Monthly Archives: December 2010

Same Procedure as EVERY Year

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Austin

Just to let you know: I’m refraining from posting an end of year round-up. This is partly because, since this blog only started in December 2009, nigh-on everything you will find in the archives listed on the right is from … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Procrastination, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Ome sweet ome

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Austin

It has been a rather exhausting December, for all kinds of reasons – one of them, though not the biggest, being the move of this blog into its new home at Occam’s Typewriter. Consequently, since my last working day at … Continue reading →

Posted in Annoyances, Grumbling, Humour, The Life Scientific, Universities | 10 Comments

Archive Reboot Fail – I hate moving

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Austin

A quick glance at the sidebar will show you that, like my friend Stephen Curry over at Reciprocal Space, I have had a go at importing the not-all-that-extensive Not Ranting… archive from the blog’s previous home. Unfortunately, the import functionality … Continue reading →

Posted in Annoyances, Procrastination | 6 Comments

I’m a celebrity scientist – get me out of here

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Austin

Henry Gee’s recent post on Dancing With the Scientists, bemoaning the lack of scientists in the currently ubiquitous celebrity reality shows, reminded me that a few years ago I had written a piece about exactly this, which I promised I … Continue reading →

Posted in Grumbling, Humour, Procrastination, The Life Scientific | 10 Comments

Settling in

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Austin

Sorry, another “place-holder” post, end of teaching semester and pre-Xmas “Help I still haven’t done XYZ!” kind of thing, all a bit frantic, hopefully some new content coming…. I’ve just penned an official sign-off post at Nature Network to indicate … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Pseudoscience, Science policy | 9 Comments

Imperial measures – but measuring for what?

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Austin

In which we get a glimpse of the future. And it isn’t very comforting. Somewhere else in the Blogoverse, I recently wrote that: “In Universities up and down the UK, University managers are considering the implications of the Government’s funding … Continue reading →

Posted in Science policy, The Life Scientific | 15 Comments