One of the blogs that I try to read regularly – beyond my local microcosm of Occam’s Typewriter – is that of FemaleScienceProfessor, also known as FSP for short . You can guess I would feel a sense of shared identity with this writer, whose name and even sub-discipline I certainly don’t know. She is based in the US and writes an anonymous blog t Continue reading
As Father Ted might have explained it to Dougal, this one is very small:
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but that one is far away. Continue reading
In which the author exhibits his cheap and lazy nature by faffling around a bit, eventually buying Jenny Rohn’s latest novel “The Honest Look” via several geographically separate countries.
As crocuses push through muddy earth, the air softens on campus and the undergraduates wake up from hibernation to resume clogging up the pizza queue in the refectory, I feel the weight, yet again, of the swift passage of days and months.
It’s that time of year again: our annual staff appraisals. Being subjected to this exercise is, for me, a surr Continue reading
Thanks to Cath, for inviting me to play! I’ve followed a circuitous path through science–college major in biology, grad school, postdoc. . . Continue reading
With several days of freezing temperatures and brisk winds from the north last week, many things were blown from, or out of, neighborhood trees and shrubs. I decided to document some of the windfall that I pick up on long walks in one of my nature journals. Here is the first installment – sketches of dried crape myrtle buds (not a native sp Continue reading
As you’ll have heard on the LabLit podcast, Jenny swabbed her belly button at the Science Online conference, all in the interests of science. You can find out why from Meg Lowman’s blog on Belly Button Diversity. Now, being the gentleman I am, I’m not going to tell you what (if anything) grew there—but here’s a picture of wh Continue reading
Pro football (US version) has never seemed as fun to watch as college football, and for me, the number of rats’ arses given about even the latter has declined significantly in the last decade.
But this is one cute SuperBowl commercial, especially for sci-fi/Star Wars geeks:
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… because we aren’t at all prepared for even small amounts of snow and ice. We had freezing rain late last night, followed by less than an inch of snow overnight, but that’s enough to wreak havoc in a southern city. The university has delayed opening until noon, and I’m not sure that things will be thawed out sufficiently Continue reading
Cross-posted from Naturally Selected for added controversy.
Perhaps the most distinctive and powerful thing about Science is its tendency, or rather proclivity to ask searching, even uncomfortable questions. And unlike belief systems, or ideological and political and movements, or pseudoscience, it asks those questions of itself. There’s been Continue reading
