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Monthly Archives: May 2014
100 years of…. biochemistry!
No, not 100 Years of Solitude – Biochemistry! Last week was a very special occasion in our department – the celebration of 100 years of existence of our department, the Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB). 100 years is … Continue reading
Posted in 100 years, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, BMB, celebration, Nebraska, omaha, Research, science, UNMC
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Mood Music
‘Are you dead or just revising?’ was a telling question I remember seeing as graffiti on a wall in Cambridge many years ago. This is the time of year when that question seems particularly pertinent. Signs abound in college courts … Continue reading
Posted in offices, revision, Science Culture, silence
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Past Women in Science, Present Digital Age
Following on from my last post I’d like to discuss experiences of a very different interdisciplinary meeting which I went to after immediately after the STS one I described there (I suspect I will return to that theme another time). … Continue reading
Posted in Ada Lovelace, digitisation, heroines, History of Science, Revealing Lives, Trowelblazers, Women in science
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Reading into a major lifetime change?
Last Sunday, I celebrated the publication of “A Degree of Betrayal” by doing a book signing at Omaha’s best book store, “The Bookworm.” My son baked brownies, my editor prepared a short passage for me to read as an introduction, … Continue reading
Posted in "Matter Over Mind", A Degree of Betrayal, author, book sales, Books, ebooks, kindle, library, omaha, reading, The Bookworm
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Under the microscope
This week I attended ‘Circling the Square’ – a conference on science, science communication and science policy at the University of Nottingham (lovely Campus – well worth a visit). I certainly felt in the minority being a physical scientist rather … Continue reading
Posted in Circling the square, science and the media, science communication, Science policy
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Social Scientist for the Day?
This week I attended what was probably my first serious social sciences/STS (variously Science and Technology Studies or Science, Technology and Society) conference in my life. I was only able to attend the first day and I came away not … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Communicating Science, communication, journalism, Science Culture, social science
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In which I become Justin Bieber
Sometimes the comment thread is the best part about blogging for The Guardian: The ultimate accolade
Posted in Silliness, Stereotypes
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Goodbye
After much thought and changes-of-mind I have decided to leave OT and set up shop elsewhere. I stress that my reasons for leaving have nothing to do with my friends and colleagues at OT for whom I have only the … Continue reading
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In which my language becomes everyone’s – for a moment
Following on from my piece in the Guardian this week about the chickenpox vaccine, my friend Buffy clued me in to this clever little number in the Onion that had been published the day before. It’s too gloriously sunny and … Continue reading
Posted in Lablit, Scientific thinking, Silliness
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What Can You Do in a Minute?
Responding to the simplest questions about life as an academic scientist seems to pose me serious problems. I have written before about the difficulty I have in answering the straightforward question ‘who inspired you?’ because I don’t feel as if … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, education, excitement, microscopy, practical work
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