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Do you remember the first time?

Posted on 25 June 2012 by rpg

It is a thing of beauty.

That should be enough.

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Talkin’ ’bout my PhD-work

Posted on 25 June 2012 by Erika Cule
Pete Townshend gave memorable performances. However I am not sure that smashing up my equipment would be a good idea.

Smashing up your equipment on stage (as done by Pete Townshend) is one way to make your performance memorable, but may not be recommended for academic presentations.

For many (most?) PhD students, there comes a time when they must present their work at a conference, meeting or workshop. The student may have already spoken about their work within t Continue reading →

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Comment is Free, but Not Necessarily Sensible

Posted on 22 June 2012 by Athene Donald

Just as I was leaving my office at the end of last week’s typically frenetic activities, I was caught on the phone with an invitation to write a Comment is Free piece on women in science for last Sunday’s Observer. The aim was to complement a news story being run on the incoming President of the RSC, Professor Lesley Yellowlees.  As the first woman Continue reading →

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Science it’s a *&%$ thing.

Posted on 22 June 2012 by Sylvia McLain

I really like film Legally Blonde. If you haven’t seen it, it’s about an sorority queen (think masses of pink) who chases her boyfriend to Harvard Law school. The movie starts off with a stereotypical girly girl, Elle, (very stereotypical of what people like to *think* sorority girls are like) whose boyfriend dumps her when he goes to Continue reading →

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Science: girl things make you wince

Posted on 22 June 2012 by Bob O'H

On Fridays I usually try to put up trivial amusing stuff. So please take this is that spirit, because you really don’t want to take this seriously.
Encouraging women into science has to be a good thing, and there are good ways of doing it. But then there’s this:

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Conference

Posted on 21 June 2012 by Steve Caplan

I doubt that anyone has missed me over the past couple weeks, but I have been busy at a scientific conference, with another on the dock for next week. So I shall be brief, and leave you with a photo taken on an outing to a pretty little lake near Andover, New Hampshire. You can decide what kind of scientific meeting you think this is…

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Blog Post

Posted on 20 June 2012 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Still Alive! Not Kidnapped.

Quick Update; Boring Title.

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In which we look to the horizon: science is more vital than ever

Posted on 19 June 2012 by Jennifer Rohn

When Science Is Vital joined with hundreds of other organizations to successfully fend off threatened cuts to the science budget in 2010, the next Spending Review seemed aeons away. By now, of course, most scientists in Britain have heard the persistent rumor that the next Review will be brought forth to some unspecified date in 2013 – in oth Continue reading →

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Rubicon

Posted on 19 June 2012 by Stephen

This is a big deal for me: my first ever article in New Scientist – a magazine that I read in the library in Ballymena as a teenager. Pardon me for preening a little.

New Scientist Jun2012

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The Finch Report on open access: it’s complicated

Posted on 19 June 2012 by Stephen

A committee set up by government was never going to foment a revolution. And so it has proved to be. The recommendations of the Finch Report released today mark a cautious, measured step in the right direction, but it is nevertheless a significant one.

The Finch committee was set up by science minister David Willetts at the end of 2011 and charged Continue reading →

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