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As a developmental biologist, I have found my calling in applying what I have learned about normal embryogenesis to better understanding the pathophysiology of various human congenital malformations. Continue reading
I love maths. My adoration of maths has, however, been largely unrequited. Having long since abandoned my one-way devotion as hopeless, I have recently been forced into a number of startling episodes of nostalgia, now that Crox Minor (15) is studying hard for her GCSE exams at school. Notwithstanding inasmuch as which, her efforts bring back for me Continue reading
‘Mess in the Trenches, Chemin-des-Dames, 1916′, by the Cromer Poultry Great War Re-Enactment Society.
Sunday was a Big Day in Frankfurt. Next to the building where I work there is – or rather was – an ugly tower block, the AfE tower. We only move into our building last summer, and the whole time there has been building work on both side of us (on the other side of our building, workmen have been repeatedly digging an filling in the same Continue reading
Yesterday was my first anniversary. See this and this for more details of what the anniversary was.
A first anniversary is a special day – and hopefully the first of many more to come. But, though it marks a whole year, it is quite a lowly event in the cannon of anniversaries. Continue reading
Evidence-based policy, this phrase gets bandied about so often, but it is not always clear how it is meant to be applied. Notwithstanding the desire to have scientific evidence inform things that are actually scientifically based, such as better practices in the NHS – it is often far from clear how evidence can be used in policy. What evid Continue reading
Do you feel this phrase describes you as you go through your professional life? Do you feel as if you’re a fraud and whereas everyone else knows what they are doing or deserve the position they have attained, you don’t? And, on top of this, do you worry that you are about to be found out? If you answered yes to one or both these questi Continue reading
A couple weeks ago I traveled to Purdue University to deliver 2 seminars. The first one, the “original invitation” was from the Dept. of Biology and was entitled “Lessons on the Biogenesis of Tubular Recycling Endosomes.” The second one, if I am not mistaken, was sponsored by the Dept. of History with involvement of the Depa Continue reading
Two recent conversations sparked by cryptic notes I scribbled on post-its:
At home
Mr E Man: “Cath, what’s an e-Pig?”
Me: “What? Continue reading
Americans do love collecting leftovers for their dogs. I took this picture at the highly recommended Ironworks BBQ restaurant in Austin, TX, last month.
Over here we are a little less free and easy about what our dogs consume, as evidenced by this notice, pictured yesterday outside Blickling Hall, a National Trust property near Cromer whose fine s Continue reading
