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The Plot Thickens [6]

Posted on 15 December 2011 by Steve Caplan

Well yes, it’s true. The plot for my upcoming work-in-progress (AKA-barely started) novel is thickening. No, you read that right, not “sickening,” but “thickening.” But as this all begins to take shape, I find myself coming back from an adrenalin high coming from the high altitude at the Annual American Society for Cel Continue reading →

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New Occam’s year resolutions (happy birthday to us…) [7]

Posted on 13 December 2011 by Sylvia McLain

Not only is it birthday 1 for Occam’s Typewriter but last week was my literal birthday. So maybe a good time to reflect about what I can do differently in the New Year.

I have a new job since I started blogging at Occam’s T; a new academic job and as we know the UK Research Excellence Framework (RAE) is on the horizon. In case you don& Continue reading →

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Festive Pig [15]

Posted on 13 December 2011 by Henry Gee

defiantcover
Just a quick reminder to get your orders in for Defiant the Guinea Pig – Firefighter!, a mini-epic adventure written by me and Crox Minima. I’ve been selling this special boutique edition for a limited time only as a print-on-demand paperback, while my agent is courting editors and publishers with it. I’m withdrawing it from sale Continue reading →

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Reserving judgment [17]

Posted on 13 December 2011 by Steve Caplan

I would probably prefer to write another blog on the sense of entitlement that seems to be permeating through the ranks of today’s graduate students. However, unlike some pseudonym-wielding bloggers, who hide their identities behind closed doors in order to espouse vile and spiteful comments, my own blog is of course an open book. Meaning that ther Continue reading →

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On site [6]

Posted on 12 December 2011 by rpg

Just checking in. Unfortunately, I’m not staying at the US Grant in San Diego

US Grant

but I am involved in the output of what went on here:

Set

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Dockin’ Around the Christmas Tree [9]

Posted on 12 December 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Upon hearing that Mr E Man and I will be heading to his sister’s house for Christmas and therefore don’t have a Christmas tree at home this year*, our friends invited us round to their place on Friday to help them decorate their tree. As their two-year-old daughter “helped” by climbing on her Dad’s back while he lay on Continue reading →

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Classic Rock For Dogs

Posted on 11 December 2011 by Henry Gee

One of my favourite books is Poetry for Cats – the Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse by Henry Beard, a writer on National Lampoons (I believe) as well as the author of such titles as French for Cats and X-Treme Latin. It’s the ideal gift for anyone in your life who is fond of poetry. And, notwithstanding inasmuch as whi Continue reading →

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Appraising the Future

Posted on 11 December 2011 by Athene Donald

Back in those distant days of the Thatcher Government, various changes to the way academics worked were introduced, whose details are rather lost in the mists of time (or at least lost in the mists of my memory). One consequence was the formal disappearance of tenure in new contracts, for instance. Another change was the requirement for some sort o Continue reading →

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Winter cometh [11]

Posted on 11 December 2011 by Steve Caplan

Winter cometh to our lilac bush, recently

The problem with being a scientist, and a cell biologist as such, is that everything reminds me of cellular organelles. These icicles remind me of the membrane bound tubules involved in endocytic recycling…

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Deer OT ….

Posted on 10 December 2011 by KristiV

…. I wish you a belated Happy Birthday! I’m preparing for a meeting, so I got nothing at the moment, except some photos of wacky white-tailed deer, hanging out on campus.

youngbuck

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