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I sat down to write a serious entry this evening (I like to hide my serious entries on a Sunday, so they don’t garner so much “attention”:http://network.nature.com/people/rpg/blog/2008/09/14/on-depression—a-personal-perspective cough ). Unfortunately–or perhaps not, depending on your point of view–it just wasn’t … Continue reading →

A student in our lab is heading to Cambridge in a couple of weeks. I gave her the contact details of a friend and ex-colleague: In case you need a friendly face in Cambridge (actually he’s a scary face, but … Continue reading →

A friend of mine came up to me at the end of a seminar I gave a couple of months ago, and informed me that I ‘um’ed 26 times in about 20 minutes. This was a bit of a shock, … Continue reading →

Neil claims that The Australian is about the only Australian daily with a science/nature section on their website (q.v. Pamela). Coincidentally a local contact suggested I approach the Australian about running the Science Blogging Conference(s) in their ‘Higher Education’ section, … Continue reading →

Scienceblogs.com is to Nature Network as Microsoft is to Apple. You be the judge.

Tickles me, this does.

This is the third of three posts detailing my experience of the Science Blogging Conference held at the Royal Institution, London, on 30th August. You can also read Parts “one”:http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg/2008/09/11/on-science-blogging-2008—part-1 and “two”:http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg/2008/09/12/on-science-blogging-2008—part-2. —————————— Challenging assumptions In the final session of … Continue reading →

Last week was Invisible Illness Week, as I discovered from Citronella. I also found out that one of my favourite webloggers, Katie of Minor Revisions, has been taking an anti-depressant for two years. I bring this up because it is … Continue reading →

I received rather a sweet email on Friday morning: I blogged about one small aspect that came up in your most recent post – I hope you don’t think i was poaching your comments. It just needed more detail and … Continue reading →

This is the second of three posts detailing my experience of the Science Blogging Conference held at the Royal Institution, London, on 30th August. The first part is “here”:http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/rpg/2008/09/11/on-science-blogging-2008—part-1. —————————— Parallel Sessions The first three parallel sessions dealt with ‘microblogging’ … Continue reading →