Author Archives: Jennifer Rohn

As I rode home on the Underground this evening, packed in shoulder-to-shoulder with my fellow commuters, I couldn’t help but notice the headlines in the forest of tabloids brandished at eye level around me. No minutiae of the world of … Continue reading →

Time is running out to submit your favorite blogs for the chance to be included in The Open Laboratory 2008, the annual anthology of the world’s best blogs about science. As this year’s Editor, I’d like to remind everyone that … Continue reading →

We’re all aflutter here at Mind The Gap: TV cameras are coming to Fiction Lab! Yes, our humble scientific novel salon will be invaded next month by a full crew from Brook Lapping, a London production company interested in making … Continue reading →

Mwah ha ha haaaa. My plans for world domination have just ticked one step closer to reality. Lock up your fish, chips and mushy peas, good folk of Britain – I’m not going anywhere for a long, long time. A … Continue reading →

It seems to be a truth universally acknowledged amongst scientists that there is a shortage of students coming up in the system to replace them. This sentiment is echoed by science communicators, fueled by trade and industry bodies and, via … Continue reading →

I think there is no pain more acute than that of unrequited love, especially unrequited love that devolves from a formerly happy relationship. And the more perfect the love rival, the more painful the love object’s indifference. But what do … Continue reading →

In my real-life social circles, I am known for being fashionably late. So it’s only fitting that I mention the recent SciBlog 2008 conference a scandalous three days after the event, even though the hangovers have faded, dozens of reports … Continue reading →

In some long-forgotten undergraduate anthropology course, I learned that our primitive ancestors spent no more than twenty hours a week on sustenance activities. The logical extension was, of course, that our forty-hour-plus work ethic was a sort of modern madness. … Continue reading →

It is a grey, rainy bank holiday weekend here in London so my news is appropriately frivolous. If you inspect the image below, you will see that my local Tesco supermarket in Surrey Quays shopping center is carrying an own-brand … Continue reading →

When I returned to the lab last year, I wasn’t just changing fields of expertise: I was encountering a whole new way of doing science. Instead of tinkering on one gene or pathway, I found myself thrown headlong into the … Continue reading →