Category Archives: original research

RBO Work

Posted on 10 March 2013 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Lots of things going on, but nothing substantial enough for a stand-alone post. So here are some bullets! Having read numerous articles about how bad it is for you to sit all day, even if you’re very active at other … Continue reading →

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The (author)shipping news

Posted on 10 May 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

(please excuse the rampant self-promotion that follows) Well well well, what do we have here? But wait!

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Scooped – why I have a hard time getting on board with Open Science

Posted on 3 May 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Well, now that all the excitement‘s dying down (for now), I finally find myself with enough time and motivation to start writing a follow-up post to the inaugural Science Online Vancouver event, which I attended on a very rainy Thursday … Continue reading →

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A very retro seminar

Posted on 13 April 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

(now that Big Complicated Grant has progressed to the next stage and I can draw breath again, let’s see if I can remember how to write about anything other than hockey!) I believe I’ve mentioned in the past that I … Continue reading →

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Portable document FAIL

Posted on 31 August 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Provisional PDF of a paper in press from my postdoc lab: Are they editing papers with marker pens now?! Pretty damn foolish…

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Cost to benefit ratios

Posted on 13 July 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

From today’s RSS feeds: 1) Alilain WJ, Horn KP, Hu H, Dick TE, Silver J: “Functional regeneration of respiratory pathways after spinal cord injury“. Nature 2011: 475: 196-200 (This article also showed up in my BBC science feed, with the … Continue reading →

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