This post was originally posted at ScienceGrrl.
Another year, another occasion to thump the Royal Society for the make-up of its new fellows. This time it was Nature that screamed ‘Royal Society still trails the US National Academy in female members’, thereby managing to convey shifty behaviour by the RS. In fact eight of this year̵ Continue reading
I’m watching the storm predictors on the news, with tornado reports and wall clouds about 30 miles to the southwest, and bemoaning our decision to miss our daughter’s Carmina Burana performance with 350 vocalists at Omaha’s Holland Performing Arts Center. These are tough decisions that need to be made, probably a half dozen times Continue reading
Last night on Twitter someone posted a ‘selfie’ taken by the Mars Curiosity rover.
It’s quite a photograph, particularly since it captures a fantastic piece of human technology amidst the landscape of another planet. The detail is what makes the picture. If you click to get a larger view you can see the nuts and bolts holding the Continue reading
Over the years I have benefitted significantly from mentors. Two in particular stand out: in Cambridge Sir Sam Edwards (whom I wrote about here) and, at that critical juncture when as a postdoc I quit the world of metals that had left me cold and started working on polymers, Ed Kramer. The latter was the man who metaphorically picked me up and insp Continue reading
Crox Minor is a Youth Ambassador for a charity called Children of Peace, which aims to foster links between children in the Middle East. You might remember that she had a bake sale at school which raised £85 for the charity – you can see the story here.
To you, it may seem small. But unlike most people, who sit on the sidelines of a problem a Continue reading
‘You answer it.’
‘No, YOU answer it.’
The is a modified version of a couple of posts that originally appeared in December 2006 on ‘Life of a lab rat’, my blog at the University of Sydney. Which is now sadly defunct.
It’s not what you know, it is who you know, especially when it comes to medical matters. And if you know someone who can prescribe antibiotics and get yo Continue reading
Kids are wonderful. Also generous. When they were small and running with stenchly ichors from various orifices, they donated a wide variety of microscopic organisms for the amusement of my immune system. That was then. Now, though. Continue reading
Before you can say “endocytic recycling,” there it is, OMICS strikes again with its ridiculous ‘in-your-face‘ attempts to hoodwink researchers into submitting manuscripts (and money). I am glad to be an “eminent, efficient and supportive adept,” but: 1) I don’t work in the field of Molecular Biomarkers & Continue reading
Last week Donald Sterling, former owner of the LA Clippers Basketball team was banned for life from the sport and given a $2.5m fine from the US National Basketball Association over his rather overt racist remarks.
The arguments against this banning, as always, usually focus around having the ‘right to say’ what ever you want to say. T Continue reading
