the ball city!, phallic eructations, Politicrox, Politics, Pride, pubic hair, release of calcium from intracellular stores, straight but not narrow, thinking, thinking about thinking, UKIP, you might as well give up now and shop at mr fatbastard
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Library Day in the Life 2013 – Thursday (Wikipedia edit-a-thon)
My latest daily report. See previous reports for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Today’s the day it’s all happening. Fingers crossed.
Posted in Libraries and librarians, wikipedia
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Too Many Tweets Make A… Historical Record?
In which we debate the historical usefulness of hashtags, especially in connection with scientific conferences like IUPS 2013. I occasionally get asked, within my University and even beyond it, to pose as some kind of social media expert. Which I’m … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, History, Physiology, The Interwebz, The Life Scientific
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Shame. Or should that be ‘Postdocalypse’?
Not IUPS-related tonight – but something that should concern the people there – should concern *us*. Especially the people WITH senior positions. Scientific research has a lot going for it as a job.
Posted in Science policy, The Life Scientific, Universities
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Knowing What You Know (and What You Don’t)
This whole blog of mine was meant to be about interdisciplinary science. At least, when I started it up, 3 years ago next month, that was what I had in mind as my major theme. In fact, like so much … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, colour vision, History of Science, Interdisciplinary Science, James Clerk Maxwell, Physics of Life
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