Author Archives: Stephen

Science and the importance of cheese

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Stephen

Week two of “I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here!” is now upon me. This week the evictions start, so the competition is hotting up. I had meant to get around to writing a blog-post about week one, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Scientific Life | 43 Comments

Before the Deluge

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Stephen

It starts tomorrow. The floodgates will open and will not close again for two whole weeks. I mean of course that “I’m a scientist, get me out of here!” starts tomorrow morning. I have signed up to submit myself for … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication | 18 Comments

Inflation

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Stephen

This is, to my mind, a quite astonishing report about Nature Publishing Group (NPG) hiking its proposed 2011 journal subscription charges to the University of California (UC) by 400%. (NPG is the company that runs the Nature Network blogging platform). … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Access, Scientific Life | 71 Comments

Something for the weekend

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Stephen

Wunderkind of audiovisual media that I am, I confess to being rather late in getting around to this one. Even I hesitated at the narcissistic self-absorption of it. But as a blogger, I must learn to overcome such hesitations. Here, … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Science | 11 Comments

A MAD day

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Stephen

This is a quick one. The internet’s not working terribly reliably at home so, in case you missed it on Twitter, Facebook or Friendfeed, here is a short film about what myself and some of my group got up to … Continue reading →

Posted in Protein Crystallography, Scientific Life | 18 Comments

I’m a scientist and the Boomtown Rats are here

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Stephen

Confused by the title? I’m not surprised. I’m a little confused myself. Though this is a common experience in science and nothing to be ashamed of. I was thinking about the Boomtown Rats since I was using their celebrated second … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Music | 5 Comments

Thunderbirds are go!

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Stephen

I saw this and thought of you… …Steffi.

Posted in Fun | 10 Comments

I’m a scientist, get me out of here!

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Stephen

Ha, this’ll make you laugh. Having spent my last blogpost in wistful reflection on the endless judgements that I find myself subjected to as a working scientist, I have just signed up–quite voluntarily, of my own free will and with … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Fun | 20 Comments

Judgement Days

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Stephen

When I die and am laid in my grave and my soul ascends to the Pearly Gates and the Supreme Being peers at me over half-moon glasses and declares, “Well Stephen, it’s Judgement Day”, I will look him in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Scientific Life | 36 Comments

Making Movies

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Stephen

For three days last week I was at the EMBL in Heidelberg taking a fantastic course on data visualisation. As is often the way with scientific training, the course was intense: lectures and practicals from 9 in the morning till … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun, Protein Crystallography | 13 Comments

Ceci n’est pas un blogpost

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Stephen

Load. Aim. Fire!!!!! Grant application submitted. Who knows what will happen? If you feel moved to comment, please do so randomly. I’m all out of evidence and logic.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 42 Comments