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Author Archives: Cath@VWXYNot?
On having a heart and using my voice
I recently updated the photo on my UK drivers license, and had the new card sent to my parents’ address. They received it a few weeks ago and couriered it back to me (along with the original marriage certificate I’d … Continue reading
Whaddya mean “that’s not normal?!”
North Yorkshire, circa 1987. A classroom full of nine- and ten-year-olds. An assignment to write a story that involved food.
Posted in career, communication, education, family, food glorious food, freakishness, grant wrangling, personal, Silliness
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Could this be…
…the most useless list of spellcheck suggestions of all time? (I’m sure a tamarind genome sequence is in the works, somewhere…) …the worst possible weather in which to be running around collecting grant signatures from PIs in three different buildings?
Posted in career, drunkenness, English language, idiocy, photos, publishing, science, screenshots, Silliness, snow, technology, Vancouver
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Time to write a final report on a completed grant!
Don't worry, it's only a first draft
Posted in cancer research, career, communication, English language, grant wrangling, Instagram, photos, Silliness
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Hockey Pool Update, Weeks 19 and 20
Many thanks to Chall and ScientistMother for hosting Weeks 17 and 18, respectively! I messed up a bit by thinking Ricardipus had signed up for Week 19, but he hadn’t – he’d just said that he could do it “some … Continue reading
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Never gonna let you down?
I have somehow managed to retain some semblance of a utopian view of science. I don’t mean to say that I’m blind to its flaws or that I’m not at all cynical about it. But I think I’m less cynical … Continue reading
Because it’s been far too sciencey around here lately
The best Rube Goldberg device I’ve ever seen on the Best of YouTube podcast (and there have been a few): and, inspired by a Twitter conversation with Richard Wintle yesterday about gnus (inspired in turn by someone at work asking … Continue reading
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CIHR: Canada Innovating to Help Review?
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is this country’s major source of government funding for biomedical research – the equivalent of the US NIH. They’ve just released a document describing some proposed changes to their grant mechanism portfolio and … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, career, current affairs, grant wrangling, Politics, science
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Designing an online grant submission system?!
Good for you! Let me help you out! In my four-and-a-bit years as a grant wrangler, I’ve applied to a bewildering array of Canadian and international government and charitable funding agencies.
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Lay it on the line
As I mentioned way back in 2008, I’m often called upon to write lay abstracts for my department’s grant applications and website, and – less often – for press releases and assorted other documents. This is still one of my … Continue reading
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