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A year… only partially digested

Posted on 10 December 2011 by Austin

So Occam’s Typewriter is a year old. Where does the time go…?

(No answers involving quantum theory, please. Or homeopathy. Continue reading →

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…And so say all of us…and so say all… [11]

Posted on 10 December 2011 by Steve Caplan

My belated congrats–couldn’t resist joining in, although I was a latecomer. So a quick ramble:

One day, I was minding my gap, when someone came up to me and said, “I have a confession–I was driving by the city limits and stopped to watch the end of the pier show and read athene donald’s blog.” “Were you tra Continue reading →

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Regions

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Henry Gee

My apologies for being late to the party. I could plead that I missed the bus, thinking – mistakenly, as it turned out – that it went to the station, but I shall not plumb that particular chthonos. I shall instead hold my head high, present my apologies and quip that whereas I might be late, I am at least not as late as the Late King Ge Continue reading →

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Is this a post? [20]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Frank Norman

Today is a special day on Occams Typewriter. One year ago the site burst onto the blogosphere.

I had an idea to write a witty history of Occams Typewriter in the form of a Christmas carol, but I didn’t have enough wit. I couldn’t get past the first line:

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Stocktake

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Erika Cule

One year since the launch of Occam’s Typewriter, one year since my MPhil to PhD upgrade exam, and one year (more or less) to go until the end of the PhD. This seems a suitable place for stocktaking.

This year’s blogging has brought unexpected rewards, from finding out more about PhD practises globally, to leading a workshop for new PhD Continue reading →

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On cell porn and laser beams [12]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by rpg

As you might have gathered, I’ve got a bit of a thing going for lasers. Seeing as I’m a certified biologist—or biochemist, at least—what better way to celebrate Occam’s first birthday than by writing about a combination of the two?

On one of the many mailing lists to which I’m subscribed, there was a video of what’s po Continue reading →

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In which we down a few [14]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Jennifer Rohn

It seems like only yesterday that Nature Network, in what struck me as a bizarre fit of misplaced paranoia and pettiness, locked some of its most popular bloggers out of their own sites, preventing them from posting their own farewell messages and receiving any final comments of goodwill. Well, I for one have never looked back – and I’ve enjoyed th Continue reading →

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All Human Life is There (Happy 1st Birthday OccamT)

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Athene Donald

The first part of this statement was once the proud motto of the now deceased and unlamented News of the World. In a friendlier vein, compared with many of the ignorant witch hunts they pursued and the dirt they used to dish, I would like to think Occam’s Typewriter – and my own personal microcosm within it – similarly covers much of the Life Scien Continue reading →

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Occam’s Birthday! [33]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Happy First Birthday to Occam’s Typewriter!

And what a great first year it’s been! Having left Nature Network in July 2010, I was delighted when the December 9th, 2010 birth of our very own blogging network reunited me with my old NN friends Richard (who’s also responsible for setting up and running OT), Jenny, Stephen, Erika, Kri Continue reading →

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First Anniversary [21]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Stephen

A year ago today Occam’s Typewriter made its debut on the blogosphere and I published my first post at the new home of Reciprocal Space. It’s been a good twelve months. OT has established itself as a home thoughtful and lively writing with a great range of different voices.

I have relished the new-found freedom of being on a network tha Continue reading →

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