Author Archives: rpg

I did my civic duty today, and braved the storms to vote. The Helsinki municipal elections aren’t quite as vital to the world’s interests as some other elections this autumn, but then they do boring things in Finland like talk … Continue reading →

One thing we discussed at the ScienceBlogging09 meeting in London in August was the relationship between blogging and more formal scientific communications. Henry Gee suggested that blogs are for half-baked ideas, that can then be criticized in the blogospheric oven … Continue reading →

An email has just been sent round our ecologists – one of those periodic attempts to organize communal storage in freezers. It included this little titbit (with my emphasis): During this month all the stuff in the room 1303 should … Continue reading →

During last couple of days I was in a meeting of our Centre of Excellence in Evolutionary Genetics and Physiology, of which I’m a member. One of the issues I talked about and we discussed was using Web 2.0 ideas … Continue reading →

I was writing a post for Open Access day yesterday, but was distracted by other things. I came back to it today, and continued. Then I realized that the points I wanted to make had already been made, either in … Continue reading →

This is something I hope they never do to my work: Joint RSS/MRC/NIHR HTA meeting on Futility Analysis in Clinical Trials (sorry, I can’t get the link to go to the right page) Ah, a quick google helps me find … Continue reading →

I’m glad we didn’t have YouTube when I was an undergrad, I might have become a developmental biologist…

I know you only really read this for The Beast, so this is him this morning:

According to one participant in a discussion we had over coffee this afternoon, all the popular blogs are about fashion and the latest styles. This may explain why Kimi1 has started writing about wigs. He’s actually worried about whether having … Continue reading →

I’ve been busy over the past week, what with teaching last Friday, and reading books about mermaids, so I haven’t blogged. As always I have n ideas to blog about, but for now I just want to recommend this lovely … Continue reading →