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Over the past couple of months at Nature Network, there have been a variety of discussions about good writing (these discussions seems to have started shortly after I arrived. Are they trying to tell me something?). One of the early … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago I read an interview with a scientist from the US. One of the things he explained was that his strategy for continuing to do research was to avoid administration. Just like we’d all like to … Continue reading →

… and when you eventually publish an old posts, it keeps the date it was first saved.

In today’s Observer there is a story that will gladden the hearts of conservationists across the UK. The new way to tackle invasive species is to eat them. According to the paper, grey squirrel (the invasive American species) is the … Continue reading →

Bora has a post up about impact factors that links to a discussion in Epidemiology. It’s the usual stuff: how awful they are because they have all sorts of problems. We all know this, but of course it doesn’t stop … Continue reading →

Tag clouds are a neat way of summarising the common topics on blogs (the cloud on HolfordWatch is amusing, and this one for the Democratic race is neat). This week they’ve hit the science blogging world. The author of Clastic … Continue reading →

I never got any further with this. I’ll post it anyway, and please leave a comment if you notice this post!

I’m reading a book about pedagogy in higher education, and I’m presently trying to go through a chapter on course planning. It’s important and should be interesting, but I’m annoyed with having to handle sentences like this:

From The Onion: Woman Overjoyed By Giant Uterine Parasite Need I add anything?

I ended up at Nature Networks thanks to a post on my previous blog about a paper in TREE which claimed that the proportion of female authors was increased by double-blond peer review1. In a nutshell, I argued that there … Continue reading →