{"id":339,"date":"2010-03-08T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/03\/08\/on_hair\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T22:00:09","slug":"on_hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/03\/08\/on_hair\/","title":{"rendered":"On hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

M’learned Australian<\/strike> colleague, Steve ‘The Pogmeister’ Pogonowski, writes about a press release<\/a> we, eh, released today. It features a fantastic F1000 reviewer<\/a>, one Robert Sapolsky, who in addition to being able to turn out phrases such as irresistible human neuroethology study<\/a><\/em> and testosterone makes you act nicer<\/a><\/em> without breaking a sweat, sports what can only be described as a magnificent ZZ Top-style facial accoutrement. <\/p>\n

\nSteve says that the first journalist enquiries we’re getting are not about the science, but about the beard:
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\nSo I have this theory, see. Brian reckons that the private sector works harder than academics<\/a> (whispers: that might be true in his case). Benoit says that to be top of the pile in academia one has to work really quite hard<\/a>. Now, I could blog about anecdote not being the plural of data, and whether Brian’s right or Benoit’s right or I could even ask everyone at Nature Network what is their experience–but on the whole I think that would be a useless exercise and would inflame tempers unnecessarily. After all, this is Nature Network, ‘the friendliest place on the interwebs’; not somewhere else that begins with ‘S’ and ends in ‘cienceblogs’.<\/p>\n

\nInstead, I wonder if there is an association between hirsuteness and working hard\/success, in academia and the private sector. Now’s your chance: disprove this hypothesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M’learned Australian colleague, Steve ‘The Pogmeister’ Pogonowski, writes about a press release we, eh, released today. It features a fantastic F1000 reviewer, one Robert Sapolsky, who in addition to being able to turn out phrases such as irresistible human neuroethology … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f1000-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}