Author Archives: rpg

I managed to be the ‘plus one’ at a book launch last night, at a club in Soho. Very pleasant do it was, too, and I met some very interesting people, including the two stars of the show (Brian Cox … Continue reading →

Conflict of Interest: I’m the information architect at Faculty of 1000, as you probably know by now. As it’s Friday, and Henry Gee has admitted he is, after all, the new Stephen Fry, I thought a quick poll is in … Continue reading →

RT rpg7twit: Henry Gee, aka cromercrox: the new stephenfry ?@ @lablit Great time at the NN drinks last night, despite there being only a few regulars there; and the magnificent Pamela Ronald. Pamela said something nice about a certain “blog … Continue reading →

I have lots of stories about kit. This isn’t one of them. Now that I’m working with the results of science, rather than generating it myself, I don’t get to play much with really cool equipment (although I do seem … Continue reading →

I don’t normally have much time for videos on weblogs, but I’m making an exception for Sir Paul. Note added in proof. Oh for goodness’ sake. I can’t embed the video. It’s here. When are we getting MT4?

Never mind author contributor ID, or DOIs for articles, or whatever (I can’t be bothered looking up the links): I’m currently trying to find correct names for and de-duplicate entire journals. there must be a better way I have to … Continue reading →

What I wanted to talk about yesterday, before I got distracted, was a mix of things that came out of last Monday’s ALPSP meeting, a paper in PLoS One and this whole assessment schtick that we’ve got going on. We … Continue reading →

I was dismayed to find that Jenny had already nicked my “it’s Friday somewhere in the world”:http://network.nature.com/people/UE19877E8/blog/2009/06/19/in-which-the-gloves-come-off-–-and-on-and-off-and-on-again joke, so I had to save what I had thought would be a super Friday afternoon post for another time, and write about … Continue reading →

h3. H1N1—here it comes! “I don’t have it. See,” Sophie said, “I don’t have a curly tail.” According to the newsletter Sophie brought home, This week H1N1 (swine ‘flu) has been confirmed in four Southwark schools including a school in … Continue reading →

Expect preening. That is all.