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Category Archives: work
Opportunities
It’s a horrible word, redundant. ‘No longer needed or useful; superfluous’. I don’t feel superfluous, but have to admit to feeling a little less than useful. Some people have been very kind, noting my efforts to continue to support my … Continue reading Continue reading
Back in the USSR
Last time I was here, I made a comment about how I hoped things were going to get less busy. Yeah… that didn’t work out too well.
Hard Day’s Night
Last year was mental. Back in December 2015, with about about 10 days’ notice, a colleague and I flew to Orlando on a Sunday lunchtime, ran a meeting Monday morning, and flew home Monday night. That was just the start.
Get off of my cloud
In my previous life, I pontificated on the etiquette of iPods and in particular the signals that earbuds send out. My central thesis was that if you were foolish enough to approach someone at the lab bench who was wearing … Continue reading
Posted in day job, Ill-considered rants, iPod, Office life, sociopathy, stupid coworkers, The stupid, it burns, work, Writing
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On the troposphere
The second best thing about flying to the US on business is the views you get on the way. The best thing about flying on business to the US is, of course, coming home
On meetings
Six years ago I found to relatively easy to tell my mother what I did for a living, if not exactly explain it. I could wibble on about actin polymerization and spaghetti, or messenger RNA export, or why I’d spent … Continue reading
Another New Beginning
I sense a theme. Henry’s just posted about the arrival of his new book, and Richard about that of his and Jenny’s new son. Athene’s Moving on to Pastures New and its companion, Moving On (Part II) are similarly about … Continue reading
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On leakage
Apparently there’s a word for it. I did it once, when I went to work at a small (and doomed) startup company in Cambridge, back in the tail end of 1997. I did it again four and a bit years … Continue reading
Posted in academentia, BIS, careers, leakage, Science Is Vital, The stupid, it burns, work
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Listen while you work
I feel sorry for PhD students who prefer to work in silence. Most students (and postdocs) will be assigned a desk in a shared office. Lab-dwelling students cannot realistically expect a quiet working environment. Jenny describes the sounds of science:
