Category Archives: Friday Fun

Ghost un-authorships

Posted on 7 November 2014 by Bob O'H

I’m currently reading Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma, in which he documents all the naughty things done by the Pharma industry. One of the many infelicities he mentions is their habit of ghostwriting academic papers, and then asking an academic to … Continue reading →

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Attack Budgies: leaks from the secret labs of GrrlScientist

Posted on 11 October 2013 by Bob O'H

This morning I was gravely offended by being described as an “attack parrot”. The offender’s mitigation was that he had originally wanted to call me an “attack budgie”, but had refrained, presumably because he thought an attack budgie sounded less … Continue reading →

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How oil companies are helping to combat global warming

Posted on 15 February 2013 by Bob O'H

I just saw this news that Statoil is to be allowed to drill holes in the bottom of the North Sea:

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Science: girl things make you wince

Posted on 22 June 2012 by Bob O'H

On Fridays I usually try to put up trivial amusing stuff. So please take this is that spirit, because you really don’t want to take this seriously. Encouraging women into science has to be a good thing, and there are … Continue reading →

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Selecting Your LOLcats

Posted on 11 May 2012 by Bob O'H

The internet is a great thing, but it brings with it some problems. One of the future problems that we, as a civilisation, will face is the increased time we will be forced to spend finding the ideal photo for … Continue reading →

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The Reality of Pervasive, err, Something

Posted on 27 April 2012 by Bob O'H

I’m a fan of good quality graphs, and some just stand out. Including this one, from PLoS Biology last year: source It’s something to do with the reality of pervasive transcription, but frankly I don’t care.

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