I spent most of last weekend and all of yesterday finalising a chapter I had been asked to contribute to an upcoming monograph on human serum albumin. Monograph is a fancy word for book in academia. And academia is a fancy word for the people who work in universities and research institutes and consider themselves smart.
Yesterday I was polishing t Continue reading
This example kindly sent in by Dr M.-T. H. of London, who found it in the lucre-driven, full-on, high-energy, 24-hour bagel-fuelled city that is New York. So exhausting they named it twice. Continue reading
The plot thickens.
For those of you who have been dangling in urgent uncertainty, I can report that the vibration problem in our incubator has not gone away. I thought I’d get around it by using smaller, non-round vessels, such as the 8-well chamber slide in the front of this image:
Today I attended an event at the British Academy to launch a pamphlet produced under the auspices of the Smith Institute, a think tank which promotes progressive policies for a fairer society and named in honour of the former Labour Party leader John Smith. This pamphlet entitled ‘Unlocking Potential – Perspectives on Women in Science, Engineering Continue reading
Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? It hardly seems possible that a year has passed since I bought my iPad. High time, I thought, for a retrospective which, I hope, will answer some of the questions that perplexed reviewers when it first came out – the main one being ‘what is it for?’ If memory serves, reviewers w Continue reading
I <3 this cartoon:
(There’s some decent advice about “How to email busy people” in the associated article, too).
I had 486 unread emails in my inbox when I came back from my holiday last week… just one of many reasons why I’m behind on almost everything else! Continue reading
This morning I read about The New College of Humanities (NCH) ; or rather before I read about the New College of the Humanities, I read alot of RTs on Twitter about the BBC article on New College of the Humanities – many of these tweets which were pretty damning of the thing.
But as Mary Beard says in her blog A Don’s Life: .
…if Continue reading
I have blogged recently about trying to distract myself from neck pain. One of the suggestions was that I drop a 7 pound hammer on my toe, but I declined to take this advice not just because it was given by Henry, but because I like to walk. That seems to be one of the few things that doesn’t hurt and sometimes even loosens up my neck a bit.
For those few of you who care about this sort of thing – and because I promised I’d keep you informed – here is an update on the ongoing conversion of the Maison des Girrafes into a Palazzo.
But first, the weather.
The weather in North Norfolk has been dry for months – the little rain we’ve had barely ranks as dewfall Continue reading
