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I am proud to be one of them.
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle. Officer, gentleman, reprobate and wit. I wish I was just like him. Continue reading
International Congress of Human Genetics – day 1
Yes indeed, some largely-irrelevant blogging from the International Congress of Human Genetics in Montreal. Continue reading
Science Policy and the Canadian Election – or maybe not.
So we’re down to it – only one day left until the Canadian Federal Election, although many who are more organized than I am have already voted in the advance polls. As usual, our beloved national broadcaster has aggregated a … Continue reading
Posted in Funding, Guest posts, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Canada, election, funding, policy vacuum, politics, science
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Whupping photos in shape for biology journals
The last time I purchased a piece of software to edit photographs, it was Photoshop 6 for PC. I had tried version 7, which did the job well, on others’ computers, but version 6 did the job, and did it … Continue reading
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Expat scientists, Rare Disease Day 2011 and stupid politics
I received notification through Facebook (who says LinkedIn is only for professional conversations, and Facebook only for silly pet antics?) from a Portuguese former colleague from my French Ph.D. lab, who has since gone to live in Germany, England, and … Continue reading
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On becoming (naturalised, half) British
I am undertaking ‘a journey to citizenship’ and happily (thankfully) I just passed the test and can apply for citizenship soon. Fortunately I can be a US/UK citizen; the UK isn’t particularly concerned with dual citizenships and the US wants … Continue reading
The Age of Fulfilment
In which the author exhibits his cheap and lazy nature by faffling around a bit, eventually buying Jenny Rohn’s latest novel “The Honest Look” via several geographically separated countries. Continue reading
Open tabs
Link-love, heart, vessel, skin, cancer and eye development, and a tiger cub. Continue reading
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Peer-review – I am beatin’ that horse until it dies!
I just published another post on peer review in response to Cameron Neylon’s post about peer-review here . Specifically I didn’t like his example in the post as I don’t think its a good allegory for peer-review. But to spare … Continue reading
Peer-review here we go again …
Once again the peer-review vs. science online debate appears! In an article by Peer review: Trial by Twitter – Apoorva Mandavilli talks about a lot of things but it mentions that science is getting ‘torn apart’ in the online media… … Continue reading
