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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Back by popular demand: Hockey Pool 2013-2014
I just sent out a Rando that may be of interest to some of you: Yup, it’s that time of year again, and Twitter is abuzz with talk of a new #VWXPool! We’re using the same pool as last time, … Continue reading
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Moving On to Pastures New
Every student, undergraduate or postgraduate, at the University of Cambridge has to be a member of one of the university’s 31 colleges. To outsiders the college system may seem a little mysterious: how do they differ from Halls of Residence … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Churchill College, Collegiate Cambridge, Girton College, Master, Robinson College
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Fishface
And now, a girrafe on a unicycle one of the most exciting areas in evolutionary biology at the moment – tracing the origins of gnathostomes, or jawed vertebrates. Before I start, I owe a debt of gratitude to our Latin-America … Continue reading
Posted in acanthodian, chondrichthyan, entelognathus, evolution, Fish, gnathostome, missing link, ostracoderm, Research, shark
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Intelligent Design
When writers get together to chat, and when they’ve dispatched the introductory pleasantries of the inscrutability of agents and the availability of accountants, they’ll share war stories about their works, the sources of their inspiration, how to construct a novel, … Continue reading
Posted in Darwin, evolution, Haeckel, intelligent design, Matt Avery, natural selection, The Accidental Species, university of chicago press, Writing & Reading
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Next time you see Nelson’s Column, think of Dartmoor
Dartmoor is the largest and wildest area of open country in the south of England but despite the wildness, the human imprint is never far away. For many years, the moor has been exploited by industry which has shaped the … Continue reading
Posted in birds, china clay, dartmoor, devon, flowers, granite, Guest posts, nelson's column, richard mabey, stephen spielberg, warhorse
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Vienna
I’m just back from the annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE), which this year took place in Vienna. Regular readers with long memories might recall that I went to their meeting in Leipzig … Continue reading
Mammon and the Inferiority of Women
I’ve been reading another of those random books I’ve acquired in lieu of payment for a book review, something I wrote about previously. This time I want to turn my attention to a book called ‘The Spectacle of Intimacy: a … Continue reading
Posted in domestic hearth, Equality, History of Science, Sarah Stickney Ellis, Victorian, women's inferiority
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Will the real Edinburgh please stand up?
In continuation of my recent blog about travels to Scandinavia, I will stay with the theme of northern Europe because I have recently listened to several audiobooks whose locale is firmly rooted in Edinburgh, Scotland. The books to which I … Continue reading
The supporting cast
A PhD is, by definition, a lonely endeavour. My fellow students and I were taught the fundamentals of team work as part of our transferable skills training, only for one academic to comment that for a career in academia, they would … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Aren't friends ace, Fun, Happy life events, Life, PhD, PhD Comics, Support network
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Is Helping Women such a Bad Thing to Do?
I am not infrequently asked to give talks at other universities about gender issues, including the work we are doing in Cambridge. (Strangely, I find myself doing quite as many of these sorts of talks as physics ones.) I would … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Harvard Business School, intervention, positive action, Science Culture, Women in science
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