A few weeks ago I blogged about my new Schlenk Line and now there is a new addition to the lab.
My newest piece of BIG kit arrived Monday (unannounced). After a few weeks of tender, at most Universities if you buy anything over £25,000 you have to get bids, the lowest wins (well most of the time), after 18 weeks of ordering (waiting) she arrived! Continue reading
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Please read the Wellcome Trust’s policy on open access. And then adopt it. Thank you.
Continue readingLast autumn I had the pleasure of attending the awards ceremonies for two science writing prizes. They are similar competitions but have individual characteristics and constraints: the Max Perutz prize is sponsored by the MRC, which is a taxpayer-funded organisation and a distant branch of government; the Wellcome Trust prize is sponsored by Wellco Continue reading
Even though I initially trained as a virologist, it’s a little known factoid that I did my PhD in an old-fashioned Microbiology department – back in the days when “microbiology” really meant “bacteria”. We virologists populated a small unfashionable pocket in an otherwise seriously old-school establishment. From Continue reading
And so, another holiday weekend has come and gone. While our cousins to the south have been enjoying Presidents’ Day (a.k.a. “Washington’s Birthday”, and no, I’m not getting into that debate, thank you very much), we here in the Province of Ontario have been blessed with Family Day. Continue reading
Many thanks to Chall and ScientistMother for hosting Weeks 17 and 18, respectively!
I messed up a bit by thinking Ricardipus had signed up for Week 19, but he hadn’t – he’d just said that he could do it “some time soon” – so this is a double update! I’ve now added a list of who’s doing which weeks to Continue reading
I have always felt that the idea of quotas – for increasing the number of women on FTSE100 Boards, for instance – is a bad idea because it implies women need help in order to get themselves into positions of seniority. Likewise, when I heard a number of years ago that the NAS had in mind to have a fast-track for women to become Fellows (I don’t kn Continue reading
Just over a week ago, I had the opportunity to once again visit lovely Vancouver, Canada, a city I’ve frequently spent a day or so in for various grant-related review panels, strategy meetings, and the like. Always fly-in, fly-out, unfortunately – the last occasion on which I spent any time there was… actually I don’t rememb Continue reading
