…spare a thought for your colleagues in Bulgaria.
I had to read the fifth paragraph of this Nature News piece two or three times to make sure I’d fully understood the depth of the (alleged) problems at the Bulgarian National Science Fund:
The report claims that many of the 230 reviewers who were chosen to assess the proposals had no sc Continue reading
A story from way back in the mists of time…
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A good friend of mine had an absolutely terrible time during her PhD, worse than anyone I know: her two co-supervisors had a fight and stopped talking to each other about a year in, and that was actually the least of her worries. But she struggled through all obstacles, focuse Continue reading
I was in a minority last night, and not just because I was one of the few men at #talkfest, the third such event hosted by the Biochemical Society. Last night’s affair was addressing diversity in blogging.
I’m not going to write a meeting report, but if you weren’t there (or even if you were) you could do worse than see what Elain Continue reading
I wasn’t intending to write this post–it just came to me in a sudden flash.
Damn! Xv$$#5&&&!! That feels better. Continue reading
Just one week to go until we crown a winner, and things are looking pretty tight at the top!
Ricardipus made up some ground on first-placed Lavaland, and if I were them I’d be choosing this week’s players veeeeeery carefully indeed… either of them could win this! A series of strong weeks finally paid off for ScientistMother as she Continue reading
While walking along the beach this afternoon, Canis croxorum alerted me to this washed-up fish. It’s a pretty common North Sea fish, I believe, though I have never seen one before. Its roe sometimes appears pseudonymously as caviar. Can you identify it? Clue for molecular biologists: it’s not a zebrafish, a puffer fish, a medaka, or a h Continue reading
In the comments for my last post, J0ns1m0ns remarked that he thought the issue of mode of speaking at committee meetings was perhaps a bit of a red herring, but I fear inappropriate remarks and behaviour persist and shouldn’t, indeed mustn’t be ignored. In some senses they are the tip of an iceberg. Despite my relative seniority I am not exem Continue reading
Reading (King) Richard’s blog “Silence is Golden” that addresses his very interesting short story published on LabLit.com, I couldn’t help thinking about an issue that has been bothering me these past couple weeks. Richard’s story occurs in a “lablit” setting—but it transverses the lab and brings up a very real, imaginable and interesting little sc Continue reading
April Foolz can haz struck LinkedIn…
Things are ramping up to crazy levels again, at work and elsewhere. Deadlines, side-projects, taxes (I actually managed to file weeks before the actual Canada Revenue deadline, for once!), unconference organisation, blogging, and trying to keep up with the twists and turns of the Canadian election campaign – no wonder I feel like I neve Continue reading
