Author Archives: rpg

I was quite happily day-dreaming through a student’s progress talk this afternoon, when I distinctly heard the phrase release of intracellular calcium stores Shuddering, I was wide awake, to find that my ears had not deceived me, and there, in … Continue reading →

bq. _Old worn out suits and shoes, I don’t pay no union dues_ Presented without further comment:

as up, so down.

I have been scrabbling around for recent invoices and whatnot so that I can apply for a police check certificate from ACRO0. This is so that I can get a different class of visa, and I need to do it … Continue reading →

To offset, or perhaps mesh with, the still rumbling discussion on “depression”:http://network.nature.com/people/rpg/blog/2008/09/14/on-depression—a-personal-perspective, it strikes me that there’s an obvious solution to the scientific pay “problem”:http://network.nature.com/people/UE19877E8/blog/2008/09/29/in-which-science-becomes-a-sport-–-hypothetically-speaking#comment-18378. The logical extension is that we all become enthusiastic amateurs (and a serious post on … Continue reading →

I’m an empiricist. I like to test hypotheses. Following Heather’s “suggestion”:http://network.nature.com/people/UE19877E8/blog/2008/09/29/in-which-science-becomes-a-sport-–-hypothetically-speaking#comment-18142 of using Facebook to make three updates a day, I’ve been what is essentially ‘live-blogging’ my work day. It strikes me that this is essentially Open Notebook science, but … Continue reading →

As any dad will tell you, it’s just about impossible to find adhesive that sticks glass to glass, or indeed glass to anything. This is important because small (and not so small) children invariably break small, inexpensive but emotionally attached … Continue reading →

bq. _Einstein can’t be classed as witless. He claimed atoms were the littlest. When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness Frighten everybody shitless_ “Jenny”:http://network.nature.com/people/UE19877E8/blog/2008/09/29/in-which-science-becomes-a-sport-–-hypothetically-speaking is talking about turning science into a spectator sport. Heather, I think, is volunteering to be … Continue reading →

Randall never ceases to amaze me. I wonder if he’s single?

It is evident that J.D. knows scientists, or at least the twin evils of mechanical greeblies and the funding process, quite well. I calculate that the chance of getting the LHC fully operational is about one in 160. Perhaps Bob … Continue reading →