Author Archives: rpg

So there I am, crammed into the small cupboard under the vanity unit armed only with an adjustable spanner and a handy list of expletives (they weren’t actually that handy: with any plumbing job I find that I soon run … Continue reading →

You know, when I first came across it, I thought the Journal of Visualized Experiments was a great idea — even if I didn’t have time to watch any of it. But then they start doing things like passaging mammalian … Continue reading →

Via Ian, an aggregate of molecular movies. They are very pretty, even if slightly unrealistic (the thought of actually ‘seeing’ something at below the resolution of visible light still gives me pause). Great for teaching, or just passing the time … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago I railed against the inappropriate use of language. Certain people pooh-poohed my concern. Others agreed with me, but I retreated into my cave to lick my wounds. But it appears that I’m in good company. … Continue reading →

h1. I’ve got a huge dataset Last time I talked about networking we looked at how technology has enabled communication between scientists globally, and pondered a little on where it might take us in the future. There was a long … Continue reading →

I promised I’d let Sebastian have a guest slot here while I was in the US. So here it is. I’ve not had a great deal of time to thoroughly edit the translation from the original Spanish, but if anyone … Continue reading →

Hello Maine! I’m at a Gordon Conference. The thing about Gordon Conferences is that they’re totally confidential – I’m not allowed to publish any data from anyone else. So I can’t tell you plebes about it in anything more than … Continue reading →

So all this gumph and hoohaa over blogrolling. From my perspective (and I’m putting the ‘grumpy old man’ tag on) blogrolling is all very 2002. It’s feeding the worst of the vanity aspects of weblogging. Now, we could have a … Continue reading →

A bit of a kerfuffle in last week’s Nature. Turns out that we practising scientists are all making it up, or at least fiddling Western blots to make things look better than they are. According to some learnéd0 commentators (who … Continue reading →

My two girls (aged 8 and 11 going on 36) are playing within earshot. The eldest, just now, said “We’re both the smartest, but I’m using DNA to make dragons.” Call Social Services now. It’ll be kindest in the long … Continue reading →