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From an email: Remember, if you are running 15N HSQCs on double labeled protein, you should use the -LABEL_CN option in the pulse program, which incorporates 13C decoupling, and will improve the look of your HSQC in the 15N dimension, … Continue reading →

Stalag Luft III Last year sometime, the University of Sydney (the SU“stainable Campus”:http://www.facilities.usyd.edu.au/projects/environ/about.shtml ) in its asymptotic wisdom started a project to completely destroy the not unpleasant (and positively Elysian compared with the building itself, above) grounds outside my lab. … Continue reading →

An email to the department this morning, sent by one of my most loyal spies, seemed innocuous enough: has anyone seen my mobile phone last left in Lift #2 In our particular ivory rather drab concrete tower our lifts are … Continue reading →

Flicking through the RSS for my favourite journal just now, I noticed that of the dozen or so crystal structure papers (out of the thirty or so new papers), two sets of authors felt it necessary to state the structural … Continue reading →

Comments are the lifeblood of blogging. If no one responds to our erudite pontifications then we may as well not bother (quiet in the cheap seats. Hang on, no, that’s wrong…). I’ve been keeping a semi-professional weblog at another place … Continue reading →

Over on the end of the Pier, Henry (or is that ‘Hunry’?) is whining about someone most of the civilized world has never heard of appearing on a British TV show, and where this might end . Maxine reckons it’s … Continue reading →

X. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT PARTS SEAL AT THESE LOCATIONS I am fascinated by the English language, especially its inherent ambiguities. This email, from staff in our media kitchen, serves to illustrate: hi everyone, there will be delays in autoclaving … Continue reading →

This patch must be applied to all H. sapiens version 1.0 immediately.

I’m a big fan of Mole . And I have to say that wriggling out of reviewing manuscripts is as reprehensible as wriggling out of jury service. If we take any pride in our vocation (or society), we have to … Continue reading →

There is an interesting discussion over at lablit.com about the use of metaphor, or rather analogy in science. Just under two years ago I gave a talk to my group about some work I’d been involved with in Cambridge (where … Continue reading →