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Helsinki Hub sounds nice, doesn’t it? Much better than Vancouver hub or Toronto Hub. The alliteration is alluring. So, good folks of Helsinki (and Henry7), join the Helsinki hub. Matt tells you how. Oh, and if you’re not in Helsinki, … Continue reading →

I’ve been asked to write something for the BES newsletter on double-blinding for journals. So I thought I would try out this Web2.0 thingy, so here’s a draft for you to pick over and comment on. It’s a bit too … Continue reading →

A couple of quick links showing how the review process should work. Your Review is Hereby Summarily Rejected How to deal with a Rejection Letter You have probably already read this one from Henry, but it’s still worth revisiting the … Continue reading →

I’ve just received an email about a conference on the evolution of sex and recombination. For reason that should be obvious, the title of the email was Conference: S#X & R#COMBINATION…Registration still open! I guess this is also an appropriate … Continue reading →

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 →