Category Archives: The Life Scientific

Job or vocation

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Austin

I have recently been doing a bit of live on-line virtual commentating. Strange but true. I’m not sure exactly why. Perhaps it is another of my frustrated ambitions to be a sports commentator (of which more later). Or an online … Continue reading →

Posted in Chess, Conferences, Nerdishness, The Interwebz, The Life Scientific, Uncategorized | 9 Comments

More family business

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Austin

Just a quick heads-up that my dad has posted an extended comment (or I’ve posted it for him) on the previous blogpost about his 7th decade of scientific publication. The comment has some links to more early 60s x-ray crystallography … Continue reading →

Posted in Family business, History, Humour, Procrastination, The Life Scientific, Uncategorized, Universities | 1 Comment

Some family business

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Austin

Readers of this blog will know that I am not the only scientist in the Elliott family, nor the best one. My father Gerald, who pops up occasionally on this blog in the comments, or even from my mentioning him … Continue reading →

Posted in History, The Life Scientific, Uncategorized | 10 Comments

More peer review. Zzzzzz.

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Austin

In which, late as ever, I remember to say something about peer review. There has been a bit of a flurry of commenting about peer review around OT just recently, with both RPG and Girl, Interrupting weighing in. The general … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Peer review, Pseudoscience, Science policy, The Life Scientific | 8 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

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