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Monthly Archives: January 2017
The president needs a civics lesson
President Trump needs a civics lesson. First I would suggest that he reads 1st amendment of the US Constitution. I know this might be hard for a president who doesn’t read but it is a short read. Alternately, he could … Continue reading
Posted in 1st amendment, Muslim Ban, Trump, Trump executive order
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Last Saturday:
Photo taken outside the Trump building. I borrowed the sign from a lovely group of people I met at the march Up next: March for Science (the Vancouver chapter)
Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the White House
Full disclosure: I am not a psychiatrist. But it doesn’t take a board certified psychiatrist to see ominous parallels between the behavior of the recently elected president of the United States and a mental illness known as Narcissistic Personality Disorder … Continue reading
Posted in crowd size, inauguration, narcissistic personality disorder, Politics, president, presidential elections, Trump, US
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The ABC of panel scoring: Anchoring, Bias and Committee Procedures
Academic life is particularly full of rank ordered lists, even if they are frequently not transparently available. From undergraduate examinations to professorial promotions, from REF (and in future TEF) marks to grant-awarding panels, the scores matter. Anyone who has ever … Continue reading
Posted in committee meetings, decisions, rank-ordered lists, Research, Science Funding
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No escape from the geeky scientist phenotype–or is that stereotype?
Professor John Nerdelbaum Frink, Jr., scientist from “The Simpsons.” A familiar stereotype.
Posted in doddering fools, exxon, Geek, humor, intoverts, nerd, phenotype, Research, science, scientist, spotify, stereotype, the simpsons
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In which we sort ourselves out
Writing space: the final frontier When you move into a new house, you unpack about 90% of your belongings in the first months. And then, of course, there’s that lingering tail that seems to get put off indefinitely. This asymptote … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic bliss, Lablit, Writing
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Mentoring Matters, but for Whom?
In response to my recent post on New Year Frustrations, I received a tweet complaining that in this particular person’s university female postdocs contractually could not receive mentoring. That statement can be read in two ways: either that female postdocs … Continue reading
Posted in advice, appraisal, early career researchers, postdocs, Research, Women in science
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Synaptic Transfer and Interdisciplinarity
I spent much of the Christmas break admiring my new granddaughter’s constantly changing and newly acquired skills as she progressed from 8 weeks old to 10; the sense of new synaptic connections being made was very strong as her hand-eye … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, david mitchell, David Rowan, Interdisciplinary Science, Unconscious bias, Virginia Valian
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In which I bring Lego to lab meeting
Our floor recently initiated a monthly lunchtime meeting as an informal feedback conduit. Although the individual labs all work in one mammoth communal room, the research that goes on is disparate. The key to propelling your project forward might be … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Scientific thinking
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