Richard P Grant
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On peer review, part 451 (b)
I had a conversation on twitter last night with m’learned friend Nige, who runs the most ethical small business I know of. He pointed me at this blog post by Richard Smith at the BMJ, What is post publication peer … Continue reading
On diversity
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 … Continue reading
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Silence is Golden
It passed pretty much unnoticed amongst the other projects going on around here, but I wrote a short story the other week, and it’s up on LabLit: Silence is Golden. Gratifyingly, Tania Hershman asked me on Twitter whether there were … Continue reading
On health and safety gorn mad
The graduate student came running into the lab. “The centrifuge is on fire!” We’re talking quite a while ago now. The centrifuge, an old bench-top Heraeus, was a clunky old blue thing, top speed of about 5,000 rpm according to … Continue reading
Online women in science
Back in January I was in North Carolina to participate in the Borafest—that is, Science Online 2011. The main reason for going was a little project cooked up with Jenny Rohn and Karen James. To wit: we wanted to film … Continue reading
Ignobel behaviour
Without further comment.
On the hairy nature of light
One of the least strange physical phenomena is that light behaves like a wave. Some of the time, at least. (The Younger Pawn asked if she could surf on light, if it was a wave. I said only if she … Continue reading
I fought the law
Here’s number three in the penguin series. When a rival company’s toy wanders into Penguin territory, things don’t turn out so well.
On writing papers
One languid Sydney lunchtime I copied a particularly egregious paragraph from one of my co-authors and emailed it to my boss, with simply a ‘!’ for comment. A few minutes later his reply snuck sheepishly into my inbox, with the … Continue reading
