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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 →

Here in Australia we’re (nearly) on the end of a long, damp piece of string, internet-wise. (The actual end is occupied by New Zealand, which is a terrible place and why anyone would want to live there is beyond me). … Continue reading →

You know those stereo images so belovéd of structural-type people? The ones you get in journals where you’re supposed to be able to squint somehow and see it in 3-D? I’ve never been able to pull off that trick. Never … Continue reading →

There is something deeply, deeply wrong with the advert that keeps appearing to the right of your erudite discourse: Please, in the name of all that’s holy, make it stop. Look, I’ll even buy something from Eppendorf if only they … Continue reading →

When does a piece of knowledge become so widespread, so known (self-evident?) that it no longer needs to be cited? I’m trying to find a reference for Le Chatelier’s Principle. Any clues?