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Category Archives: Interdisciplinary Science
Evolution
No, not in the Darwinian sense but more in a socio-cultural one. This week I am at an annual conference that I have been attending on and off (but more on) for nearly 30 years, which is a rather sobering … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinary Science, Research, Science Culture
Tagged conferences, networking, young faculty
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Onions and Unconscious Bias
I have written before about my work on carrots, and it’s also the case that I have published on onions, in rather the same spirit as the carrot work: an environmental scanning electron microscopy study of onion failure, as well … Continue reading
Publish and Be Damned
In this age of h indices and impact factors, the choice of where to publish seems to get ever more important and complex. It used to be, as a physicist, the place to publish was PRL – or at least … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Communicating Science, Interdisciplinary Science, Research
Tagged Alzheimer's Disease, h index, journals, Nature, publication, starch
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Lies, Damned Lies – and Rank-ordered Lists
The end of the year is traditionally the time for lists remembering the year just gone: lists of those who died (and, for so-called stars, their marriages and divorces too), events that happened, films that bombed or triumphed, public gaffes … Continue reading
Where’s the Wow Factor?
Where’s the Wow Factor? was a question posed at the Physics Meets Biology meeting in September in the context of teaching Biological Physics, as I discussed before. I was reminded of this question while attending this year’s Institute of Physics … Continue reading
