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Open Access Headaches

Posted on 3 November 2013 by Stephen

Tense, nervous headache? Feelings of confusion? Mood swings from warm optimism to a gnawing sense of futility? You’ve been reading about open access again, haven’t you? I know because I have and I recognise the symptoms. Continue reading →

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Tees

Posted on 2 November 2013 by Henry Gee

Many years ago I read one of those daft lists, you know the kind, you find them in magazines, colour sections and so on, with titles such as ‘twelve ways to know you’re not a pickled cucumber’ or ‘fourteen ways to know whether you need another shed’. This one listed ‘ten ways to know you’re over thirty̵ Continue reading →

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Happy Hallowe’en!

Posted on 31 October 2013 by Cath@VWXYNot?

From a Teenage Mutant Incompetent Ninja Turtle, and dead-Goose-from-Top-Gun

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Yes, that’s a saw blade through my belly – like I said, incompetent ninja. I also had a backpack on under the t-shirt to make a shell, but it didn’t come out in any of the photos

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It’s Samhain, Already!

Posted on 31 October 2013 by Henry Gee

Welcome to our ‘umble ‘ome …
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Our ‘umble ‘ome, earlier today.

… where you’ll be greeted by Mysterious Hooded Figures.

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A Mysterious Hooded Figure, yesterday. Continue reading →

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Immigration

Posted on 30 October 2013 by Henry Gee

Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1655 – the days of the Protectorate. In that year, Oliver Cromwell received an embassy from the Netherlands, of a Dutch Jew, one Manasseh Ben Israel, who asked the Lord Protector whether Jews could come and live in Britain. Cromwell convened a conference to argue the point. This, the Whitehall Conference, Continue reading →

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Retrospective Impact

Posted on 29 October 2013 by Athene Donald

Recently I participated in a so-called ‘speed dating’ event for schoolgirls, organised under the auspices of Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women campaign which this event was launching. Spearheaded by Miriam Gonzalez (aka Nick Clegg’s wife, who is an international lawyer in her day job), she had invited a further 9 of us to join Continue reading →

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Untangling the wrangling angle

Posted on 29 October 2013 by Cath@VWXYNot?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

I’ll wait for the 5.5 year retrospective post to see just how much grant writing you *didn’t* get involved in… ;)

Thus spake the prophet Wintle in the year 2012, upon learning that I was starting a new job that would, in my words, “be somewhat similar to my current one, but with much more Continue reading →

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When the sh*te hits the asphalt

Posted on 27 October 2013 by Steve Caplan

It’s a beautiful day in Omaha, Nebraska. Autumn foliage is spectacular this year, likely due to decent rains and very gradual temperature drops. So I took my favorite dog, and headed off to my favorite nearby lake.

I am a conscientious dog-partner (never “owner”), and I always take a big bottle of water, a dog-dish, and plastic ba Continue reading →

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Paying it forward

Posted on 26 October 2013 by Erika Cule
Requirements for bound copies of the thesis

I submitted a physical, bound final copy of my thesis.

Once the corrections to my thesis had been approved by my examiners, I ordered copies bound in regulation purple and submitted one to Imperial College Library. As of March this year, a purple bound copy is no longer required – students submit their final copy electronically and their thes Continue reading →

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How old is your method?

Posted on 25 October 2013 by Bob O'H

Over on the Methods in Ecology & Evolution blog, Sam (our Assistant Editor) has just put up a podcast she edited from interviews made by Barb Anderson at Intecol this year. She wandered the meeting with a sonic screwdriver asking assorted ecologists to talk about the methods they use – the oldest, the newest, and what method they would wa Continue reading →

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