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Category Archives: Biological Physics
‘Pure’ versus ‘Applied’ Science
When I started this blog, more than ten years ago, I imagined I would write about physics, and specifically about physics at the interface with biology. Perhaps, I thought, I would write about exciting papers I’d read; indeed, I asked … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, education, Interdisciplinary Science, James Clerk Maxwell, Mike Cates, Pietro Cicuta, Research
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Knowing What You Know (and What You Don’t)
This whole blog of mine was meant to be about interdisciplinary science. At least, when I started it up, 3 years ago next month, that was what I had in mind as my major theme. In fact, like so much … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, colour vision, History of Science, Interdisciplinary Science, James Clerk Maxwell, Physics of Life
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Splattering Cream across Tradition
The Royal Institution is a venerable organisation: dating back to 1799, it is situated in an amazingly impressive building on Albemarle Street in London. This was the road that became the original one way street in order to cope with … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Communicating Science, Friday Evening Discourse, goo, Royal Institution
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Hypothesising about Interdisciplinarity
How often have I heard it said that ‘the policies are good but the implementation is shaky’? I could make that comment about many of the issues around women in science, where the best-intentioned policies are defeated by negativity, implicit … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Doug Kell, grant proposal, hypotheses, Interdisciplinary Science, referees, Research Council
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Falling Down the Cracks: The Challenge for Interdisciplinary Science
Let’s hear it for interdisciplinary science. Everyone says what a good idea it is. The research councils strategic plans tend to laud it. And yet, and yet….Do they mean it?
Posted in BBSRC, Biological Physics, EPSRC, Interdisciplinary Science, refereeing
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Standing on my Soapbox (in the Rain)
Standing on a soapbox may seem an odd thing for a scientist to do, but every year a bunch of women do just that in an attempt to capture the attention of passers-by on the South Bank in London. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, Communicating Science, goo, Interdisciplinary Science, proteins, Public Engagement, soft matter physics, Women in science
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A Work in Progress
No science discipline now can (or should) be seen as a silo, content to keep its boundaries closed against marauders from elsewhere. This is just as true of physics as any of the other sciences. For me, working at the … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Physics, education, Interdisciplinary Science, IOP, undergraduate teaching
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