Category Archives: Blogging the PhD

Some recent articles from the blogosphere and further afield: From the New York Times Magazine, Steven Pinker piece on his participation in George Church’s Personal Genome Project. A number of journalists and writers have recorded their experiences of genetic testing … Continue reading →

Do you ever read a piece of research and wish you could take that idea and run with it? As part of their special collection on Education & Technology, Science published a report Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on … Continue reading →

There have been a number of posts around the blogosphere and elsewhere about the merits of taking a break As the end of term approached a couple of weeks ago, some of my friends at college were alarmed when I … Continue reading →

Perhaps once he has had enough of complaining about advertising-equivalent exposure and Britney Spears’ breasts, Ben Goldacre could take a look at this article. The lengthly title, Discrepancies in sample size calculations and data analyses reported in randomised trials: comparison … Continue reading →

Journalist Ben Hammersley tries out 23andMe ‘s services. ” The test has added, apart from curiosity, nothing meaningful. ” I believe that the download will be available for a week; after that, you’ll have to listen again by finding the … Continue reading →

Here on Nature Network, several bloggers have lamented the difficulty in keeping up with the literature in their field. BananaSLUG adds even more of a challenge! By throwing a random word into your Google search string, BananaSlug will return hits … Continue reading →

Whilst in Boston, in between sightseeing excursions… …I took the opportunity to sneak into a real, live, Nature Office, to catch up with Anna whom I met at SciBlog08, and Corrie (who was there too!). We would like to say … Continue reading →

Boston-dwelling NN blogger: “So what’s it like then?” Me: “Well, put it this way, I don’t think I’ve ever see 800 such enthusiastic science undergraduates in one place…” BDNNB: “That sounds horrible!” – Not horrible, but electric, exhilerating and exciting, … Continue reading →

I spotted a flyer on campus just now from these people It seems that oxbridge essays have branched out into a number of areas where they can make money help students with their studies. Oxbridge Essays have been chastised for … Continue reading →